Airport Information
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Vienna Schwechat International Airport
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Flughafen Wien-Schwechat
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VIE
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LOWW
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Public
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Flughafen Wien AG
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Vienna , Austria
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600
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183
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16/34
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11,811
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3,600
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Paved
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11/29
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11,483
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3,500
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Paved
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(German: ''Flughafen Wien-Schwechat''), located 18 Kilometer s (11 Mile s) southeast of Vienna , is the busiest and biggest 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 .
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 .
presents a unique laser show after dark]]
Presently, Vienna International Airport has three terminals. A provisory .
International Flights
''(Transit-Zone; Passport-control at entrance/exit of the hall; Gates with Jetbridges and Busgates)''
Europe(Schengen)-Flights
''(Busgates)''
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 A; Passengers arriving at the international hall A with an international connection-flight from one of the C-Gates use also the shuttlebus)''
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 was built, directly besides the World Trade Centre. 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 aircraft.
- 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 centre of Vienna with the airport in just 16 minutes, will receive a new underground railway station.
- Adria Airways (Frankfurt, Ljubljana)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa {Link without Title} )
- AirBaltic (Riga)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion, Kos, Madrid, Málaga, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air Moldova (Chişinău)
- Air One (Naples, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson) {Link without Title}
- Air Via (Bourgas)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Austrian Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Antalya, Athens, Baku, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Calvi, Cancún Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Corfu, Damascus, Delhi, Dnepropetrovsk, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Erbil, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Genoa, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Kiev-Boryspil, Lamezia, Larnaca [seasonal , Las Palmas, London-Heathrow, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Montego Bay, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, New York-JFK, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznan, Priština, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Sarajevo, Sharm El Sheik, Skopje, Sofia, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tbilisi, Tehran-Mehrabad, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tuzla, Varadero, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan, Zürich)
- --- Austrian Arrows operated by Tyrolean Airways (Altenrhein, Amsterdam, Ankara 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, Odessa, Podgorica, Prague, Priština 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)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
- Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas)
- Central Connect Airlines (Ostrava)
- China Airlines (Abu Dhabi, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb)
- Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- Dniproavia (Dnipropetrovsk)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- EVA Air (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Free Bird Airlines (Antalya)
- Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Stuttgart)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- KLM (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)
- --- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Verona)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- MAT Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
- Niki (Antalya, Faro, Frankfurt, Ibiza, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Madrid, Moscow-Domodedovo, 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, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Rossiya (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- SkyEurope (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest-Baneasa, Dubrovnik, Kraków October 28,2007 , Larnaca, Lisbon October 27, 2007 , Milan-Bergamo October 28, 2007 , Nice, Paris-Orly, Rimini, Sofia, Split, Thessaloniki, Timişoara October 28, 2007 , Treviso, Warsaw October 28,2007 , Zadar)
- Spanair (Madrid)
- SunExpress (Antalya)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Berlin-Schönefeld)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca)
- Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Samsun-Carsamba)
- Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa)
- Viaggio Air (Sofia)
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