Okęcie was not shut.
The airport in Okęcie district of Warsaw (as if it mattered to anyone where it is?) was shut.

No casualties.

JFK airport is NOT referred to as "Queens", just like WAW airport's name is not "Okecie". Regardless the fact what device it is typed on.
I pointed out this typical mistake, which some people copy, and mislead others. Okecie is the name of the district where the airport is located.
The sad result is that people (Polish as well as foreigners) visiting Warsaw see a bus displaying direction "Okęcie" - and they hop on it thinking they are going to the airport.

Whilst I have no interest in responding to your petty assertions (you made my day with the last sentence, though, about Polish people and foreigners being mislead by Okęcie when heading to the airport... Please, do us a favour...), the airport is, however, commonly known/referred to as Warszawa-Okęcie or Lotnisko Chopina (as a matter of fact, it used to be called, officially, Port Lotniczy Warszawa-Okęcie). Needless to say (and, after that, it's ignore mode-on), I didn't start the thread thinking about people visiting Warsaw or, even worse, intending to get involved in a geography lesson concerning the actual district where the airport is located. Funnily enough and adding to misery, the airport itself is not located in the Okęcie district as wrongly stated by yourself, but within Włochy (and, indeed, the former is part of the latter). And on that note...

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Being annoyed by people calling WAW "Okęcie" and not "Frederic Chopin Airport" makes as much sense as being annoyed by people calling TXL "Tegel" and not "Otto Lilienthal Airport", i.e. none. Deal with it.

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Thinking about it, I must have offended my taxi driver when he picked me up last night and I said Na lotnisko Okęcie. Clearly, I should have said: "Please, can I get to Żwirki i Wigury 1, 00-001 Warszawa". Thank God he didn't drop me off on Aleja Krakowska...

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Please get your facts correct. It was the 'Port Lotniczy imienia Fryderyka Chopina' that was shut, not some random airport in Okęcie district.

TVN24 is blocked on my Tellybox. TVP Info is hard wired as the only news channel .

Kind of embarrassing that you referred in such a condescending manner to the person on FT that probably knows more about LOT/PL than anybody else in the LH forum.

Please tell me which ZTM buses have Okęcie as the destination on their electronic display and I will gladly hop on one in the foolish delusion that I am heading straight to WAW!

Well, I know a few LO employees too and I never heard anyone call it Okecie, nor do I regularly hear Polish say I'm going to Okecie etc. I'm sure it happens with the old-timers but the first mention of it being Okecie that I had heard was from A-UK on this Forum. WAW is otherwise called "Warsaw Airport", "Warsaw Chopin" and a distinction is drawn from WMI which I find is just called "Modlin".

Tegel is called Tegel, no one calls it Otto Lilienthal etc. The flights are to "Berlin Tegel" and "Warsaw Chopin" I hear on the planes... Perhaps andywaw is thinking along the lines of Tegel where Alt-Tegel is mistaken for TXL on the U6 line and it genuinely is pointed out as not being the site of TXL. When I lived in TXL I remember it being on tourist maps and info.

I regularly call it Okęcie to the point I always forget which city has Ławica and which one has Okęcie (though I lived in one for 10+ years and the other for 3+!) and have to spend two seconds thinking before speaking to a cab driver as not to mess it up. I do have old parents though, so maybe they imbued bad habits in me

(I also find the the hyper-correctnes kind-of bemusing. We all understood what the original posted had in mind, the correction is just pointless nitpickery, although, as I said, somewhat funny.
Some users of this forum have habits of doing the same with "Swissair" => "Swiss" — and I understand that there was a "Swissair" at one point —but pretty sure no one is confused which airline someone is asking about when referring to a connection they're gonna have in 2018.)

The only person I know (not personally) that uses "Warsaw Chopin" exclusively is the airports PR representative.

Placenames are funny things - people retain an emotional attachment to them and may cling on to a name even when it has long ceased to be official. My best mate lives in Huyton, near Liverpool, and his late father would always insist on referring to JLA (LPL) as Speke, and get visibly irritated if anyone tried calling it John Lennon Airport: "It's Speke, I tell ya - SPEKE!!!". People in Manchester and elsewhere often referred to MAN as Ringway even well into the 90s after the new terminals had been built.

With WAW it's a bit different as the 'Chopin' moniker hasn't fully taken hold among the locals, as Lack says above, so what you have is a 'misz masz' of terms being used interchangeably. Usually you just give a taxi driver 'lotnisko' as your destination, though occasionally you might get asked if you want Modlin instead.

BTW, anyone who came to WAW after 2009 can consider themselves lucky they never had to experience Etiuda!

Exactly. TVN24 is owned by a western spy country company.

An update on this. Here's a report from today's Gazeta Wyborcza on rumours of Wizz Air leaving WAW.
Czy warszawiacy b?d? lata? z Radomia? Prezes Wizz Aira: Chcemy zosta? na Ok?ciu

Note the expressions used.
From the headline: "Chcemy zostać na Okęciu"

Also: "nasi klienci chcą latać z Okęcia", "PPL chce zrobić na Okęciu więcej miejsca dla LOT-u", "Także na Okęciu [ma dwa pasy] są jeszcze możliwości rozwoju".