Modernisation Proposals
Katowice (321 thousand inhabitants, 4,5 million in nearby GOP conurbation)intended to transform its inner-city airport (current runway length: 1110 meters, width: 30 meters) into a proper City-Airport (there is limited space for the enlargement of the landing strip to approx. 1500 meters) that would serve this densely populated coal basin. However, only smaller aircraft could use it, and it would serve rather domestic and business traffic.
It was recently decided that building new concrete runway parallel to ul. Lotnicza (Lotnicza Street) with dimensions 850 x 25 metres is the best course of action. Further modernization would require also building new facilities, including a passenger terminal. It is unclear how the proposed improvements are to be squared with the conditions which forced the cessation of passenger traffic in the first place. As of summer 2007, work on fixing the airport has stalled because of a court fight between its resident sport airclubs (aeroclubs) over airport's real estate (nominally owned by the city, but handed over to the airclubs in perpetual lease).
Read more about this topic: Katowice-Muchowiec Airport
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