Wpływ portów lotniczych na rozwój lokalny i regionalny oraz ich funkcjonowanie w stanach kryzysowych
The impact of the airports on local and regional development and their functioning in crisis situations

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the development of airport infrastructure in a given territorial unit, particularly its effect on that unit, is a complex phenomenon that requires study and analysis. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to analyse the functioning of airports in crisis states that have taken place recently. The airport embodies an enormous and yet untapped potential. Airports can perform not only the functions of transportation and communication, but they can also be important catalysts for economic prosperity, and thus create development opportunities for many regions and administrative units. Assumption made that the following and overlapping crisis states strongly slow down the development and negatively affect the functioning of airports, and this translates into local and regional increase of a given spatial unit in which a given airport is located. Therefore, this study is devoted to answer the following questions: (1) what are the function of modern airports and what is their impact on various industries of the economy in the given area; (2) what is airports’ contribution to creating new jobs; (3) what are the effects of the airport on the socio-economic development of the spatial unit, taking into account the current impacts a result of the crisis, which was the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and the military conflict in Ukraine which was started in 2022; (4) what is the strategic importance of airports in connection with the performance of important functions for a given area, especially in periods and states of crisis threat. As a result of the conducted analyses presented were the potential opportunities and threats for the development of airports, from the perspective of economic and social growth, and against the background of global and European trends, as well as the Polish market conditions and the growing importance of ensuring safety.

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