Slight Increase in Passengers for Vienna Airport

Vienna Airport handled around 24.6 million passengers in the first nine months. This was 1.9 percent more passengers than in the previous year, Vienna Airport announced on Tuesday. In the entire Vienna Airport Group (Vienna Airport, Malta Airport, and Kosice Airport), passenger numbers increased by 4.0 percent to 32.9 million travelers.

In Vienna, the number of local passengers increased by 2.8 percent to 19.3 million, while the number of transfer passengers decreased by 3.6 percent to 5.1 million. The number of take-offs and landings increased by 2.4 percent to around 181,600.

Around 3.1 Million Passengers in September at Vienna Airport

In September alone, the number of passengers in Vienna was around 3.1 million (plus 2.2 percent), of which around 2.4 million were local passengers and just under 700,000 were transfer passengers. To Western Europe, 1,062,599 people traveled, about the same as in the previous year. To Eastern Europe, a total of 253,763 passengers traveled (plus 1.8 percent), to North America the airport recorded 54,675 travelers (minus 0.3 percent), and to Africa 26,657 (plus 10.1 percent) people. Passenger traffic to the Near and Middle East increased significantly by 18.6 percent to 79,772 passengers. The Far East also recorded a clear increase of 13.8 percent to 54,739 travelers.

The entire group recorded a passenger increase of 4.1 percent to around 4.2 million travelers in September.

(APA/Red)

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