Graz Airport

Graz Airport
Flughafen Graz-Thalerhof
Graz Airport Terminal 2
IATA: GRZ – ICAO: LOWG
GRZ
Location of airport in Austria
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Grazer Stadwerke AG
Operator Flughafen Graz Betriebs GmbH
Serves Graz, Austria
Location Feldkirchen, Kalsdorf
Elevation AMSL 340 m / 1,115 ft
Website www.airport-graz.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
17L/35R 640 2,100 Grass
17C/35C 3,000 9,842 Asphalt
17R/35L 760 2,493 Grass
Source: Austrian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]
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Graz Airport (IATA: GRZ, ICAO: LOWG), also known as Thalerhof, serves Graz, Austria. It is located in the municipalities of Feldkirchen and Kalsdorf, 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south[1] of Graz city centre.

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Transportation

The airport is within walking distance of Flughafen Graz-Feldkirchen railway station (about 4 minutes on foot, exit to the right of the platform), which lies on the Graz to Spielfeld-Straß line. The travel time to the airport from Graz main station is approximately 12 minutes by regional train.

Airport history

The construction of the airport began in 1913 with the construction of a grass runway and the first hangars; the airport saw its first flight in 1914. It was the site of the concentration camp, Talerhof, run by the governments of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Karl I of Austria. The first passenger domestic flight in Austria, in 1925, serviced the route Vienna–Graz–Klagenfurt. In 1937, the construction of a terminal building began due to increase in the number of passengers.

After the end of the Second World War, however, Austria was forbidden to possess an aviation fleet, either military or civil. After reopening of Austrian airspace in 1951, a new concrete runway of 1,500 metres (4,921 ft) was built in Graz. This runway was extended to 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) in 1962. The route network grew quickly and the first international scheduled flight started in 1966 with a connection to Frankfurt. In 1969, the runway was again extended, this time to 2,500 metres (8,202 ft), and construction of a new, more modern terminal building became necessary. Special highlights of the airport were the landings of the Concorde in 1981 and the Boeing 747 on the occasion of its 70th anniversary of opening in 1984. Ten years later, another new building was constructed with a capacity of maximum 750,000 passengers per year. The latest extension of the runway was to 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) in 1998.

In early 21st century, the number of passengers exceeded the 750,000-mark and in 2004 is just below 900,000. This led to the final extension of the current terminal building in 2003 and the construction of a second terminal in 2005.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air Berlin Berlin-Tegel
Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air [2] Antalya
Seasonal: Chania, Corfu, Karpathos, Reus, Zakynthos
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Vienna
InterSky Friedrichshafen
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine Frankfurt, Munich
Niki Seasonal: Antalya, Edinburgh, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Shannon, Sharm El Sheikh, Skiathos, Tenerife-South, Thira
Ryanair London-Stansted
SATA Air Açores Seasonal: Funchal, Ponta Delgada
Sky Airlines Antalya
SunExpress Antalya
Tunis Air Monastir, Enfidha
Welcome Air Seasonal: Olbia

References

  1. ^ a b EAD Basic
  2. ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

External links

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