Warsaw-Radom Airport, located near the Polish capital, has accommodated 4,500 passengers since it reopened for business four weeks ago, following a significant renovation.
The airport, which has a chequered history, began handling flights again on April 27, after being officially opened by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister.
The only public airport in Poland built without EU support, Radom originally began operating in May 2014, but by 2017 was one of the worst-performing Polish airports with only 9,903 passengers handling that year, according to data from the Civil Aviation Office.
In 2018, a court declared port lotniczy Radom bankrupt, but a lifeline came in the form of Polish Airports State Enterprise PPL, which bought the property and then invested some PLN 800 million EUR 174.4 million Until today, the Radom airport has serviced 4,500 passengers, Stanislaw Wojtera, PPL's CEO, said on Radio 3 in the Polish state-owned broadcaster.
In 2016, Wojtera says the airport has already serviced half of all passengers, compared to the previous year.
At the end of this year, Radom will be somewhere in the middle of Polish regional airports when it comes to passenger numbers, he said.
Despite low numbers in the first weeks of operations, Wojtera said charter flights could improve their results from June.