Salzburg Airport

Salzburg Airport (IATA: SZG, ICAO: LOWS), branded as Salzburg Airport Wolfgang Amadeus  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)[2] west-south-west of Salzburg city centre and 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Austrian-German border. It is jointly owned by Salzburg municipality (25%) and Salzburg Province (75%).[4] The airport is named after the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Salzburg Airport

Flughafen Salzburg[1]
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
Websitesalzburg-airport.com
Map
SZG is located in Austria
SZG
SZG
Location of airport in Austria
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[2]
Statistics[3]

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

Pre-World War II

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.

The war years

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.

Post war

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

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

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

AirlinesDestinations
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga, Tallinn
Air Corsica Seasonal: Calvi[11]
Air France Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle[12]
Air Serbia Belgrade[13][14]
Avion Express Seasonal charter: Vilnius (begins 3 February 2024)[15]
British Airways Seasonal: London–City, London–Gatwick,[16] London–Heathrow
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Antalya
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam, Birmingham (begins 13 January 2024),[17] Bristol, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Luton
Eurowings Berlin, Cologne/Bonn,[11] Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hurghada
Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 1 December 2023),[18] Copenhagen, Corfu, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, Marsa Alam (begins 26 October 2023),[19][20] Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki,[21] Zakynthos
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Dubai–International
flynas Seasonal: Riyadh
Icelandair Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Jet2.com Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lübeck Air Lübeck[22]
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Seasonal: London–Heathrow (begins 16 December 2023)[23]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda[24]
Play Seasonal: Reykjavík–Keflavík
Ryanair London–Stansted
Seasonal: Dublin, Manchester
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen
Transavia Amsterdam
Seasonal: Brussels,[25] Eindhoven, Rotterdam/The Hague
TUI Airways Seasonal: Belfast–International (begins 21 December 2024),[26] Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Seasonal: Ordu/Giresun[27]

Statistics
Aerial view
Apron overview
Annual passenger traffic at SZG airport. See Wikidata query.
Passenger statistics[28]
YearPassengersChange
20051,695,430
20061,878,266Increase 10.8%
20071,946,422Increase 3.6%
20081,809,601Decrease 7.1%
20091,552,154Decrease 14.3%
20101,625,842Increase 4.8%
20111,700,989Increase 4.6%
20121,666,487Decrease 3.0%
20131,662,834Decrease 0.2%
20141,819,520Increase 9.4%

Ground transport

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

References
  1. "Aerodrome availability" (PDF). AIP Austria (in German and English). Austro Control Österreichische Gesellschaft für Zivilluftfahrt mbH. p. 31. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. "EUROCONTROL basic".
  3. "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.
  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. "Salzburg Airport: General Parking Information". www.salzburg-airport.com.
  10. salzburg-airport.com - Seasonal schedule retrieved 5 July 2020
  11. "Summer 2023 schedule - Salzburg Airport" (PDF).
  12. "Air France sets course for Salzburg and Innsbruck". 15 September 2022.
  13. "Air Serbia finalises summer expansion with three new routes". 28 January 2022.
  14. "Air Serbia downgrades Salzburg service over winter". 29 November 2022.
  15. "Avion Express Adds Vilnius – Salzburg in 1Q24". AeroRoutes. 25 October 2023. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  16. "British Airways Adds Five New Short-Haul Services to ITS London Gatwick Network".
  17. https://www.easyjet.com/en/routemap
  18. "Eurowings start lijndienst van Schiphol naar Salzburg" [Eurowings starts service from Schiphol to Salzburg]. Luchtvaartnieuws (in Dutch). 4 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  19. https://aviation.direct/salzburg-eurowings-neu-im-winter-2023-24-nach-marsa-alam
  20. "New Routes and Destinations". 6 December 2022.
  21. "New direct flights with Eurowings".
  22. "Neuer Flug: Von Lübeck zum Airport Scandinavian Mountains".
  23. "Lufthansa Expands London Heathrow Seasonal Routes from Mid-Dec 2023". AeroRoutes. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  24. "Norwegian Resumes 4 Seasonal Routes from Stockholm in NW22".
  25. https://www.transavia.com/en-EU/book-a-flight/flights/search/#
  26. https://www.tui.co.uk/flight/timetable
  27. "Home". 28 October 2021.
  28. "Passenger Statistics for Salzburg Airport".

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