Gdansk Airport coming back to normality

907 618 passengers have been served by Gdansk Airport within six months. It is by 63.1% less than in the comparable record breaking period last year. Also the number of airline operations has reduced, there were 11 628 of them, by 49.2 % less than in the first half of 2019.

„Our results meet our expectations. We have not been operating the international scheduled air routes for the whole quarter of the year, and domestic ones for two and a half months. This decrease is therefore a natural consequence of coronavirus epidemic and of almost total grounding of the passenger traffic. Luckily, this traffic has been successively increasing since June and the first results are optimistic, especially, that they are better in Gdansk than in any other big Polish airports.  While observing the statistics, I can see that the United Kingdom and Ireland have been reviving excellently, including London Luton, London Gatwick, London Stanstead, Manchester and Dublin where each aircraft carries 150 people. Also the routes to the northern Italy are recovering dynamically, 145 people travel to Milano-Bergamo. Passengers miss vacations and sun, therefore, each aircraft to Athens and Bourgas carries about  140 people. The routes to Eindhoven and Paris-Beauvais are occupied sensationally.

These good news are complemented by KLM’s changing the aircraft to a bigger one on the route to Amsterdam. The 88-seat airplane was not sufficient to accommodate all the passengers willing to travel on this route. I suspect that Lufthansa will do the same on the route to Munich where the rate of seats occupation on the aircraft reaches 90%” - said Tomasz Kloskowski, the President of Lech Walesa Airport in Gdansk. 

Gdansk Airport has served 18 226 passengers and performed 1 141 air operations in June. Domestic flights operated by LOT Polish Airlines have been launched since June 1st, and since the half of June the international traffic has been restarted. 

The smallest drop, by 8.7%, in the first six months of 2020 was observed by Gdansk Airport in terms of cargo services, that is in the transport of goods and post. The cargo airplanes could fly without limitations during the coronavirus epidemic. The traffic was, however, smaller than before the epidemic as the parcels could not be cleared for scheduled routes  and a big number of companies was not working.

Also the second quarter affected almost totally by the epidemic has influenced the financial mid-year results of Gdansk Airport. We have recorded a PLN 6.5 million loss for this period. “The drops in the most significant air traffic categories had to reflect in our financial results. Our gains will grow together with the revival of the air traffic, and, additionally, we will save in order to overcome these difficult times.  The resuming air traffic allows, however, to see the future in brighter colours. Therefore, we encourage everybody to fly as the airplane continues to be the safest means of transport which will carry us to places we are particularly longing for in the recent times safely and in no time at all - said Tomasz Kloskowski.

Gdansk Airport has been regaining its position as from before the pandemic. The airlines resume connections almost every day, and, what is more, announce new destinations, including many holiday targets. There are over 20 places in the flight network to which you can fly from Gdansk for your summer holiday or a weekend break at a discount price. The offer includes Greek destinations such as Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalamata, Corfu, Rhodes, Mykonos and Chania and Heraklion on Crete. In Croatia it is Dubrovnik, Split and Zadar, in Spain Barcelona, Alicante and Majorca, in Cyprus Larnaca and Paphos, in Italy Rome, Milano and Pisa, there is Malta, Burgas in Bulgaria, Odessa in Ukraine and Tirana in Albania.  

The current flight network from Gdansk:

Aarhus, Alicante, Athens, Belfast, Billund, Birmingham, Bristol, Burgas, Cork, Dublin, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Goteborg, Kalamata, Kiev -Borispol, Cracow, Leeds-Bradford, London-Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Milano-Bergamo, Newcastle, Odessa, Oslo-Torp, Paphos, Pisa, Stockholm–Skavsta, Vienna; Ryanair 
Aberdeen, Aalesund, Barcelona-El Prat, Bari, Bergen, Billund, Bodo, Charkov, Doncaster-Sheffield, Dortmund, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Goteborg, Hamburg, Haugesund, Kiev-Zhuliany, Collogne-Bonn, Kristiansand, Larnaca, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lvov, Malmo, Milano-Bergamo,  Molde, Mykonos, Odessa, Oslo-Gardermoen, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Stavanger, Stockholm-Skavsta, Tromso, Trondheim, Turku, Zaporizhia; Wizz Air 
Cracow, Rzeszów, Warsaw, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Rome, Thessaloniki, Rhodes, Corfu, Chania, Burgas, Tirana, Barcelona-El Prat; LOT 
Amsterdam KLM, Copenhagen SAS; Frankfurt, Munich Lufthansa; Oslo Norwegian;