The President of Gdansk Airport about the overall situation in the industry

„I am an optimist and I believe that in three years we will be back to the level as before the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. It will not take any longer. I am pleased to see how the governments in particular states, the European Commission, but also the scientists start to draw conclusions from what had happened, to learn about COVID and arrange the world and our lives in a more orderly manner. The European Commission wants to exhort the EU states to apply the same criteria while taking decisions on closing and opening their borders. We have a huge chaos now, people are confused whether they will be able to fly or not, whether they will be let in to a country or put to quarantine. Any passenger will withhold his or her decision on flying in such circumstances” - says Tomasz Kloskowski. 

„I am convinced that the confidence in flying will be growing. Furthermore, if we calm down the situations in all the fields, including medical, economic, political and media area, in the period from this fall until spring, then all the airports will start marching forward and in three years we will achieve the results as at the time before the pandemic”.

„All the airports and airlines in Poland, Europe and all the world are in trouble. No one has remained unaffected by the crisis. As far as Gdansk Airport is concerned, the situation is stable to the extent that we are not endangered by bankruptcy or loss of our financial liquidity. Our last results have shown that people are coming back to normality and to flying. We had 80 thousand more passengers in August than in July. We have to work normally and aviation is an element of the industry that operates normally. People fly to work abroad because they have to, they fly for vacation and to visit persons they have not seen for several months. The international tourist traffic, however, has not returned. There are not so many foreign tourists as in the previous years, there are no business trips, conferences or fairs” - said Tomasz Kloskowski, the President of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport