Linz Airport
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| Linz Airport Blue Danube Airport |
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IATA: LNZ – ICAO: LOWL
 LNZ
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Tyrolean Airways | ||
| Location | Linz | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 977 ft / 298 m | ||
| Coordinates | 48°14′00″N 14°11′15″E / 48.2333333°N 14.1875°ECoordinates: 48°14′00″N 14°11′15″E / 48.2333333°N 14.1875°E | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 09/27 | 9,842 | 3,000 | Asphalt |
Linz Airport (IATA: LNZ, ICAO: LOWL), also known as Blue Danube Airport (and formerly Hörsching Airport), is an airport near Linz, Austria.
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[edit] History
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[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Berlin | Berlin-Tegel |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air [1] | Antalya, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Chania, Corfu, Karpathos, Rhodes, Santorini, Zakynthos |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Düsseldorf, Vienna Seasonal: Heraklion, Pristina |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Frankfurt |
| Niki | Seasonal: Antalya, Corfu, Edinburgh, Enfidha, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Samos, Shannon, Sharm el Sheik, Tenerife-South |
| Ryanair | London-Stansted |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| SunExpress | Antalya |
| Tunis Air | Enfidha |
[edit] Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| DHL Aviation operated by Atlantic Airlines | Leipzig/Halle, Ljubljana |
[edit] Public facilities
Linz Airport is relatively small with 11 gates. There is a shop and café in the entrance hall, together with the check-in and airline desks. Beyond the security checks there is a duty free shop and a small café accessible from both the domestic and international gate areas. There is a single-story covered car park.
[edit] Accidents and incidents
- On 8 January 1968, Douglas C-47B YU-ABK of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport was operating an international scheduled cargo flight from Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany to Pleso Airport, Zagreb, Yugoslavia when a fire developed in one of the engines. An attempt was made to divert to Hörsching Airport but the aircraft force landed short of the airport in a forest at Sankt Florian. All four people on board survived.[2]
[edit] External links
- Linz Airport (official site)
- Airport information for LOWL at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
[edit] References
- ^ Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)
- ^ "YU-ABK Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19680108-0. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
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