Vienna International Airport: Slight Decrease in Passengers

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: February 14, 2013; 15:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

Vienna Airport: Minus 1.7% in passengers during January 2013. “Unusually heavy snowstorms in eastern Austria responsible for decline.”

Vienna International Airport: Slight Decrease in Passengers / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The number of passengers handled by Vienna Airport fell by 1.7% year-on-year to 1,374,156 in January 2013. This decline resulted, above all, from unusually heavy snowstorms in eastern Austria on 17 January 2013 and the resulting massive impact on the entire area as well as the related limitations on air travel throughout Europe because of the severe winter weather at airports throughout…