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The central airport doesn't make sense because there are no airlines that will use it as hub (other than LOT, which can't even overload Okęcie), especially now
by p_l 5y ago
The central airport doesn't make sense because there are no airlines that will use it as hub (other than LOT, which can't even overload Okęcie), especially now that Hub&Spoke is reduced in prominence. To just get reasonable amount of people from Poland they'd have to close pretty much all other airports in Poland, which would cripple local travel (some trips I take would go back to >9h, or I'd have to fly to Berlin and take a Taxi).
Berlin is a corner case of national capital that is in aviation terms in the boonies. Frankfurt Auf Mein and Munich are big hubs because that's where Lufthansa has logistical bases. The 2000km distance doesn't do anything, that's a short hop for airliners. That means that Berlin will do profitable important routes direct... which happen to be mostly to airline hubs, with few exceptions.
So there's no reason for people from neighbouring countries to use it, it require artificially breaking other airports in Poland to have even a sliver of reason (easily debunked by anyone with idea of state of polish airports). It's whole existence happened because one man had an unresearched biased idea and the party jumps at his whim.