Fog at the airport in Krakow. Arrivals were redirected to other airports

Morning fog once again forced the redirection of arrivals to Krakow to other airports. “The autumn-winter season has begun,” Internet users commented.

Morning flights to Krakow diverted

Krakow Airport reported that the following flights to Katowice were redirected on Wednesday morning:

• FR 3698 from Paris-Beauvais

• FR 2228 from Valencia

• FR 2762 from Copenhagen

• FR 1470 from Rome-Ciampino

• FR 4626 from Stockholm-Arlanda

• DY 1028 from Bergen

• FR 4934 from Brussels-Charleroi

• LX1370 from Zurich

• SK 1735 from Copenhagen

Lufthansa LH 1620 returned to Munich.

Okay. 10:00 the weather situation stabilized. Weather conditions improved and flight operations resumed. The airport asked people to check the status of their flight on an ongoing basis.

“The decision to redirect or cancel flights rests with the airline, which provides information to passengers on an ongoing basis; Kraków Airport, based on information from carriers/handling companies, updates the information on the visual information boards departures/arrivals in the terminal, on the website and in the application,” it said in the release.

Permanent problem of the airport in Balice

It will be years before the Małopolska airport says goodbye to the fog problem. Radio Kraków reported that the Air Force Institute of Technology issued a negative recommendation regarding the installation of a new category system, ILS III, on the current runway. The new road is to be built by 2031 – in three stages. The first one (1,800 m) is to be ready in autumn 2029. ILS is a radio landing support system in limited visibility.

The president of Kraków Airport, Łukasz Strutyński, said that “in the long term, only for about 2% of the airport’s operating hours, the visibility on the runway drops below 550 m, which makes landing impossible,” but considering the rapid development of this airport, this is a problem.