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Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (EPLL) is a regional airport in central Poland, some 6 km southwest of Łódź, offering a long ILS-equipped main runway alongside a short grass strip. Operating since 1925, it has evolved from a wartime military field into a modern commercial gateway serving low-cost and charter traffic, and it is a straightforward VFR and IFR destination for simulator pilots exploring central Poland.
Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport, known locally as Łódź-Lublinek and officially named after the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Władysław Reymont, is a public regional airport serving the city of Łódź in central Poland. It is operated by Port Lotniczy Łódź im. Władysława Reymonta Sp. z o.o. and today handles scheduled and charter flights for airlines including Ryanair, Enter Air and Smartwings Poland. For a simulator pilot, the field is notable for pairing a full-length, ILS-served hard runway with a short parallel grass strip, giving a useful mix of instrument and visual approach practice at a compact, uncomplicated regional field.
The airport lies approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) southwest of Łódź city centre, in central Poland. It sits at an elevation of 597 ft and is positioned at coordinates 51.7219N, 19.3981E. Given its ILS/DME installation and scheduled airline services, the airport operates within controlled airspace appropriate to a regional commercial aerodrome, with Łódź Tower providing an air traffic control service.
Łódź Władysław Reymont has two physical runways. The main runway, 07/25, is 8174 ft long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with an ILS on the 25 approach. A shorter parallel runway, 07R/25L, is 2283 ft long with a grass surface and is also lit.
Pilots should expect to work Łódź Tower on 124.23 MHz, with Łódź Delivery available on 120.005 MHz and Radio on 122.9 MHz. An ATIS broadcast is provided on 135.68 MHz. The airport has an ILS serving runway 25, supported by DME, which was installed in October 2002.
Łódź Airport opened on 13 September 1925, making it one of Poland's oldest airfields. During the Second World War the occupying German forces developed the site for military use, constructing a concrete runway of 1,200 m (3,937 ft). In the immediate postwar period the airport served as a key transport hub, though this role diminished through the 1950s as Warsaw's airport grew in importance, and by the end of that decade regular passenger services to Łódź had ceased. Efforts to revive civilian traffic began in the 1990s, with a new passenger terminal opened in 1997 under the newly formed operator Port Lotniczy Łódź-Lublinek. The runway was progressively lengthened in the 2000s, growing from 1,443 m to 2,100 m in September 2005 and finally to 2,500 m by January 2007, allowing the airport to accommodate aircraft such as the Boeing 737, the first of which landed in October 2005. A larger Terminal 3, with capacity for 1.5 to 2 million passengers annually, opened in June 2012, the same period in which the airport adopted its current name in honour of Władysław Reymont, the Polish novelist and 1924 Nobel laureate in Literature. The opening of the A2 motorway between Łódź and Warsaw in 2012 subsequently increased competition from Warsaw's airports, and the airport lost its domestic connections following the bankruptcy of OLT Express that year.
Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport continues to operate as a regional airport handling scheduled and charter services, including seasonal charter flights to destinations such as Antalya, Burgas, Bodrum and Tirana, alongside Ryanair routes to cities including Alicante, Bergamo, Birmingham, Charleroi, Dublin, London-Stansted and Málaga. The field's long hard runway and ILS approach make it accessible to commercial jet traffic, while the parallel grass strip offers additional options for lighter visual traffic.
