WORK will start in September on a new mega airport which will take on major hubs like London Heathrow and Dubai.
When fully operational, it’s expected to have as many as 60million passengers every year.
The airport called Port Polska, formerly Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, will be one one of the biggest in Europe once fully built.
Designs for the Polish terminal by Foster + Partners (behind projects such as Crossrail Place Canary Wharf and other major airports) and and Buro Happold were accepted in late-2025.
Now, Budimex has been contracted to start the work on its foundations which will start in September of this year.
This initial work is expected to be completed in 2027 at the cost of £28.6million.
The entire project is expected to be built for £27billion.
It’s been said that the ‘infrastructure will make it the most modern airport in Central Europe‘.
Port Polska is scheduled to open in 2032 with two runways and capacity for more than 300,000 flights each year.
It will have just one passenger terminal which will cover 450,000m2.
This means it will be almost three times the size of nearby Warsaw Chopin Airport’s passenger terminal.
The terminal at Port Polska will be across three levels.
Level two will be where travellers will find the ticket and baggage check-in, security control, arrivals and departures for the Schengen zone.
Level one will be where most of the arrivals and departures for the Non-Schengen zone, transfer centres and passport control.
Level zero will have coach gates for both Schengen and non-Schengen zones, baggage reclaim and an arrivals hall.
Initially, it will have two runways, but there are plans to expand with a third runway in the future, and even a fourth.
The project includes plans for over a thousand miles of new high-speed railway.
According to the schedule, the airport’s railway station will be completed by 2029.
In its first stage, Port Polska Airport is expected to handle up to 11,000 passengers per hour, and up to 34million per year.
By 2040, the airport could see over 60million passengers per year.
In comparison, 84.5million passengers travel through London Heathrow Airport each year.
Meanwhile, Dubai International Airport (DXB) handled a record-breaking 95.2 million passengers last year.
The airport was initially set to be called Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, or CPK.
In December last year, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the name had been changed: “We won’t be using a name that our predecessors discredited.
“Everyone who lands there, everyone who uses this airport, everyone who shops there should know: yes—this is the heart of Europe, yes—this is Port Polska.”