| Vienna International Airport Flughafen Wien-Schwechat |
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| IATA: VIE – ICAO: LOWW | |||
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| Airport type | Private | ||
| Operator | Flughafen Wien AG | ||
| Serves | Vienna, Austria ; Bratislava, Slovakia | ||
| Location | Schwechat, Austria | ||
| Hub for | Austrian Airlines Niki |
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| Elevation AMSL | 183 m / 600 ft | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 11/29 | 3,500 | 11,483 | Asphalt |
| 16/34 | 3,600 | 11,811 | Asphalt |
| Source: Austrian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1] | |||
Vienna International Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) (German: Flughafen Wien), located in Schwechat and 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of central Vienna, is the busiest and biggest airport in Austria. It is often referred to as Schwechat, the name of the county it is in. The airport is capable of handling wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A340. The airport is the hub of Austrian Airlines and its subsidiaries, as well as Niki.
During 2009, the airport handled a total of 18,114,103 passengers, representing a 8.3% decrease compared to 2008.[2] In 2010, the airport handled 19,691,206 passengers, an 8.7% increase over 2009.[3]
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Originally built as a military airport in 1908, it was taken over by the British in 1945. In 1954, the Betriebsgesellschaft was founded, and the airport replaced Aspern as Vienna's (and Austria's) principal aerodrome. There was just one runway, which in 1959 was expanded to measure 3,000 metres (9,843 ft). The erection of the new airport building starting in 1919. In 1972 another runway was built. In 1982 the airport was connected to the national motorway network (Ostautobahn). The airport received Olympic teams as Austria has twice hosted the Winter Olympics. Pope John Paul II also used the airport during his visits to Austria. On December 27, 1985, the El Al ticket counter was attacked by Palestinians terrorists. (See Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.) In 1986, the enlarged arrivals hall was opened and in 1988, Pier East with 8 jetbridges. In 1992, the new terminal 1 was opened and a year later the PLAZA Shopping mall in the transit area. In 1996, Pier West was opened with 12 jetbridges. The airport formerly featured a Harrods, but it closed in 2003.
Presently, Vienna International Airport has three terminals: The main terminals 1 and 2 and a provisional terminal 1A, built to offer more space for low-cost carriers. In addition to these terminals Vienna also has a unique VIP Terminal. In 2004, the airport started building a new terminal, SKYLINK, which will make the airport more capable of dealing with higher passenger volumes (2010: 19.7 million). This new terminal will also make the airport capable of handling more and bigger aircraft, although accomodating the Airbus A380 will require further upgrades. All Terminals are operated by Fraport, Vienna Airport Handling, Swissport and Austrian Airlines. After completion of SKYLINK, Austrian Airlines and its partners will move to the new Terminal.
Hall D (formerly Hall A) ("Pier East"): Gates D21–D29 (only Jetbridges), D31–D37 (only Buses), D61–D70 (only Buses) International Flights
(Transit-Zone; Passport-control at entrance/exit of the hall; Gates with Jetbridges and Busgates)
Hall B: B22–B43 Europe (Schengen) Flights
(Busgates)
Hall C ("Pier West"): C31–C42 (only Jetbridges; Gates C35–C41 Transfer Gates), C71–C75 (only Buses) Europe (Schengen) Flights, partial international flights
(Gates with Jetbridges; Several gates are used for Europe (Schengen) flights and also for international flights; for international flights: Gates are called Transfergates; Passport control at the respective gates; passengers from international-to-international flights are going at arrival at one of the C-Gates, in front of the immigration-passport-control, to the transitzone to ground-floor, where they have access to other International Flights from the C-Gates and a shuttlebus-connection to the international hall D; Passengers arriving at the international hall D with an international connection-flight from one of the C-Gates use also the shuttlebus) New Busgates C71 to C75 opened on 2 April 2008, access via Gate C31, only Schengen-Operations
The Vienna S-Bahn S7 (Stopping at all stations from Floridsdorf Station until Rennweg Station, and usually all intermediate stops on the airport branch ) line stops at the airport. The more expensive CAT (City Airport Train) connects the airport directly to the Wien Mitte station close to the city center, where S-Bahn trains also stop but take a slightly longer time because of 7 intermediate stops. There are also many buses from the airport to various places in Vienna and to other cities; however, the S-Bahn line is the only means of transport from Vienna to the airport on which the standard integrated tickets for the Vienna region are valid (as a result, they also allow further travelling by underground, bus or tram, which the CAT tickets don't).
After the construction of Main Railway Station, a line called "S70" is scheduled to be opened which will connect the airport to that railway station, so that the frequency of S-Bahn trains becomes higher than the current 30 minutes. There are no plans to extend any underground line to the airport although it has sometimes been proposed to extend line U3 (currently terminating at Simmering) there; this would be the first underground line extending beyond Vienna's city limits.
