Poland has major ambitions set for 2032. Its new airport, the CPK (Centralny Port Komunikacyjny), intends to become a major international aviation and transport hub, and it is expected to cost £26.7bn.
The Central Communication Port (CPK), also known as Solidarity Transport Hub, will feature a brand new airport, high-speed rail links, and a massive integrated station connecting air, rail, and road networks. Located around 25 miles west of Warsaw in the Mazovian Voivodeship, the new hub is being backed by the Polish government and is expected to open in 2032.
It’s being hailed as the country’s most ambitious infrastructure project to date. Confirmations of the plans were approved in November 2017 for the project, and as of November 2024, it was stated that construction is planned to start in 2026, with the airport officially opening in 2032 at the earliest.
The airport’s long-term goals are to serve more than 100 million passengers per year after increasing its planned runways from 2 to double its expansion and doubling the size of Berlin Brandenburg Airport.
Aside from the airport, the new inter-modal transport hub will benefit from a train station, including high-speed connections to several cities in Poland, such as Warsaw and Łódź, for which the line’s inauguration will coincide with the airport’s opening. A new bus station will also be built.
Dariusz Klimczak, Minister of Infrastructure, said in a statement: “Under the Ministry of Infrastructure, we are advancing the updated CPK project, crucial for Poland. Building permit drawings are ready for submission, and design work is nearly complete.”
Poland plans to make its new transport hub a significant European gateway for transit traffic.
Currently, important stopover points on the continent include London Heathrow (with the main airline in that respect being British Airways), Frankfurt and Munich (Lufthansa), and Madrid (Iberia), to name a few.
Poland hopes to capitalize on the potential of connecting traffic, anticipating a transit rate of 40% of all passengers counted by the new facility.