Europe's new mega £25billion airport with 260million passengers to finally start works next year
TAKING OFF Europe's new mega £25billion airport with 260million passengers to finally start works next year
THE huge new European airport wanting to take on Heathrow and Dubai is set to finally start works.
Designs for Centralny Port Komunikacyjny airport, otherwise known as CPK, have finally been accepted, with building work starting in 2026.
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Work on CPK airport is set to start in 2026
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Millions of passengers will pass through the airport
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The new mega terminal in Poland is set to take on the likes of London Heathrow and Dubai as one of the biggest airport hubs in the world.
Designs for CPK were accepted in August 2025, with the airport being designed by Foster + Partners and Buro Happold.
Foster + Partners is the company behind London's Battersea Roof Gardens and the Gherkin.
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The terminal design reveals two phases of development with the first set to open before 2032.
Parts of this include the creation of the passenger terminal which will cover 450,000m2 .
This will be almost three times the size of nearby Warsaw Chopin Airport's passenger terminal.
The CPK passenger terminal will operate across three levels, on level two will be ticket and baggage check-in, security control, arrivals and departures for the Schengen zone.
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On level one will be most of the arrivals and departures for the Non-Schengen zone, transfer centres and passport control.
Level zero will have coach gates for both Schengen and non-Schengen zones, baggage reclaim and an arrivals hall.
Dubai is building the world's largest airport
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Designs were approved in August 2025
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The terminal will be three times the size of Poland's existing airport terminal
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CPK airport will initially have two parallel runways with a plan to include a third runway in the future, and even a fourth later on.
The first phase of the airport will create space for between 49 and 67 aircraft.
For comparison, Chopin Airport currently has space for between 22 and 27 aircraft.
In its first stage, CPK Airport is expected to handle up to 11,000 passengers per hour, and up to 34 million per year.
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On opening day, the terminal will have 140 ticket and baggage check-in desks.
The project includes the construction of almost 2000km of new high-speed railway lines.
According to the schedule, the airport's railway station will be completed by 2029.
CPK Airport is expected to be operational by the end of 2032, at a cost of £25billion.
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It is not yet known when flights will operate from the airport and which airlines will fly from the travel hub.
Over in Dubai, plans are going ahead to build the world's biggest airport that could see 260 million passengers.
The airport is an extension of the already standing Al Maktoum International Airport opened in 2010 that is 22 miles outside of the city.
Once complete, Al Maktoum Airport will be able to handle 260 million passengers a year.
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It will have five runways and up to 400 aircraft gates, which makes it the largest airport project in the world.
Here's the other huge airport with 185 million passengers to open by 2030 – and could have direct UK flights.
Read more on the international 'London' airport that is 3,285 miles from the UK – and no flights to the English city.
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