Vienna Airport: Slight Increase in Passengers

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: June 15, 2011; 13:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

More than 1.9 million passengers were handled by Austria’s biggest airport in May 2011. Cargo traffic declined by 14.5%.

Vienna Airport: Slight Increase in Passengers / Picture: © Vienna Airport / Flughafen Wien AG

Vienna Airport reported gains in traffic for May 2011: The number of passengers handled rose by 6.5% year-on-year to 1,904,752. The number of transfer passengers rose by 5.6% in comparison with May 2010, amounting to 556,898 persons.

Maximum take-off weight (MTOW) increased by 2.2%, while flight movements and cargo declined by 0.2% and 14.5%, respectively.

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