Port Polska has released initial designs for the CPK airport ops centre, the Airport Operations Control Centre (AOCC) at Poland’s new hub between Warsaw and Łódź, one of six supporting facilities moving through design under the programme ahead of a 2032 opening. The disclosure, first reported by Airport World, gives suppliers and contractors an early look at what will be the nerve centre for one of Europe’s largest live airport builds.
The facility is designed to sit alongside the first section of the country’s High-Speed Rail network, which shares a construction timetable with the airport itself. Once operating, the AOCC will function as a shared working environment bringing airport operational teams, airlines, government services and other agencies into one facility, with access to live operational data to identify and respond to delays, disruptions and emergencies as they happen.
Six facilities, one design programme
The AOCC is one of six facilities being delivered under Port Polska’s design contracts for the airport’s supporting infrastructure. Alongside it sit an air traffic control tower, a police station, a multi-storey car park, facilities for airport rescue and firefighting services, and catering facilities. None of the six carries a published cost or contractor name yet, which puts this squarely at the design stage rather than the procurement stage most suppliers to the sector are watching for.
That stage still matters commercially. Airports building an AOCC from scratch are effectively specifying an operations platform before a single system is bought, which is the point in a programme where integrators and control-centre software vendors position themselves hardest. Readers tracking how live operational data gets used once a centre like this opens can compare it against the agentic AI pilots already running at CVG and Munich Airport, and against the surface surveillance rollout the FAA has now pushed past 100 US airport installs.
Part of a bigger multimodal bet
The wider project is built around integrating air, rail and road transport so passengers can transfer between modes with fewer connections and faster onward links across Poland and internationally. It sits among the programmes tracked in Airport Business Magazine’s roundup of the biggest airport capital programmes of 2026-27, where state-funded builds are drawing supplier attention well ahead of opening day. New-airport programmes on this scale also tend to run extensive systems testing before first flights, a pattern already visible in the run-up to Western Sydney Airport’s own pre-opening trial flight.
With a 2032 target for passenger opening alongside the first phase of the high-speed rail line, Port Polska has roughly six years to move the AOCC and its five companion facilities from design to construction to commissioning. No timeline for construction contracts has been published.
What to do next
There is nothing to buy yet: this is a design disclosure, not a tender. Suppliers of control-centre software, integrated operations platforms and airside surveillance systems should treat it as a marker to watch Port Polska’s procurement channel for the AOCC contract once design work firms up, rather than a reason to act now.
