The number of handled passengers increased despite a 1.1 percent decrease in the number of flight operations. In October 2011, 12,500 operations were performed, which is 100 fewer compared to October of last year. According to preliminary data, a total of 8.07 million passengers were handled at the airport during the first ten months of the current year – which is 7.8 percent more than in the same period of the previous year. A very high growth rate is still being recorded in domestic traffic. Since the beginning of the year, 906,000 people have been handled in this segment (an increase of 18.9 percent). In international traffic, 7.16 million people have been handled since the beginning of the year (an increase of 6.5 percent).
Chopin Airport is the largest airport in Poland. It handles scheduled, charter, and cargo traffic. In 2010, over 8.7 million passengers used the airport’s services, which is nearly 43 percent of the total passenger traffic in Poland. Almost 140,000 flight operations are performed at Chopin Airport annually.