Wrocław–Copernicus Airport
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The Nicolaus Copernicus Airport Wrocław ( WRO IATA Code, ICAO Code EPWR ) is the international airport in the Polish city of Wrocław (Breslau). It is located west of downtown. In 2011, a total of 1,656,709 passengers were handled.
Use
Today, the Wroclaw airport to Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and Katowice, the main commercial airport in Poland and is used because of its favorable location of charter companies numerous tourism companies such as TUI, scan Holiday, Ítaka, Triada, Open Travel, Neckermann, as well as by Deutsche Lufthansa.
Launch aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 737 or an Airbus A320 and landed periodically. Several airlines run scheduled flights to destinations in Europe by. Moreover, even several charter flights from a wide variety of tour operators and airlines are offered.
In order to meet future developments, an expansion of the terminal for seven million passengers per year and an extension of the runway to 3,000 meters is planned.
The airport has, since 1999, a cargo terminal.
History
(: Strachowice Polish) created in the Municipality of Wrocław Fabryczna for the Air Force in the 1930s, the airfield Wroclaw Nice garden was at this point. After the war, the operations were temporarily relocated to Gadow Maly. With the addition of a concrete runway in the 1950s, he served from 1958 again as a regional airport for civil aviation with regular connections to Warsaw, Krakow and Rzeszow.
After a feasibility study in the early 1990s the company Airconsult from Frankfurt am Main, the Province of Lower Silesia and the city of Wroclaw (AG Wroclaw Airport ) cried in January 1992 jointly Port Lotniczy Wrocław SA launched with the aim of upgrading Strachowitz to an international commercial airport.
In August 1992, the new passenger terminal was inaugurated in December the company was awarded the operating license and January 1993, the flight operation itself from the state enterprise Polish Airports passed. The first international flight connection Breslau-Frankfurt/Main was set up in the same month. As a result, the airport was expanded. On 6 December 2005, the designation of the airport after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was.
The terminal, which handles domestic and international flights, nudged the possible capacity limits. With a newly opened in March 2008 terminal has a capacity of 1.28 million passengers were allowed. This expansion was necessary, among other things, to meet requirements of the Schengen Agreement in relation to the existing terminals.
In the summer of 2009 already started one and a half kilometers to the west with the construction of a completely new terminal with associated apron. These were one of the most important investments in the European Football Championship in 2012. The airport will be capable with the put into operation in March 2012 Terminal least 3.3 million passengers per year and has to Warsaw as the country's second airport on passenger bridges. In addition, the roads connecting the airport with the city center were expanded to four lanes.