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Nov 06, 2017 (newstodate): Radom Airport in southern Poland is placing a bid for luring cargo flights to the airport.
The bid is prompted by the introduction by end of March 2018 of a nigh curfew at Warsaw Chopin Airport which would present an obstacle to freighter operations during the night time.
Operations by large freighter aircraft would however require an extension of the airport's current 2,000m runway and the construction of a larger apron area, and efforts have thus started to attract investors for the airport projects.
In 2014, Radom Airport completed a comprehensive modernization process including resurfacing of its 2,000 m runway, a new passenger terminal, new NAVAID systems and airfield lighting, and is now been fully certified by ICAO standards to receive both domestic and future international flights.
Radom Airport was built in 1929 and has been operating both as military base as well as a civil airport.
With the first flight on September 1, 2015, the Latvian airline airBaltic became the first scheduled carrier to operate at Poland's new Radom-Sadkow Airport.
It proved a short-lived success, however, as the carrier pulled out again with the last flight on November 18, 2015, leaving the airport without any commercial airline.
The bid is prompted by the introduction by end of March 2018 of a nigh curfew at Warsaw Chopin Airport which would present an obstacle to freighter operations during the night time.
Operations by large freighter aircraft would however require an extension of the airport's current 2,000m runway and the construction of a larger apron area, and efforts have thus started to attract investors for the airport projects.
In 2014, Radom Airport completed a comprehensive modernization process including resurfacing of its 2,000 m runway, a new passenger terminal, new NAVAID systems and airfield lighting, and is now been fully certified by ICAO standards to receive both domestic and future international flights.
Radom Airport was built in 1929 and has been operating both as military base as well as a civil airport.
With the first flight on September 1, 2015, the Latvian airline airBaltic became the first scheduled carrier to operate at Poland's new Radom-Sadkow Airport.
It proved a short-lived success, however, as the carrier pulled out again with the last flight on November 18, 2015, leaving the airport without any commercial airline.