Vienna International Airport

Vienna Schwechat International Airport
IATA: VIE - ICAO: LOWW
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Operator</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Flughafen Wien AG</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Vienna, Austria</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		600 ft (183 m)
Coordinates		48°6′37″N, 16°34′11″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
16/34	11,811	3,600	Paved
11/29	11,483	3,500	Paved

Vienna Schwechat International Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) (German: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat), located 18 kilometers (11 miles) southeast of Vienna, is the busiest airport in Austria. It is often referred to as Schwechat, the name of the nearby town. 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 budget airline Niki.

History

Originally built as a military airport in 1938, 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. The erection of the new airport building starting in 1960. In 1972 another runway was built.

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 Palestinian terrorists. (See Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.)

The airport formerly featured a Harrods, but it closed in 2003.

Terminals

Presently, Vienna International Airport has two (actually three) terminals. A provisory Terminal (1A) was built to offer more place for low cost carriers. In 2006, the airport started building a new terminal, SKYLINK, which will make the airport more capable of dealing with higher passenger volumes (2006: 17.3 million). This new Terminal will also make the airport capable of handling bigger aircraft, such as the Airbus A380.

Masterplan 2015

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.

• New Tower: A new Tower was built, directly besides the World Trade Center. With its 109 meters of height, it allows a free overlook of the entire airport area and it offers another spectacular sight: a night laser show, which should welcome the passengers even from the airplane.

• New Terminal: Due to constant passenger and freight growth, Vienna International Airport has planned to build another Terminal, SKYLINK, which should be able to compensate higher passenger rates. Construction started in 2006 and will last until late 2008. If there is still an enormous amount of passenger growth, the Masterplan 2015 sees an enlargement of SKYLINK.

• Third Runway: Due to higher aviation rates, a third runway will be necessary for the airport. A mediation process was held, and the start of the construction of the third runway will be in 2009.

• Railway station: The underground railway station will be enlarged and a connection to Bratislava will be constructed. Additionally the CAT, City Airport Train, which connects the center of Vienna with the airport in just 16 minutes, will receive a new underground railway station.

Airlines

The following airlines fly to Vienna International Airport:

• Adria Airways (Frankfurt, Ljubljana)
• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Aer Lingus (Dublin)
• airBaltic (Riga)
• Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion, Kos, Málaga, Munster/Osnabruck, Nuremberg)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air Malta (Malta)
• Air Moldova (Chişinău)
• Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson) [seasonal, starts 5 May 2007]
• Air Via (Bourgas)
• Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Austrian Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Antalya, Athens, Baku, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Calvi, Cancún [seasonal], Chicago-O'Hare [starts 30 May 2007], Colombo [ends April 2007], Copenhagen, Corfu, Damascus, Delhi, Dnepropetrovsk, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Erbil [begins Dec. 11], Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Genoa, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Kathmandu [ends May 2007], Kiev-Boryspil, Kuala Lumpur [ends March 2007], Lamezia, Larnaca [seasonal], Las Palmas, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Male [ends April 2007], Mauritius [seasonal, ends April 2007], Melbourne [ends March 2007], Milan-Malpensa, Montego Bay, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, New York-JFK, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phuket [seasonal, ends April 2007], Poznan, Priština, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Sarajevo, Shanghai-Pudong [ends 7 January, 2007], Sharm El Sheik, Singapore [ends March 2007], Skopje, Sofia, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sydney [ends March 2007], Tbilisi, Tehran-Mehrabad, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto, Tuzla, Varadero, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
  • Austrian Arrows operated by Tyrolean Airways (Altenrhein, Amsterdam, Ankara [seasonal], Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Chişinău, Cluj, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dnepropetrovsk, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Graz, Hamburg, Hanover, Helsinki, Iaşi, Innsbruck, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kharkov, Kiev-Boryspil, Klagenfurt, Kosice, Krakow, Krasnodar, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, London-Heathrow, Luxembourg, Lviv, Lyon, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Munich, Newcastle [seasonal], Nice, Nuremberg, Podgorica, Prague, Priština [seasonal], Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Sibiu, Skopje, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Timişoara, Tirana, Tripoli, Turin, Varna, Venice, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zürich)
• Belavia (Minsk)
• Blu-express (Rome-Fiumicino)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow)
  • BA Connect (Manchester)
• Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
• Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas)
• China Airlines (Abu Dhabi, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
• Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb)
• Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
• Czech Airlines (Prague)
• Delta Air Lines (Atlanta [starts 22 May 2007])
• Emirates (Dubai)
• EgyptAir (Cairo)
• El Al (Tel Aviv)
• European Air Transport (Brussels)
• EVA Air (Bangkok, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
• Finnair (Helsinki)
• Free Bird Airlines (Antalya)
• Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
• Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
• Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
• InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
• Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
• Jat Airways (Belgrade, Niš)
• Job Air (Ostrava)
• KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
  • KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
• Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
• LOT Polish Airlines (Krakow, Warsaw)
• LTU (Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh)
• LTU Austria (Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Salzberg, Samos)
• Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart)
  • Air Dolomiti (Verona)
• Luxair (Luxembourg)
• MAT Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• MNG Airlines (Antalya)
• Niki (Antalya, Faro, Frankfurt, Ibiza, London-Stansted, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm El Sheikh, Zürich)
• Olympic Airlines (Athens)
• Onur Air (Istanbul-Atatürk)
• Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman)
• Qatar Airways (Doha)
• Royal Jordanian (Amman)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
  • SAS Braathens (Oslo [ends April, 2007])
• SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
• Spanair (Madrid)
• SunExpress (Antalya)
• Syrianair (Aleppo, Berlin-Schönefeld)
• Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
• Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj, Sibiu)
• TNT Airways (Liege)
• Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
• Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
• Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Samsun-Carsamba)
• Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil)
• Viaggio Air (Sofia)

External links

• Vienna International Airport Homepage

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