Airport type public Elevation AMSL 211 m / 690 ft 09/27 3,200 Elevation 206 m | Serves Rzeszów, Poland Website rzeszowairport.pl Code RZE Phone +48 17 852 00 81 | |
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Operator Spolka Port Lotniczy "Rzeszow-Jasionka" sp. z o. o. Address Jasionka 942, 36-002 Jasionka, Poland Profiles | ||
Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport (IATA: RZE, ICAO: EPRZ) is an international airport located in southeastern Poland, in Jasionka, a village 10 km (6.2 mi) from the center of the city of Rzeszów. It is the seventh-busiest airport in Poland.
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History
The passenger domestic services to the Rzeszów Airport were started on 30.11.1945 with the opening of the circular domestic airline number 1/2 Warszawa – Łódź –Kraków – Rzeszów – Lublin – Warszawa. The airport was re-built an opened for commercial traffic in 1949 after the first facilities which were built in 1940 were destroyed in 1944.
On 2 June 2007 LOT Polish Airlines commenced seasonal Boeing 767-300ER services to New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark's Newark Liberty International Airport which since ceased again.
As of January 2008, the airport has had scheduled international flights to Dublin and London–Stansted, in addition to its domestic connection with Warsaw. It has also become a preferred arrival point for Jews on pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk in Leżajsk usually in March.
In 2009–10, it registered 18.66% increase in passenger traffic serving 451720 passengers in 2010. Coupled with the September 2006 start of the construction on a new passenger terminal, this means that the airport is undergoing a rapid expansion, albeit in fits and starts, owing to delays in setting up the management company and obtaining financing and routes. The new passenger terminal opened in May 2012. Rzeszów Airport has been cited as an airport with below-forecast passenger numbers and an inefficient usage of EU subsidies. Rzeszow Jasionka Airport, however, was underpassing an ECA (European Court of Auditors) audit in 2014 and - among 20 other European airports - its marks were positive in terms of efficiency and legitimacy using EU funds on Airports' modernization.
Facilities
Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport, situated 7.8 km (4.8 mi) north of Rzeszów, features the second-longest runway in Poland: 3,200 m × 45 m (10,499 ft × 148 ft).