Almost 1.9 million passengers at Gdansk Airport in 2022

In the six months of 2022, there were 1,849,951 passengers at Gdansk Airport. This is a staggering 375.8 per cent more than in the same period of 2021, and 25 per cent less than in the record year of 2019, when there were 5.4 million travellers in total. In June 2022, there were only 10.6% fewer visitors than in June 2019.

"If in June this year we handled only about 10% fewer passengers than in the record-breaking year 2019, it means that we are coming out on top. After these results, we can expect to have around 4.5 million passengers at the end of the year," said Tomasz Kloskowski, President of Lech Walesa Gdansk Airport. 

"We are particularly pleased with the growth of Ryanair, which has over 62% more passengers than in pre-pandemic 2019, and we also have growth in domestic connections. This traffic has increased by almost 20% compared to 2019. We have Warsaw, Cracow, Wrocław, Lublin, Zielona Góra and Rzeszów, we have practically the whole of Poland," added Tomasz Kloskowski. 

The most popular flights in 2022 were to London (160,236 passengers), Oslo (134,742) and Stockholm (105,252). 

In the first half of 2022, Gdansk Airport recorded 19,416 flight operations, this is 119.2 per cent more than in the period from January to June 2021. 5,197,480 kilograms of cargo and courier shipments were handled (19 per cent more year-over-year). 

In the period from January to the end of June 2022, Gdansk Airport generated a net profit of PLN 13,885,000. For comparison, in the first six months of the previous year there was a minus PLN 11,676,000 loss. The result from sales in the six months of 2022 is PLN 12,340,000. 

"It is for the first time in almost three years that we have started to make profit, we have a positive result on sales, which is our core business. We are returning to the good old days of company profitability," commented Tomasz Kloskowski. 

As early as this autumn, from November, it will be possible to fly charter flights by dreamliner to exotic holidays with Rainbow to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Cuba and Thailand. For the first time in the airport's history, such flights will be possible directly from Gdansk. On Fridays, dreamliners will fly to the Dominican Republic, on Saturdays to Mexico, on Sundays to Thailand and on Thursdays to Cuba. 

In the offer of exotic flights, the Itaka Travel Agency proposes connections from Gdansk to Zanzibar. It will take off as early as 25 December 2022. 

This year's network of regular connections from Gdansk looks optimistic. Gdansk Airport has a network of 89 connections, to 72 airports, to 22 countries, (including Poland), operated by 10 airlines.