Vienna International Airport

Vienna Airport

Flughafen Wien-Schwechat
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorFlughafen Wien AG
Serves
LocationSchwechat, Austria
Opened1938; 86 years ago (1938)
Hub forAustrian Airlines
Focus city forKorean Air Cargo
Operating base for
Elevation AMSL183 m / 600 ft
Coordinates48°06′39″N 016°34′15″E / 48.11083°N 16.57083°E / 48.11083; 16.57083
Websitewww.viennaairport.com
Maps
Airport map
Airport map
VIE is located in Austria
VIE
VIE
Location within Austria
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 3,500 11,483 Asphalt
16/34 3,600 11,811 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers29,533,186
Aircraft movements221,095
Cargo (including
road feeder service,
metric tons)
245,009
Source: Statistics[1]

Vienna Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) is an international airport serving Vienna, the capital of Austria. It is located in Schwechat, 18 km (11 mi) southeast of central Vienna and 57 kilometres (35 mi) west of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Its name in the Austrian Aeronautical Information Publication is Wien-Schwechat Airport.[2] It is the country's largest airport and serves as the hub for Austrian Airlines as well as a base for low-cost carriers Ryanair and Wizz Air. It is capable of handling wide-body aircraft up to the Airbus A380. The airport features a dense network of European destinations as well as long-haul flights to Asia, North America and Africa.

  1. ^ "Passagieraufkommen 2023". viennairport.com (in German). Flughafen Wien. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Luftfahrthandbuch Österreich" [AIP Austria] (in German and English). Austro Control Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mit beschränkter Haftung. Retrieved 9 July 2023.