Construction of a new air traffic control tower at the Lublin airport for over PLN 20 million

What is the importance of building a new tower?

Since 2013, controllers from the Lublin airport have been working in the container tower. The new building is to have six floors and 24 meters high. With additional equipment installed on the roof, it will reach over 26 meters.

The current volume of our container complex is insufficient to install the systems developed by PANSA; which are constantly purchased and implemented by us. Hence, we must provide appropriate places for all our telecommunications equipment - explained the Head of the Control Department at Lublin Airport, air traffic controller Adrian Żakowski.

According to the president of the airport, Dariusz Krzowski, the construction of the new tower will improve air traffic safety and increase the comfort of controllers' work. It is also important in the context of plans for the development of passenger and cargo connections.

We are in constant contact with the airlines. We assume that this traffic will grow and in the next two or three years it may increase to 800,000, and in an optimistic scenario, even to one million passengers a year - announced the president of the airport.

Marcin Hadaj, spokesman for the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency, announced that the cost of building the tower will amount to over PLN 20 million. Completion of construction works is scheduled for mid-2027. The facility is planned to be equipped with operating systems at the turn of 2027 and 2028. The new traffic control tower is scheduled to be commissioned in 2028.

PANSA employs over 20 employees at the Lublin airport, including 12 air traffic controllers. In the near future, the number of controllers is to be increased by three people who are currently undergoing training.

Lublin airport in numbers

The Lublin airport was opened in 2012. It has the status of an international airport and can handle aircraft the size of Boeing 767 or Airbus A310.

The port has a storage and transhipment hall with an area of ​​nearly 2,000 m2. m2, equipped with, among others, in a cold storage room and large-size X-ray machines. In 2025, the port completed over 5,000 air operations and handled 471,000 passengers.

Where can you fly from Lublin airport?

In the summer months, you can fly from the Lublin airport for holidays to Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria, Egypt, Tunisia and Greece. Regular connections to Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and flights to the Polish seaside - to Gdańsk - are popular.