Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport

Gdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN), named for the Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace laureate who was born in the surrounding Pomerania region, is the third-busiest airport in Poland after Warsaw Chopin and Kraków Balice. Serving the Tricity metropolitan area of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot — a combined population of roughly 1.5 million — the airport has become the key aviation gateway to northern Poland, the Kashubian Lake District and the Baltic coast, handling more than 6 million passengers in record years. It is operated by Port Lotniczy Gdańsk Sp. z o.o., jointly owned by the Pomeranian Voivodeship, the City of Gdańsk and the Polish state airport holding PPL. GDN sits in Rębiechowo, about 12 km (7 mi) northwest of Gdańsk's Main Town, at an elevation of 489 ft (149 m). A single 9,186 ft (2,800 m) asphalt runway (11/29) supports all widebody charter operations. Terminal T2, opened in 2012 and progressively extended, covers approximately 44,000 m² and is planned to grow to 61,000 m² under the airport's current expansion program, lifting design capacity beyond 9 million passengers per year. The older Terminal T1 has been converted to general-aviation and business use. Nineteen airlines connect GDN to 78 nonstop destinations, with Ryanair and Wizz Air providing the deepest low-cost networks to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia and southern Europe, and LOT Polish Airlines linking Warsaw for onward long-haul. Post-2022 the airport has absorbed significant humanitarian and military charter activity associated with NATO operations in the Baltic, and seasonal leisure flights to Turkey, Egypt and the Canary Islands round out a schedule that routinely places GDN among the fastest-growing airports in Central Europe (2025).