Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport ushered in the 2025/-26 winter timetable on Sunday, 26 October, adding a record-setting range of 131 regular destinations. Flag-carrier LOT Polish Airlines leads the expansion with new twice-weekly services to Marrakesh (launch 29 Oct), Rovaniemi, Malaga and Stavanger. The low-cost rivals Ryanair and Wizz Air have responded aggressively, opening flights to Porto (inaugural rotation operated on 26 Oct), Leeds, Seville and Agadir.
Airport operator PPL said the enlarged network is designed around the needs of corporate travellers who demand direct links to secondary European business hubs and North-African growth markets. LOT’s Marrakesh and Malaga routes give exporters and Polish construction firms faster access to Morocco and southern Spain, while the Porto link targets Poland’s thriving IT-services trade with Portugal. New Nordic flights to Stavanger and Rovaniemi strengthen oil-and-gas field connectivity and winter incentive travel, respectively.
The winter build-out caps a record summer in which Chopin handled 13.4 million passengers, 7 % above 2024. Capacity growth is being supported by the airport’s pier-south refurbishment, completed in early October, which adds four contact gates sized for Boeing 787s. LOT says the gate expansion was a prerequisite for launching the Marrakesh route with its B787-8s configured for a premium-heavy cabin popular with consulting and energy clients.
Travel-management companies (TMCs) forecast seat prices on legacy city-pairs such as Warsaw–London and Warsaw–Paris to soften by 3-5 % as fresh capacity enters the market. HR mobility managers are being advised to review travel policies for employees commuting between Poland and the Iberian Peninsula, where direct links were previously dominated by low-cost carriers. The new schedule also shortens average connection times for long-haul passengers transferring through Warsaw to Central Asia and North Africa.
For globally mobile staff the message is clear: Poland’s largest hub is doubling-down on its role as a regional connector. Corporations that have recently relocated teams to Warsaw’s business-services sector will gain new nonstop options, while assignees already in Poland will see improved weekend / bleisure opportunities.
Airport operator PPL said the enlarged network is designed around the needs of corporate travellers who demand direct links to secondary European business hubs and North-African growth markets. LOT’s Marrakesh and Malaga routes give exporters and Polish construction firms faster access to Morocco and southern Spain, while the Porto link targets Poland’s thriving IT-services trade with Portugal. New Nordic flights to Stavanger and Rovaniemi strengthen oil-and-gas field connectivity and winter incentive travel, respectively.
The winter build-out caps a record summer in which Chopin handled 13.4 million passengers, 7 % above 2024. Capacity growth is being supported by the airport’s pier-south refurbishment, completed in early October, which adds four contact gates sized for Boeing 787s. LOT says the gate expansion was a prerequisite for launching the Marrakesh route with its B787-8s configured for a premium-heavy cabin popular with consulting and energy clients.
Travel-management companies (TMCs) forecast seat prices on legacy city-pairs such as Warsaw–London and Warsaw–Paris to soften by 3-5 % as fresh capacity enters the market. HR mobility managers are being advised to review travel policies for employees commuting between Poland and the Iberian Peninsula, where direct links were previously dominated by low-cost carriers. The new schedule also shortens average connection times for long-haul passengers transferring through Warsaw to Central Asia and North Africa.
For globally mobile staff the message is clear: Poland’s largest hub is doubling-down on its role as a regional connector. Corporations that have recently relocated teams to Warsaw’s business-services sector will gain new nonstop options, while assignees already in Poland will see improved weekend / bleisure opportunities.
Quelle: Money.pl & Życie Warszawy
