Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport

Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is the third-busiest airport in Poland by passenger volume after Warsaw-Chopin (WAW) and Kraków-Balice (KRK), serving the Silesian Voivodeship's roughly 4.5M residents — the most populous region of Poland and one of the largest metropolitan agglomerations in the European Union. Located 21 mi (34 km) north of downtown Katowice at 995 ft (303 m) elevation in the town of Pyrzowice, KTW handles 90 routes across 64 destinations through 14 airlines. The airport is named for Wojciech Korfanty, the Silesian independence leader who played a central role in the 1920s plebiscites and uprisings that brought the region into the Polish state. Wizz Air operates one of its largest Polish bases at KTW with extensive service across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and Ryanair runs significant base operations supporting its European network. Polish charter and leisure carrier Enter Air is headquartered at Katowice with a large fleet of 737s serving charter destinations around the Mediterranean, Canaries, North Africa, and the Caribbean; LOT Polish Airlines operates limited scheduled service. The network concentrates on Western European labor-migration and ethnic visiting-friends-and-relatives markets (London airports, Dublin, Cork, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Brussels, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Düsseldorf, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Milan, Rome) and Mediterranean leisure destinations via scheduled and charter operators (Antalya, Bodrum, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Palma, Malaga, Zakynthos, Heraklion, Rhodes). The airfield operates a single concrete runway — 08/26 at 10,499 ft (3,200 m) — capable of full widebody operations and notably used by the occasional charter and ACMI widebody flights supporting Enter Air's intercontinental leisure operations. A major passenger terminal expansion program has substantially increased capacity in successive phases since the mid-2000s, with Terminal C — the international passenger facility — serving most scheduled flights. KTW hosts significant cargo activity via Poczta Polska and international freight operators, and the airport's strategic location along major European road and rail corridors makes it an important logistics node for the Silesian industrial economy.