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Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)

Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW, EPWA) serves Warsaw, Poland. Flights leaving WAW left an average of 18.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 70th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 24.6 million passengers used it in the twelve months to April 2026, most often flying to or from Antalya.

Delays at WAW

Average departure delay per flight: 18.1 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (27.0 min) and lightest in March (10.8 min).

Average departure delay per flight from WAW, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202518.6 min9,539
September 202522.4 min9,179
October 202521.3 min8,914
November 202512.7 min7,467
December 202518.1 min7,884
January 202627.0 min7,679
February 202620.4 min7,141
March 202610.8 min7,848
April 202612.5 min8,065
May 202612.5 min8,949
June 202619.1 min9,367
July 202620.4 min9,650

Air traffic flow restrictions held 2.0% of arrivals at WAW for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of airport capacity (64% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at WAW

24,579,264 passengers used WAW in the twelve months to April 2026, on 192,923 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at WAW, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
May 20252,095,17016,714
June 20252,271,39617,454
July 20252,433,19718,113
August 20252,515,24318,379
September 20252,346,63317,643
October 20252,174,40116,969
November 20251,806,59714,224
December 20251,790,38915,026
January 20261,746,34114,656
February 20261,691,79713,557
March 20261,768,87914,854
April 20261,939,22115,334

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from WAW

  1. Antalya (AYT)657,567 passengers
  2. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)599,184 passengers
  3. London Heathrow (LHR)579,372 passengers
  4. Paris (CDG)536,985 passengers
  5. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)526,916 passengers
  6. Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)461,210 passengers
  7. London Luton (LTN)459,108 passengers
  8. Vienna (VIE)418,353 passengers
  9. Rome (FCO)407,741 passengers
  10. Dubai (DXB)400,411 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Warsaw (WAW)?
Flights leaving WAW left an average of 18.1 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 70th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at WAW?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 27.0 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (10.8 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at WAW?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At WAW in the last year the biggest cause was airport capacity (64% of those minutes), then weather (36%).

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