Passengers return to flying 

Gdansk Airport has served 388 846 passengers over six months. “The figures of passengers who visited our Airport over six months of 2021 are lower than the figures for the same period in the previous year and much lower than the record-breaking figures in 2019, however, the apparent growth tendency is most important. Passengers are coming back to us, they want to fly and they fly abroad and also on the domestic routes. They fly to work, friends and their families and, recently, most often for holidays. We believe that there will be more and more passengers. Travelling continues to be not easy, in spite of introducing the EU Covid Certificate. The more do we appreciate the fact that more and more people are deciding to travel” - said Tomasz Kloskowski, President of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport.

Covid procedures, including passport control and quarantine and tests verification extend the passengers service time at many airports, including Gdansk Airport. “We are aware of these inconveniences. We are working on the completion of the passenger terminal extension and conversion project. In order to improve the passengers’ service comfort, we commissioned two new luggage carousels in the arrival hall which are on the borderline between the old and new part of the building still many months before the completion of the extension project. This will facilitate the luggage operations, discharge the blockages remarkably and shorten the luggage pickup waiting time after the arrival to Gdansk, which is crucial by the growing air traffic, especially tourist and vacation flying” - assured Tomasz Kloskowski, President of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport.

The increasing number of passengers in Gdansk is followed by the growing number of flight operations. There were 8 858 in total in 2021, only by 23.8 % less than in the year before. The results in goods service are cheering up. As long as the cargo revenues constitute only 1.5% of the company revenues, still, we have managed to serve 4 367 tons of consignments, by 37.6% more than in the same period in the previous year. After six months of 2021 Gdansk Airport has recorded not more than slightly over PLN 12 million net loss (12 004 000).

As the loss itself is never a good news for an enterprise, still, it is worth emphasizing that it did not increase in the second quarter. The loss for the first quarter of 2021 was PLN 12 221 000. There are 91 connections from Gdansk to 77 airports, 22 countries (including Polish cities) in this year Network. New connections have appeared in the first half of 2021: to Heraklion and Chania and to Santorini in Greece, to Split and Zadar in Croatia, to Burgas in Bulgaria and to Lublin in Poland.

Whole 2021 network 
Ryanair: Aarhus, Alicante, Barcelona-Reus, Belfast, Billund, Birmingham, Bristol, Burgas, Chania/Crete, Dublin, Edinburgh, Goteborg, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Korfu, Kiev-Borispol, Cracow, Leeds-Bradford, London-Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Milan-Bergamo, Newcastle, Odessa, Oslo-Torp, Pafos, Pisa, Santorini, Stockholm-Skavsta, Vaxjo, Valentia, Wroclaw, Zadar; 
Wizz Air: Aberdeen, Alesund, Baracelona El-Prat, Bergen, Billund, Bodo, Burgas, Kharkov, Doncaster-Sheffield, Dortmund, Heraklion/Crete, Goteborg, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Hamburg, Haugesung, Cologne-Bonn, Kiev-Zhulyany, Kristiansand, Kutaisi, Larnaka, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Lviv, Malaga, 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, Rzeszów, Tirana, Warsaw; 
London-Heathrow British Airways; Amsterdam KLM; Copenhagen SAS; Frankfurt, Munich Lufthansa; Dusseldorf Eurowings; Zurich SWISS; Helsinki Finnair.