Lodz Airport Central Poland , formerly known as ''Łódź-Lublinek Airport'', is a regional

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in central

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, located approximately southwest of

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city center. Łódź ranked 8th among Polish airports in 2013 in passenger numbers. The airport has been in operation since 13 September 1925 and has recently undergone a number of upgrades, enabling it to handle services by low cost airlines to destinations in

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History

Early years

Łódź Airport opened on 13 September 1925. During

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, the German occupying forces improved the airport for military use, by building a concrete runway. In the immediate postwar years, the airport was a key transport hub, but that role diminished by the 1950s with the development of Warsaw airport. By the end of the decade, regular passenger connections to Łódź were suspended.

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, p. 74. Efforts to restart passenger traffic were undertaken in the 1990s. In 1997, a new passenger terminal (capacity approx. 50,000/year) was opened. Since 1997, ''Port Lotniczy Łódź-Lublinek sp. z o.o.'' (''Lodz-Lublinek Airport LLC'') has been the operator of the airport, changing its name in 2007 to ''Port Lotniczy Łódź im. Władysława Reymonta Sp. z o.o.'' (''LODZ WLADYSLAW REYMONT AIRPORT LLC'').

Development since the 2000s

On 31 October 2002, an ILS/DME System ( instrument landing system/

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) was installed at the airport. In September 2005, the runway was extended from to in order to accommodate larger aircraft, such as the

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. On 28 October 2005, a new passenger terminal, Terminal 2 (capacity approx. about 300,000/year) was opened. Two days later, the first Boeing 737 in the history of the Łódź Airport landed. On 19 January 2007, the runway extension to was put into use. In June 2012, the brand new Terminal 3 with a capacity for 1.5–2 million passengers per year was opened. The capacity is more than 5 times that of the old terminal. Terminal 2 was dismantled and sold to Radom for their new airport. The airport has been renamed after the celebrated 20th century Polish writer and the winner of the 1924

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, Władysław Reymont. After the A2 motorway between Łódź and Warsaw opened in 2012, which reduced the travel time between the two cities to about one hour, the Łódź airport has faced tougher competition from the two Warsaw airports ( Warsaw Chopin and Warsaw-Modlin). As a consequence, the number of passengers using it has fallen. The airport no longer has any domestic destinations since the

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in July 2012, which had also planned a number of international services. Due to low passengers numbers, Łódź Airport has been cited as an example of inefficient use of EU subsidies. In October 2019,

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terminated their short-lived route to

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Airlines and destinations

Statistics

References

Bibliography

External links

Official website of Łódź Airport

Official website of Łódź Airport

Lotnisko dla Łodzi Association (The ''Airport for Łódź'' Association)
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