Zielona Góra Airport () is a regional airport in the

Zielona Góra Zielona Góra (; ''Green Mountain''; ) is the largest city in Lubusz Voivodeship, located in western Poland, with 140,403 inhabitants (). The region is closely associated with vineyards and holds an annual Zielona Góra Wine Fest, Wine Fest. Zie ...

urban area (the Lubusian Tri-city) in western

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. The airport is from

Sulechów Sulechów (pronounced , ) is a town located within the Zielona Góra County, in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the administrative seat of the Gmina Sulechów. Established in the Middle Ages, the town features many historical monuments ...

, northeast of the Zielona Góra city centre, in the village of Kramsko, near the town of

Babimost Babimost () is a town in Zielona Góra County, Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the administrative seat of Gmina Babimost. Babimost has an area of , and as of June 2022 it has a population of 3,848. Geography The town is situated on the ...

, west of

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, east of the

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border, and from

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. Its

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consists of the three million inhabitants of

Lubusz Land Lubusz Land (; ) is a historical region and cultural landscape in Poland and Germany on both sides of the Oder river. Originally the settlement area of the Lechites, the swampy area was located east of Margraviate of Brandenburg, Brandenburg and ...

(Ziemia Lubuska) and the west of

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(Wielkopolska). The airport is Poland's 14th-busiest, in last place among current airports with scheduled traffic. It has been taken over from the Polish Army by regional authorities and is run by the state-owned Porty Lotnicze (PPL), which also operates

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. Discussion exists about whether a company created by regional authorities should assume management of the unprofitable airport.

History

Construction of Zielona Góra Airport (a former military base) began in 1954, and it entered service on 10 October 1957. A Lim-6R, which is a Polish built

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is parked adjacent to the terminal, commemorating the airport's military origin. Although the first passenger terminal opened in 1977, at least one passenger flight had already operated from the airport (on 21 July 1961, bringing

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to Zielona Góra). The airport began service to and from

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and

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in 1977; the first scheduled flights were twice weekly to Warsaw, and the Gdańsk route operated during the 1970s. It hosted twice-daily passenger service to Warsaw until September 2004, when state-owned

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discontinued the route after ownership changes at the airport. The army stopped using it as a military base, and dismantled some of its equipment. The airport was rented to regional authorities in 2005, so its new owner could begin developing the airport. Shifts in the Polish airline market caused financial problems for LOT, and service to Warsaw was suspended because the airline could not obtain suitable mid-sized aircraft for the route. At the end of 2005, two daily flights to Warsaw were operated by Jet Air; this was later reduced to one. The airport has had short-lived scheduled routes to Gdańsk, Kraków, and Dresden, and service to Warsaw operated via Poznań or Bydgoszcz. It operated charter service to southern Europe and Ukraine during the mid-2010s. In January 2017, it was announced that the airport's only scheduled route (to

) would be transferred from SprintAir to LOT. In December 2022 renderings of a new terminal building were published by an architect studio that won public tendering for the project.

Infrastructure

Runway

Zielona Góra Airport has a single asphalt-concrete 06/24 runway. The , runway is equipped with an ILS CAT I, allowing aircraft to land in foggy weather. The airport's elevation is . Its runway has two taxiways leading to two

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, where up to 10 mid-sized aircraft (such as Boeing 737s or Airbus 321s) may be parked; an additional apron is used in winter for the de-icing of aircraft.

Terminals

The airport has two passenger terminals (T1 and T2); only T2 is fully functional. T1, built in 1977, has an annual capacity of 150,000 and is used for departures. T2 (built in 2015) is used for arrivals and charter service, and has no check-in or other services. T1 has two check-in desks, basic luggage transport, and a medium-sized departure area with one or two gates. After the completion of the new arrival area, the airport's annual capacity was estimated at 360,000 passengers. A small cargo terminal is next to T1.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines have regular scheduled and charter services to and from Zielona Góra: The nearest larger international airport is

Poznań–Ławica Airport Poznań–Ławica Henryk Wieniawski Airport , built in 1913, is one of the oldest airports in Poland. It is located west of Poznań city centre. It takes its name from the neighborhood of Ławica, part of the city's Poznań–Grunwald, Grunwald d ...

, about east.

Statistics

Annual traffic

Ground transportation

Road

The airport is located close to a junction between motorway A2 (Berlin-Warsaw) and expressway S3. Buses operate between Zielona Góra and the airport, according to flight departure and arrival times to and from Warsaw, from the main bus station (Dworzec PKS).

Rail

The nearest railway station to the airport is located in the town of

some from the airport, which itself does not have a station. A section of Zielona Góra to

line is currently undergoing renovation and a temporary bus service is in place until the end of the modernisation, which is expected at the end of 2022.

References

External links

Official website
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