The wanderlust of the Austrian population has again increased considerably this year. In the first half of 2023, Vienna Airport registered a 44.3 percent increase in passenger numbers to a total of 13.3 million travelers compared to the previous year.
Yet these figures are still 9.1 percent below the 2019 level before the corona pandemic. In the first half of the year, a total of 17.0 million passengers were carried in the Flughafen Wien Group (Vienna, Kosice, Malta).
103,292 takeoffs and landings
The number of local passengers in Vienna increased by 45 percent to 10.3 million, while the number of transfer passengers increased by 42.7 percent to almost 3.0 million. There were a total of 103,292 take-offs and landings, an increase of 27.5 percent compared to the first half of 2022. However, cargo volume fell by three percent to 120,257 tons.
In June alone, 2.8 million travelers were handled at Vienna Airport, which corresponds to an increase of 18.2 percent. Of these, approximately 2.2 million were local passengers and 672,660 were transfer passengers. The number of passengers to Western Europe rose by 14.4 percent to 990,058 in June, while 249,863 people traveled to Eastern Europe (+11.9 percent).
45,906 passengers (plus 20.9 percent) traveled to North America and 23,063 (plus 12.8 percent) to Africa. The number of passengers to the Near and Middle East was 78,329 (+49.1 percent) and to the Far East 40,154 (+302.1 percent).
Source: Krone
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