Copernicus Wrocław Airport

Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO), named for the Polish Renaissance astronomer who studied in the city, is the principal aviation gateway to Lower Silesia and one of the five busiest regional airports in Poland, handling more than 4 million passengers a year. Serving the Wrocław metropolitan area of about 1.3 million and the wider Sudetenland tourism corridor, WRO has been one of the fastest-growing airports in the European Union since 2022, driven by low-cost expansion, humanitarian and military support flights related to Ukraine, and Wrocław's growing role as a Polish IT and manufacturing hub. It is operated by Port Lotniczy Wrocław S.A. The airport sits in the Strachowice district, about 10 km (6 mi) southwest of Wrocław's Market Square, at an elevation of 404 ft (123 m). A single 8,212 ft (2,503 m) concrete-asphalt runway (11/29) handles all commercial traffic. The current passenger terminal, opened in 2012 to coincide with UEFA Euro 2012, covers approximately 52,000 m² with 32 check-in counters and eight boarding bridges; a planned second terminal will extend design capacity beyond 7 million passengers per year in the late 2020s. Fifteen airlines link WRO to 71 nonstop destinations, with Ryanair, Wizz Air and LOT Polish Airlines providing the densest networks to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece, while LOT's Warsaw feed connects to long-haul services onward to North America, the Middle East and Asia. Seasonal leisure flying to Turkey, Egypt and the Canary Islands is joined by a sizeable program of Ukrainian humanitarian and military relief flights; Wrocław's role as a critical node in NATO logistics has sharply increased WRO's strategic weight since 2022 (2025).