The Upper Silesian Aviation Group (GTL SA) has prepared the Katowice Airport investment program for 2024–2032, and is in the process of carrying it out. The company managing Katowice Airport has years of experience in realising airport investments; in 2007–2022, over 40 investment projects worth nearly PLN 1B, including the construction of a new runway (3200 metres long), were carried out at the airport. The program was prepared in cooperation with Arup – an international company which employs 16K engineers, designers, planners and consultants in 90 offices around the world. Since 1947, the company specialises in preparing complex infrastructure projects.
The development plan for Katowice Airport to 2030 has a complex nature. Its main point is the construction of a central passenger terminal and a new road system which will accompany it. Similarly significant is the need to expand outside car park, construct a multi-storey car park, and create a Multimodal Transfer Centre at Katowice Airport which will connect bus, rail and air transport. The list of projects also includes the construction of a fourth aircraft maintenance hangar, a second cargo terminal, new Airport Rescue and Firefighting building, new facilities for airport's transportation and operations departments, and the construction of a EU co-funded Multimodal Goods and Fuel Delivery Hub with Railway Siding Connection.
The Katowice Airport expansion program to 2030 was created in a way which allows to optimally use the grounds available in the southern part of the airport. Completion of planned investments will increase the airport's throughput, allowing to comfortably handle the forecast growth of passenger traffic. Realisation of the presented concept will strengthen Katowice Airport in such areas as: handling cargo traffic and aircraft maintenance. Furthermore, it will allow to launch a new area of activities in the form of storing and distributing aviation fuel.
