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Vienna International Airport

Vienna, Austria, Bratislava, Slovakia

  • IATAVIE
  • ICAOLOWW
326 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Vienna, Austria, Bratislava, Slovakia
Operator
Flughafen Wien AG
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
1938
Elevation
600 ft (183 m)
Runways
2 (longest 3,600 m)
Airlines based here
Austrian Airlines

About the airport

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. It is the country's largest airport and serves as the hub for Austrian Airlines as well as a base for low-cost carrier Ryanair 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.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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