Originally Posted by
Charlie Roy
It's a crazy state of affairs! What's even more insane is the talk of THIRD airport for Warsaw!
There is a real need for an intervention, and the EU is the best candidate to intervene. Here's hoping...
This is moving quite fast now, PPL have now also blocked a €15m bond from a Polish bank agreed by other shareholders to pay for some work in the terminal and also to repair taxiways so repairs cannot be made. The chairman of the airport supervisory board and the local authority says this may require the airport to be closed by the civil aviation authority on safety grounds (some suggest it is a tactic to force the other shareholders to sell up)
The other thing of note that the CEO of PPL also stated that they will not pay Ryanair to serve the airports in Warsaw, but the way it was worded was that it was specifically Ryanair they would not pay, not airlines in general which if correct wouldn't surprise me
Most of the analysis I've read suggests running Modlin and Chopin as a duopoly is simply a holding pattern until the new big airport in Warsaw is created when both will be closed down for the new big airport which will pretty much return the status quo as it was before Modlin was opened.
It's absloutely vital that Modlin does not come under the ownership of PPL but at the moment Ryanair are snookered - They're having awkward treatment in Chopin, PPL are blocking expansion of Modlin unless they get full control and then they will almost certainly make large changes.