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5 October 2006 | Hungarian budget airline Wizzair announced new connection to Stockholm. Flights begin on 28 July 2007 and take place three times a week.

 

28 June 2006 | The following presidents arrived at Poznań – Ławica: Lech Kaczyński – President of the Republic of Poland, Horst Koehler – President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vaclav Klaus – President of the Czech Republic, Ivan Gasparovic – President of the Slovak Republic and Laszlo Solyom – President of the Hungarian Republic. All four presidents took part in the celebrations of “Poznań June 1956”.

 

5 April 2005 | Irish airline Ryanair announced new connection from Poznań to Liverpool. Flights begin on 4 October 2006 and take place 3 times a week.

 

1 April 2006 | Inauguration of connection to Dublin operated by the national Irish carrier – AerLingus. Flights take place 2 times a week by Airbus A320.

 

23 September 2005 | Inauguration of connection to London Stansted operated by the largest budget line in Europe – Ryanair. Flights take place everyday; Boeing 737-800.

 

18 September 2005 | Inauguration of connection to London Luton operated by the Hungarian airline Wizzair. Flights take place 5 times a week; Airbus A320.

 

July 2005 | announcement of connection to London Luton and London Stansted by WizzAir and Ryanair airlines.

 

30 November 2004 | Foundation of Initiative Group for activation of regional air transport development.

18 November 2004 | Opening of EUROSHOP Perfumery at national departure hall.

 

15 June 2004 | New connection Poznań – Brussels operated by budget airline – Air Polonia.

 

26 May 2004 | Poznań – Ławica Airport receive Certificate of Public Use Airport from the President of the Civil Aviation Office.

 

1 May 2004 | Opening of Windrose Air office at General Aviation terminal.

28 March 2004 | New air connection Poznań – Munich operated by a German carrier, Deutsche Lufthansa.

 

25 February 2004 | Landing of FC Girodins deBordeaux football players, who played a 3rd round match of the UEFA Cup with Groclin Grodzisk.

 

1 January 2004 | Celebration of the 85th anniversary of capturing the Poznań – Ławica airport by Great Poland Insurrectionists.

 

08 December 2003 | New direct connection Poznań – London operated by the first budget airline in Poland – Air Polonia.

 

27 November 2003 | Landing of Manchester City football players, who played a 3rd round match of the UEFA Cup with Groclin Grodzisk.

 

26 October 2003 | New air connection Poznań – Munich operated by PLL LOT.

 

6 October 2003 | New connection to Köln/Bonn operated by European Air Express.

 

14 August 2003 | Landing of the largest cargo plane in the world, An-225 Mriya.

 

05-06 July 2003 | “Military and Air show” at Ławica Airport.

4 July 2003 | Putting to use a modernized General Aviation terminal.

 

March 2003 | New air connection with Vienna operated by PLL LOT.

 

March 2003 | Opening of a duty-free shop.

 

27 October 2002 | New air connection with Frankfurt am Main.

 

08 April 2002 | New air connection with Vienna

 

19 January 2002 | Arrival of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation

 

4 November 2001 | Opening of the new Passenger Terminal

 

25 March 2001 | New connection with Zielona Góra

 

2 February 2001 | Opening of the new Cargo Terminal

 

17 December 2000 | Expansion of the apron area for planes (36.200 m2)

 

22 November 2000 | Signing of the Partnership Agreement between the Frankfurt am Main Airport and the Poznań-Ławica Airport.

 

28 October 2000 | New connection to Brussels

2000 | Commencement of construction of the Passenger Terminal

 

28 October 1998 | New connection to Hanover

 

4 June 1998 | Scientific conference “Air Transport in the Development of Great Poland in the 21st century” At the Economy Academy in Poznań

 

21 February 1998 | Landing of three special planes carrying the President of France, Jacques Chirac, the German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, and the President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, to the session of the Weimar Triangle.

 

12 December 1997 | End of construction works of a car park for 200 vehicles.

 

23 September 1997 | Official opening of modernized Airport Terminal. Total surface doubled and totalled 2.400 m2. After modernization, the Airport could service 900 thousand travellers annually. End of expansion works of passenger terminal by means of building a passage between arrival and departure hall with the change of functions.

 

11 august 1997 | Second arrival of An 124 Ruslan cargo plane.

 

11 July 1997 | Foundation of a limited company according to the trade law– Poznań-Ławica Airport. Since the beginning of the Company, it has been administered by Krzysztof Pawłowski - Management Board President.

 

29 June 1997 | Official celebration of giving a name pf POZNAŃ to the latest and largest Boeing 767-300 ER belonging to the fleet of LOT Polish Airlines.

 

3 June 1997 | Pope John Paul II’s fourth visit to Poland.  Pope John Paul II visited the Poznań-Ławica Airport for the second time.

 

12 August 1996 | Arrival of An 12 Ruslan cargo plane, which brought two compressors for Paraffin Oil and Gas Mining Company, both weighing 105 tons altogether. The plane flew from Calgary with a refuelling stop in Scotland. Length of body – 69 metres, wingspread – 72 metres, height – 21 metres, take-off weight – 405 tons.

 

10 August 1996 | Landing of C-141 Starlifter plane. The Poznań-Ławica Airport made its airfield available for NATO fleet planes.

 

28 October 1995 | New connection to Copenhagen

 

25 March 1995 | New connection to Dresden

 

28 March 1993 | First international connection with Düsseldorf

 

23 August 1991 | Air Show – Poznań 1991

 

1971 | Lengthening of the runway to 2500 m

10 May 1921 | During the First International Exhibition in Poznan, first commercial airplanes in Poland took off to Warsaw and Gdańsk. Beginning of mail transport through “Aerotarg” company from Poznań.

 

6 January 1919 | As a result of insurrection, Ławica became a Polish airport. Approximately 250 working military aircrafts were taken over by insurrectionists at the captured airfield. This fact caused that for the first time in the history of national insurrections the Poles had technical advantage over invaders, which significantly contributed to the success of the Great Poland Insurrection. If it had not been for this courageous act of the Insurrectionists, the Poznań Airport would not have been taken over by the Poles and perhaps the fate of the Insurrection would have been different.

1913 | Foundation of the Poznań airport. A military complex was built in Ławica, near Poznań, by the Prussian invader.