Originally Posted by
DublinPole
then you have had various other issues that have cropped up since it's opened.
Even before it opened. The military was wise enough to built a runway not into the prevailing wind direction, next to a huge friggin river and swamps causing frequent low visibility. Obviously the ILS was not ready by the time the airport was opened for commercial traffic, later the airport bought one which was not approved by PANSA. Wizz was moving its Warsaw operation back to WAW due to the continuous weather-related disruptions when (2 days later) the cracks were discovered in the runway surface causing a long airport closure eventually.
PANSA (Polish Air Navigation Services Agency) is working as it was still communism in Poland. They are responsible for all ILSs (not the airports), and the ATC (continuous staff shortages and stupid IT system "improvement" decisions). All airports are in beef with them as they delay ILS upgrades (while airports are building runways/terminals and other facilities to cope with the every-increasing traffic). They needed 12 months ro repair the ILS of KTW when the Air Europe 737 destroyed some lights/antennas on landing; they frantically oppose any "countryside" airports having CAT III as long as the mighty WAW does not have one; in POZ and GDN they wanted to perform ILS maintenance/upgrades in November (when it's needed the most) etc. Btw WAW have a CAT III-capable ILS for nearly a year now but it's NOTAMed CAT II as the authorities does not approve CAT III operations for being "too dangerous" (WTF??). It took until 2016 to have CAT II ILS in WRO, GDN, LUZ and KTW. POZ is still CAT I (as is KRK I believe) and the 5th largest EU-country with a population of 39 million does not have a single CAT III runway in 2017.