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{{Infobox Airport| name = Vienna Schwechat International Airport| nativename = Flughafen Wien-Schwechat| nativename-a =| nativename-r =| image =| image-width =| caption =| IATA = VIE| ICAO = LOWW| type = Public| owner =| operator = Flughafen Wien AG| city-served = Vienna, Austria, Austrias (11 [miles) 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 (airline).
History
Originally built as a military airport in 1938, it was taken over by the United Kingdom 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 terrorism. (See
Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.)
The airport formerly featured a Harrods, but it closed in
2003.
presents a unique laser show after dark
Terminals
Presently, Vienna International Airport has three terminals. A provisory
Airport terminal (1A) was built to offer more space 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: 16.9 million). This new terminal will also make the airport capable of handling bigger aircraft, such as the Airbus A380.
Concourses
Hall A ("Pier East"):International Flights
(Transit-Zone; Passport-control at entrance/exit of the hall; Gates with Jetbridges and Busgates)Hall B:Europe(Schengen)-Flights
(Busgates)Halle C ("Pier West"):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)
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 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 Airport 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.
Airlines and destinations
- Adria Airways (Frankfurt, Ljubljana)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa )
- airBaltic (Riga)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Münster/Osnabrück, Nürnberg, Stuttgart)
- Air China (Beijing) October 2009
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air Moldova (Chişinău)
- Air One (Naples, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Air Via (Bourgas)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Austrian Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Antalya, Astana, 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 , 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-Imam Khomaini , 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 , Nice, Nuremberg, Odessa, Podgorica, Prague, Priština , Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Sibiu, Skopje, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki , 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)
- Easy Jet (London-Luton)
- Emirates Airline (Dubai)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- El Al Israel Airlines (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 Airlines (Madrid)
- InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad October 28, 2007)
- 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)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- MAT Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
- Niki (airline) (Antalya, Faro, Frankfurt, Ibiza, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich November 5, 2007, Nürnberg, 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 (airline) (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai Pudong) [Starts Fall/Spring 2008)
- 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)
- Spanair (Madrid)
- SunExpress (Antalya)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Berlin-Schönefeld)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu October 28)
- Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Samsun-Carsamba)
- Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa)
- Viaggio Air (Sofia)
Cargo airlines
External links
- Vienna International Airport Homepage
{{Infobox Airport| name = Vienna Schwechat International Airport| nativename = Flughafen Wien-Schwechat| nativename-a =| nativename-r =| image =| image-width =| caption =| IATA = VIE| ICAO = LOWW| type = Public| owner =| operator = Flughafen Wien AG| city-served =
Vienna, Austria,
Austrias (11 [miles) 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 (airline).
History
Originally built as a military airport in
1938, it was taken over by the
United Kingdom 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 terrorism. (See
Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks.)
The airport formerly featured a Harrods, but it closed in
2003.
presents a unique laser show after dark
Terminals
Presently, Vienna International Airport has three terminals. A provisory
Airport terminal (1A) was built to offer more space 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: 16.9 million). This new terminal will also make the airport capable of handling bigger aircraft, such as the Airbus A380.
Concourses
Hall A ("Pier East"):International Flights
(Transit-Zone; Passport-control at entrance/exit of the hall; Gates with Jetbridges and Busgates)Hall B:Europe(Schengen)-Flights
(Busgates)Halle C ("Pier West"):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)
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 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 Airport 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.
Airlines and destinations
- Adria Airways (Frankfurt, Ljubljana)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- African Safari Airways (Mombasa )
- airBaltic (Riga)
- Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Münster/Osnabrück, Nürnberg, Stuttgart)
- Air China (Beijing) October 2009
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Malta (Malta)
- Air Moldova (Chişinău)
- Air One (Naples, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Air Transat (Montréal, Toronto-Pearson)
- Air Via (Bourgas)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Austrian Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Antalya, Astana, 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 , 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-Imam Khomaini , 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 , Nice, Nuremberg, Odessa, Podgorica, Prague, Priština , Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov-on-Don, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Sibiu, Skopje, Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki , 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)
- Easy Jet (London-Luton)
- Emirates Airline (Dubai)
- EgyptAir (Cairo)
- El Al Israel Airlines (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 Airlines (Madrid)
- InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad October 28, 2007)
- KLM (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)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- MAT Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
- Niki (airline) (Antalya, Faro, Frankfurt, Ibiza, Málaga, Marsa Alam, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich November 5, 2007, Nürnberg, 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 (airline) (St. Petersburg, Moscow)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Shanghai Airlines (Shanghai Pudong) [Starts Fall/Spring 2008)
- 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)
- Spanair (Madrid)
- SunExpress (Antalya)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Aleppo, Berlin-Schönefeld)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu October 28)
- Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Samsun-Carsamba)
- Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil, Odessa)
- Viaggio Air (Sofia)
Cargo airlines
- European Air Transport (Brussels)
- TNT Airways (Liege)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)
External links
- Vienna International Airport Homepage
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