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Salzburg Airport

Flughafen Salzburg
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorSalzburger Flughafen GmbH
ServesSalzburg, Austria
Hub forEurowings Europe
Elevation AMSL430 m / 1,411 ft
Coordinates47°47′40″N 013°00′12″E / 47.79444°N 13.00333°E / 47.79444; 13.00333 (Salzburg Airport)
Websitesalzburg-airport.com
Map
SZG is located in Austria
SZG
SZG
Location of airport in Austria
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 2,750 9,022 Concrete
Statistics (2021)
Passengers299,845
Aircraft movements3,677
Cargo (including
road feeder service,
metric tons)		85,2
Sources: EUROCONTROL[1]
Statistics[2]

Salzburg Airport (IATA: SZG, ICAO: LOWS),[3] branded as Salzburg Airport W. A. Mozart, is Austria's second largest airport. It serves Salzburg, the fourth-largest Austrian city, and is a gateway to Austria's numerous ski areas. The airport is located 1.7 NM (3.1 km; 2.0 mi)[1] west-south-west of the Salzburg City centre and 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Austrian-German border. It is jointly owned by Salzburg Municipality (25%) and Salzburg State (75%).[4] The airport is named after the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Salzburg Airport has a small footprint, covering only 175 hectares (432 acres) of land but has a 2,750m runway equipped to handle aircraft as large as the Boeing 747-400.[5]

History

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Pre-World War II

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In 1910, the first powered aircraft taxied on to the new race track in Salzburg-Aigen. In 1926, Deutsche Luft Hansa inaugurated the Munich-Salzburg-Bad Reichenhall route. In 1927, the Vienna-Salzburg-Innsbruck route was started by ÖLAG (Austrian Aviation AG). In one of the earlier incidents Luft Hansa, which flew the London-Brussels-Frankfurt-Munich-Vienna route with Sabena, made a forced landing in Salzburg. 1939 saw the introduction of the Berlin-Prague-Salzburg-Venice and Munich-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Rijeka routes, which were planned for the summer schedule.[citation needed]

The war years

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At the start of World War II, on 1 September 1939, Salzburg Airport was seized and in 1943 the "Luftgaukommando VII" in Munich was put in charge of it. In the autumn of 1944 the newly developed fighter jet Messerschmitt Me 262 appeared. When the United States Air Force first bombed the city of Salzburg on 16 October 1944, with a subsequent 15 air attacks on the city, the airport remained undamaged. Salzburg Airport was the first Austrian airport to become a part of European scheduled traffic again.[citation needed]

Post war

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On 1 August 1958, a control tower was put into operation after a 15-month construction period and a new terminal was opened in 1966.

The airport reached the target of 1,265,000 passengers in 2000, and British Airways announced flights to Salzburg from London. These flights were cancelled a year later. Also in 2001, low-cost carrier Ryanair landed at Salzburg, its first Austrian destination. This was also the first time an Austrian airport hosted a low-cost carrier. Aer Lingus commenced flights to Salzburg from Dublin for their winter schedule in 2005. In 2006, Ryanair started services to Charleroi, which ended in 2007, and Dublin.

In spring 2014 the airport's home carrier Austrian Airlines announced the closure of their ticketing and service counters at Salzburg Airport due to decreasing demand. Additional services are instead provided directly at the check-in counters.[6]

In August 2016, German low-cost airline Eurowings announced it would open its second Austrian base in Salzburg, with flights to six European metropolitan destinations from January 2017.[7]

In May 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Wizz Air announced six new routes – beginning in July 2020 – creating new connections to the region. In the same time, Austrian Airlines announced the termination of their route from Salzburg to their hub at Vienna International Airport after 60 years,[8] partially due to the heavily expanded Railjet high-speed train connections between the cities.

Terminals

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Salzburg Airport consists of two passenger terminals:[9]

  • Terminal 1 is the main building, featuring 26 check-in desks, several service counters, some shops and restaurants and a visitors terrace. The airside area consists of 10 boarding gates that can be used for Schengen and non-Schengen destinations.[9] As there are no jet bridges, walk- and bus-boarding is used. There is a business lounge operated by Salzburg Airport.
  • Terminal 2 is much smaller, featuring nine additional check-in counters and four boarding gates, as well as a designated area to check in skiing equipment.[9] It has limited passenger facilities due to its use for seasonal peak-time traffic.

Airlines and destinations

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The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Salzburg Airport:[10]

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal charter: Dublin[11]
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga, Tallinn
Air Corsica Seasonal: Calvi[12]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[13]
Air Serbia Belgrade[14][15]
Avion Express Seasonal charter: Vilnius[16]
British Airways London–Gatwick[17]
Seasonal: London–City, London–Heathrow
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Antalya, Hurghada (resumes 1 November 2024)[18]
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam, Barcelona (begins 11 January 2025),[19] Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Naples (begins 7 December 2024)[20]
Eurowings Berlin, Cologne/Bonn,[12] Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hurghada
Seasonal: Burgas,[21] Calvi (begins 27 April 2025),[22] Copenhagen, Corfu, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, Marsa Alam,[23][24] Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki,[25] Zakynthos
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Dubai–International
flynas Seasonal: Riyadh
Iberia Seasonal: Madrid (begins 30 November 2024)[26][27]
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Israir Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv[28]
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester
Lufthansa Frankfurt[29]
Seasonal: London–Heathrow[30]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda[31]
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Ryanair London–Stansted
Seasonal: Dublin, Manchester
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Brussels,[32] Eindhoven, Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI Airways Seasonal: Belfast–International (begins 21 December 2024),[33] Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Wizz Air Bucharest–Otopeni,[34] London–Luton,[34] Skopje[34]

