Warsaw’s new airport: no Wizz | beyondbrics

Warsaw’s new airport: no Wizz | beyondbrics:

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Poland’s flat countryside hasn’t been regularly visited by elephants since mammoths disappeared at the end of the last ice age, but a new elephant has appeared not far from Warsaw – a white one.

That would be the problem-plagued Modlin airport about 40km north-west of Warsaw. This week it was dealt a body blow by Hungary’s low-cost Wizz Air airline, which announced it would not be returning to Modlin after the airport was forced to close for more than half a year to rebuild its runway.

The airport, a converted air base which opened last year, was supposed to serve low-cost airlines that were upset with the high costs charged by Chopin international airport, the Polish capital’s main hub. Built at a cost of 450m zlotys ($140m), it pulled in Wizz and rival Ryanair but almost immediately ran into trouble."

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