Katowice International Airport

Katowice International Airport (Polish: Międzynarodowy Port Lotniczy Katowice-Pyrzowice) (IATA: KTW, ICAO: EPKT) is an international airport located in Pyrzowice, 30 km north of the Katowice city centre, in Poland.

The airport features two passenger terminals A and B (completed in 2007) and a cargo terminal. Its concrete runway is 2,799 m long and 59 m wide and can accommodate any Boeing 747 or Boeing 777, albeit not at MTOW.^[1] Heavy transports such as An-124 or An-225 are sometimes seen here.

Airlines and destinations

• Centralwings (Dublin, Edinburgh, Rhodes, Shannon)
• LOT Polish Airlines (Munich, Turin, Warsaw)
  • operated by EuroLOT (Warsaw)
  • operated by Jet Air (Warsaw [ends 7 November 2007])
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
  • operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf)
  • operated by Eurowings (Düsseldorf)
• Ryanair (Bristol [begins 10 November 2007], Dublin [begins in November 2007])
• Wizz Air (Athens, Barcelona/Girona, Belfast-International, Bourgas, Bournemouth, Brussels/Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Coventry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Frankfurt-Hahn, Glasgow-Prestwick, Heraklion, Liverpool, London-Gatwick [begins 31 January 2008], London-Luton, London-Stansted, Malmö, Milan/Bergamo-Orio al Serio, Oslo/Sandefjord-Torp, Paris/Beauvais-Tillé, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta)

Terminals

Observation deck inside Terminal B at the Katowice International Airport

Terminal B - lobby seen from upper level

Waiting room in terminal A

In the summer of 2007, Terminal B was open for arriving and departing passengers. The terminal has the biggest observation deck in all of Poland.

Together with the older Terminal A, the new terminal increased the airport's capacity to 3.6 mln passengers a year.

See also

• Katowice-Muchowiec Airport

References

External links

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Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport

• Official Katowice airport website (English) (German) (French) (Czech) (Ukrainian) (Polish)
• World Aero Data airport information for EPKT

Airports of Poland

Bydgoszcz Ignacy Jan Paderewski Airport (BZG) • Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN) • Katowice International Airport (KTW) • John Paul II International Airport Kraków-Balice (KRK) • Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ) • Poznań-Ławica Airport (POZ) • Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport (RZE) • Szczecin-Goleniów "Solidarność" Airport (SZZ) • Szczytno-Szymany International Airport (SZY) • Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport (WAW) • Copernicus Airport Wrocław (WRO) • Zielona Góra Airport (IEG)

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