Statistics

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Aerial view
Apron overview
Annual passenger traffic at SZG airport. See Wikidata query.
Passenger statistics[35][36]
Year Passengers Change
2005 1,695,430
2006 1,878,266 Increase 10.8%
2007 1,946,422 Increase 3.6%
2008 1,809,601 Decrease 7.1%
2009 1,552,154 Decrease 14.3%
2010 1,625,842 Increase 4.8%
2011 1,700,989 Increase 4.6%
2012 1,666,487 Decrease 3.0%
2013 1,662,834 Decrease 0.2%
2014 1,819,520 Increase 9.4%
2015 1,828,309 Increase 0,5%
2016 1,739,288 Decrease 5,1%
2017 1,890,164 Increase 8,7%
2018 1,844,362 Decrease 2,5%
2019 1,717,991 Decrease 7,4%
2020 669,790 Decrease 61,0%
2021 299,846 Decrease 55,2%
2022 1,229,495 Increase 410,0%
2023 1,604,601 Increase 31,3%

Ground transport

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The airport is located 3 km from the city centre. Salzburg trolleybus lines 2 and 10, each with service every 10 minutes, connect the airport to the rest of Salzburg's public transport system. The main station is reachable in about 25 minutes and the inner city in about 30 minutes.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "EUROCONTROL basic". Archived from the original on 17 October 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
  2. ^ "Kommerzielle Zivilluftfahrt 2021: Passagieraufkommen um 20,3% gestiegen, aber noch immer deutlich unter Vorkrisenniveau" [Commercial civil aviation 2021: Passenger traffic up 20.3%, but still well below pre-crisis levels.] (PDF; 66 KB). statistik.at (in German). Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich. 24 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Aerodrome availability" (PDF). AIP Austria (in German and English). Austro Control Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mbH. p. 31. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Geschäftsbericht 2021 (Annual Report 2021)" (PDF). Salzburg Airport (in German). Salzburg: Salzburger Flughafen GmbH. June 2022. p. 11. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Technical Data About Salzburg Airport". salzburg-airport.com.en. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  6. ^ "AUA schließt Ticketschalter auf den Bundesländer-Flughäfen". 16 January 2014.
  7. ^ aero.de - "Eurowings Europe starts in Salzburg" (German) 18 August 2016
  8. ^ austrianaviation.net (German) 9. June 2020
  9. ^ a b c "Salzburg Airport: General Parking Information". www.salzburg-airport.com.
  10. ^ salzburg-airport.com - Seasonal schedule retrieved 5 July 2020
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Charters W16/17 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ a b "Summer 2023 schedule - Salzburg Airport" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Air France sets course for Salzburg and Innsbruck". 15 September 2022.
  14. ^ "Air Serbia finalises summer expansion with three new routes". 28 January 2022.
  15. ^ "Air Serbia downgrades Salzburg service over winter". 29 November 2022.
  16. ^ "Avion Express Adds Vilnius – Salzburg in 1Q24". AeroRoutes. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  17. ^ "British Airways Adds Five New Short-Haul Services to ITS London Gatwick Network".
  18. ^ https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240903-xrnw24szghrg
  19. ^ "EasyJet anuncia 60 nuevas rutas para la próxima temporada de invierno, incluidas 9 desde y hacia España |". 11 June 2024.
  20. ^ "EasyJet annuncia 60 nuove rotte per la prossima stagione. 10 da e per l'Italia. 6 da Napoli". 11 June 2024.
  21. ^ "Salzburg: Eurowings Europe takes on Burgas". 23 January 2024.
  22. ^ "Eurowings NS25 Network Additions – 23OCT24". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  23. ^ "Salzburg: Eurowings neu im Winter 2023/24 nach Marsa Alam". 17 July 2023.
  24. ^ "New Routes and Destinations". 6 December 2022.
  25. ^ "New direct flights with Eurowings".
  26. ^ "Tromso y Salzburgo, los dos nuevos destinos de Iberia". 8 April 2024.
  27. ^ "Iberia Adds Seasonal Salzburg Service in NW24". Aeroroutes.
  28. ^ "Israir NS24 Leased Smartwings Boeing 737 Operations". AeroRoutes. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  29. ^ https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240715-tglhcodeshare [bare URL]
  30. ^ "Lufthansa Expands London Heathrow Seasonal Routes from Mid-Dec 2023". AeroRoutes. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  31. ^ "Norwegian Resumes 4 Seasonal Routes from Stockholm in NW22".
  32. ^ "Book a Flight". Transavia.
  33. ^ "Flight Timetable". TUI.
  34. ^ a b c "Wizz Air: Ungarische Airline kehrt nach Salzburg zurück und fliegt in den Balkan". 23 November 2023.
  35. ^ "Annual Statistics for Salzburg Airport W.A." salzburg-airport.com. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  36. ^ "Passagierzahlen am Flughafen Salzburg stark angestiegen" [Passenger figures strongly increased] (in German). salzburg24.at. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
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