Central Communication Port Centralny Port Komunikacyjny | |
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| Summary | |
| Airport type | Public |
| Operator | Centralny Port Komunikacyjny Sp. z o.o. |
| Serves | Warsaw |
| Location | Gmina Baranów, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Mazovia |
| Opened | Not before 2032 if decision made to go ahead with construction[1] |
| Hub for | LOT Polish Airlines |
| Coordinates | 52°08′00″N 20°29′00″E / 52.1333°N 20.4833°E |
| Website | https://www.cpk.pl/en/ |
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  Central Communication Port Location of airport in Poland | |
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The Central Communication Port (Polish: Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, CPK) is a megaproject of the government of Poland aimed at the construction of a new, built-from-scratch airport to be located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Warsaw, as well as a new nationwide high-speed rail and controlled-access highway network linking the CPK to much of the rest of the country. The opening of the CPK airport would not mean that Warsaw Chopin Airport would be closed; no official decision has yet been made.[2]
Currently, the planned date of the airport opening is 2032 at the earliest, if the construction goes ahead.[1] At first the airport is to have two runways (4,000 m × 45 m), but eventually four. The combined airport and train station is planned to serve 40 million passengers per year - double the size of Berlin Brandenburg Airport - with the long-term goal of about 100 million passengers per year. Planned train connections will take 15 minutes to Warsaw Central railway station, 25 minutes to Łódź Fabryczna railway station, and 2 hours to most other major Polish cities, such as Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and Gdańsk.[3] The construction of a high-speed train to Frankfurt (Oder) is also planned, which is to shorten the travel time on the Berlin-CPK route to under 3.5 hours. After the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, the winning October 15 Coalition pledged to re-examine the plans for the airport;[4] in June 2024, the coalition government confirmed that the airport element of the project would continue.[5]
- ^ a b "Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe". The Economist. May 2, 2024. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
- ^ "Chopin Airport would not be closed".
- ^ "Mikołaj Wild: W 25 minut z Łodzi do CPK". rynek-lotniczy.pl. 2018-09-28. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ "Targi o CPK po wyborach. Centralne megalotnisko w zawieszeniu, a szybką kolej czekają cięcia" (in Polish). wyborcza.pl. 2023-10-24. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ Tilles, Daniel (26 June 2024). "Tusk confirms previous government's "mega-airport" project will continue". Notes from Poland. Retrieved 27 June 2024.