Already more than one million passengers in 2021 at Gdansk Airport

Gdansk Airport welcomed 362,256 passengers in August, more than half as many as last year and just over a third fewer than in the record-breaking 2019. The largest number of people arrived and departed from Gdansk on Sunday 15th August, totalling 14,060. Air operations in August 2021 were almost 20% more than in the same period of 2020, and over 20% less than in 2019.
 
As a consequence of a great August in terms of air traffic, as well as good earlier summer months, Gdansk Airport has already recorded 1,061,267 passengers in 2021.

„This is fantastic news for us, our employees and the companies cooperating with us, but most of all the airlines which fly from Gdansk. It proves that passengers are willing to travel and choose our airport. We have cracked the first million and we are going for more. We are of course aware of the risks arising mainly from the risk of the spread of the fourth wave of Covid-19, but we hope that the scale of inoculation of Poles and Europeans will not stop them from travelling" – said Tomasz Kloskowski, the President of Lech Walesa Gdansk Airport. 

Passengers in August 2021 were most likely to choose flights from Gdansk to London, Oslo and Stockholm. 

TOP 5 destinations in the regular traffic: 
1. London 27,640 passengers
2. Oslo 22,276 passengers
3. Stockholm 16,990 passengers 
4. Amsterdam 14,609 passengers
5. Warsaw 11,472 passengers

Charter traffic is developing well. In August 2021 there were over 235% more charter passengers than last year. Take-offs and landings of charter airlines were twice as many as in 2020. Most tourists flew to Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. 

TOP 3 charter destinations:
Turkey 17,597 passengers 
Greece 13,060 passengers
Bulgaria 5,193 passengers

The load factor data, i.e. the passenger load on individual aircraft, also looked optimistic. In August, the Swiss line to Zurich had an average of over 90% of seats occupied on each plane. Similar figures were recorded by LOT airlines on flights to the Greek island of Kos, Ryanair on flights to Dublin and Wizz Air on flights to Barcelona and Alesund. 

In 2021, Gdansk Airport has a network of 91 connections, to 23 countries (including Poland), to 76 airports, operated by 8 carriers.

Network 2021 
Ryanair: Aarhus, Alicante, Barcelona-Reus, Belfast, Billund, Birmingham, Bristol, Burgas, Chania/Crete, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Goteborg, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Korfu, Kiev-Boryspil, Cracow, Leeds-Bradford, London-Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Milan-Bergamo, Newcastle, Odessa, Oslo-Torp, Pafos, Paris-Beauvais, Piza, Santorini, Stockholm-Skavsta, Vaxjo, Valencia, Vienna, Wroclaw, Zadar; 
Wizz Air: Aberdeen, Alesund, Baracelona El-Prat, Bergen, Billund, Bodo, Burgas, Khakov, Doncaster-Sheffield, Dortmund, Heraklion/Crete, Goteborg, Edinburg, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Haugesung, Cologne-Bonn, Kiev-Zhuliany, Kutaisi, Larnaka, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lviv, Malmo, Milan-Bergamo, Molde, Mykonos, Narvik, Odessa, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Santorini, Split, Stavanger, Skelleftea, Stockholm -Skavsta, Tromso, Trondheim, Turku; 
LOT: Burgas, Cracow, Lublin, Rhodos, Rzeszów, Tirana, Warsaw; 
Amsterdam KLM; Copenhagen SAS; Frankfurt, Munich Lufthansa, Dusseldorf Eurowings, Zurich SWISS