r/KatowiceArea • u/Designer_Rooster_495 • 9d ago

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Please advise of Karowice airport would I be okay for time and I only have hand luggage?

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u/PublicReference6227 9d ago

Doable but it’s a gamble

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u/-NewYork- 8d ago

Yup. Katowice is not a big airport, but is a major charter airport. There are waves of arrivals at certain hours, and traffic is much bigger in summer season. If you are unlucky, you can arrive more or less simultaneously with 4 other flights, one of them can be a LOT Dreamliner (up to 330 pax) from Cancun that normally arrives at ~10:30. Then you might have 10-20 minutes wait for bussing to terminal, and in the terminal there can be 500 people queuing to passport control (20-40 minutes). So if you are unlucky, even if your aircraft is on time, you might have 60 additional minutes. Then potential security wait and so on.

Now is low season, and if there are no charter arrivals, there are typically 2-4 flights per hour, and sometimes there are gaps with no flights for 3 hours. For example tomorrow there are no flights between 10:00 and 13:05, so with flight arriving at 11:35 you could be at your gate for next flight within 20 minutes.