Because of its constant growth in passenger numbers and freight, Vienna International Airport has decided to enlarge Austria's biggest airport with several new and respectively adapted buildings.
Following concerns over the mismanagement of the VIE-Skylink project, chief executive Herbert Kaufman agreed to resign at the end of December 2010.[5]
Vienna is served by the following scheduled airlines:
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Adria Airways | Ljubljana |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Nuremberg |
| Air Dolomiti | Verona |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse [begins 1 April 2012] |
| Air Malta | Malta |
| Air Moldova | Chiṣinău |
| AirBaltic | Riga |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Alitalia operated by Air One | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Austrian Airlines | Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Arbil, Astana, Athens, Baghdad, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Beijing-Capital, Belgrade, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June], Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Damascus [resumes 25 March 2012], Delhi, Dnepropetrovsk, Dubai, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Funchal, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofia, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tenerife-South, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli [resumes 25 March], Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zagreb, Zürich Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Faro, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Naples, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Split, Thessaloniki |
| Austrian operated by Lauda Air [6] | Antalya, Bristol [begins 24 December],Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Luxor, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Bodrum, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Funchal, Heraklion, Karpathos, Kavala, Kos, Lesbos, Malaga, Mykonos, Naples, Preveza, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Thessaloniki, Zakynthos |
| Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways | Altenrhein, Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June], Berlin-Tegel [ends 2 June], Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Chişinău, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Graz, Iaşi, Innsbruck, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kharkov, Kiev-Boryspil, Klagenfurt, Košice, Kraków, Krasnodar, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Lviv, Lyon, Minsk, Munich, Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Podgorica, Prague, Reus, Salzburg, Sibiu, Skopje, Sochi, Sofia, St Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Stuttgart, Timişoara, Tirana, Varna, Venice-Marco Polo, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb Seasonal: Athens, Barcelona, Bucharest-Otopeni, Burgas, Hamburg, Milan-Malpensa, Pristina, Rostov-on-Don, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Zürich |
| Belle Air | Skopje, Pristina |
| BMI | London-Heathrow |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| Brussels Airlines | Brussels |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia |
| Central Connect Airlines | Ostrava |
| China Airlines | Taipei-Taoyuan |
| Cirrus Airlines | Dresden |
| Condor | Punta Cana |
| Croatia Airlines | Zagreb Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split |
| EasyJet | London-Gatwick |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| EgyptAir | Cairo |
| El Al | Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| Estonian Air | Tallinn [begins 25 March 2012] |
| EVA Air | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Taipei-Taoyuan |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| InterSky | Friedrichshafen |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon, Zurich |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| LOT operated by EuroLOT | Kraków |
| Lufthansa | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings |
Düsseldorf |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine |
Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica |
| Niki | Barcelona, Belgrade, Bucharest-Otopeni, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Hurghada, Lanzarote, Malaga, Marsa Alam, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el-Sheikh, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tenerife-South, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion [begins 20 February 2012], Valencia, Zürich Seasonal: Antalya, Cagliari, Corfu, Edinburgh, Funchal, Heraklion, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Luxor, Mahón, Olbia, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Rhodes, Samos, Shannon, Zakynthos |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen |
| OLT Jetair | Heringsdorf [begins 6 June 2012] |
| Pegasus Airlines | Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Samsun |
| Pegasus operated by IZair | Izmir |
| People's Viennaline | Altenrhein |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| RAK Airways | Charter: Ras Al Khaimah |
| Rossiya | St Petersburg |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia |
| Sky Work Airlines | Berne |
| SunExpress | Antalya, İzmir, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen |
| Syrian Air | Berlin-Schönefeld, Damascus |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Zürich |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| transavia.com | Rotterdam |
| Tunisair | Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Turkish Airlines operated by Anadolujet |
Ankara |
| Ukraine International | Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa |
| Ural Airlines | Chelyabinsk |
| Vueling Airlines | Barcelona |
Additionally, several airlines operate charter flights out of the airport, including Air VIA, Arkia Israel Airlines, Bulgarian Air Charter, Freebird Airlines, Sky Airlines and SunExpress.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air China Cargo | Beijing-Capital, Milan-Malpensa, Shanghai-Pudong |
| Asiana Cargo | Frankfurt, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Seoul-Incheon, Moscow-Domodedovo |
| China Southern Airlines | Amsterdam, Shanghai-Pudong |
| DHL Aviation operated by European Air Transport | Brussels |
| Farnair Hungary | Timişoara |
| FedEx Express | Budapest, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Korean Air Cargo | Brussels, Copenhagen, Seoul-Incheon, Milan-Malpensa, Basel/Mulhouse, Navoi, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Oslo |
| Royal Jordanian Cargo | Amman-Queen Alia |
| TNT Airways | Liege |
| UPS Airlines | Budapest, Cologne/Bonn |
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