Wien-Schwechat International Airport

Vienna International Airport Vienna Airport Wien-Schwechat airport Flughafen Wien-Schwechat
IATA: VIE ICAO: LOWW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Flughafen Wien AG
Serves	Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia
Location	Schwechat, Austria
Hub for	Austrian Airlines Eurowings Europe
Focus city for	Asiana Cargo easyJet Europe Korean Air Cargo Wizz Air (from 27 April 2018)
Elevation AMSL	183 m / 600 ft
Coordinates	48°06′37″N 016°34′11″E / 48.11028°N 16.56972°E / 48.11028; 16.56972Coordinates: 48°06′37″N 016°34′11″E / 48.11028°N 16.56972°E / 48.11028; 16.56972
Website	viennaairport.com
Maps
Airport map
VIE Location within Austria
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 11/29 3,500 11,483 Asphalt 16/34 3,600 11,811 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Aircraft movements 224,568 0.8% Passengers 24,392,805 4.5% Freight (including road feeder service, metric tons) 287,962 1.9%
Source: Flughafen Wien AG

Vienna International Airport (German: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat; IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) is the international airport of Vienna, the capital of Austria, located in Schwechat, 18 km (11 mi) southeast of central Vienna and 57 km west of Bratislava. It is the country's largest airport and serves as the hub for Austrian Airlines and a base for Eurowings Europe. 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. During 2017, the airport handled 24.4 million passengers, a 4.5% increase compared to 2016.

Originally built as a military airport in 1938, and used during World War II as the Heinkel firm's southern military aircraft design and production complex, or Heinkel-Süd facility, it was taken over by the British in 1945 and became RAF Schwechat under the occupation of the country. 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 m (9,843 ft). The erection of the new airport building starting in 1959.

In 1972 another runway was built. In 1982 the airport was connected to the national motorway network (Ostautobahn). In 1986 the enlarged arrivals hall was opened, and in 1988 Pier East with 8 jetbridges.