Vienna International Airport

Vienna Airport

*Flughafen Wien-Schwechat*
Vienna Airport; Flughafen Wien-Schwechat
	IATA: VIE; ICAO: LOWW;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Flughafen Wien AG
Serves	Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia;
Location	Schwechat, Austria
Opened	1938
Hub for	Austrian Airlines
Focus city for	Korean Air Cargo
Operating base for	Ryanair; Wizz Air; (ends 15 March 2026)
Elevation AMSL	183 m / 600 ft
Coordinates	48°06′39″N 016°34′15″E / 48.11083°N 16.57083°E
Website	www.viennaairport.com
Maps
	; Airport map
	VIE Location within Austria
Runways
Statistics (2024)
Passengers
Passengers	31,719,836
Aircraft movements	234,138
Cargo (including; road feeder service,; metric tons)	297,945
	Source: Statistics

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 official name according to the Austrian Aeronautical Information Publication is Wien-Schwechat Airport.^[3] 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 and since April 2025 also for leisure airline Condor. 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.

^ https://www.wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/about-us/news/wizz-air-to-cease-base-operations-in-vienna
^ "Flughafen Wien - Presse & News". 19 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
^ "Luftfahrthandbuch Österreich" [AIP Austria] (in German and English). Austro Control Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mit beschränkter Haftung. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

[1] ttps://www.wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/about-us/news/wizz-air-to-cease-base-operations-in-vienna

[Flughafen_Wien-2] "Flughafen Wien - Presse & News". 19 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

[AIP_Austria-3] "Luftfahrthandbuch Österreich" [AIP Austria] (in German and English). Austro Control Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mit beschränkter Haftung. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

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