Airports: Vienna International Our airport Vienna-Schwechat International Airport is called even, but in reality it is more like a provincial airport. This time we were lucky and flew off to a normal day - had since then, all restaurants and shops open. We have also experienced it differently.
Positive However, it worked everything well, we were able to enjoy food and drink and not too long before the departure had to.
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Airport Vienna-Schwechat, international and Vienna International Airport called, is the largest and best-known Austrian airport. It is located about 18 miles southeast of downtown Vienna Schwechat in Lower Austria and is the home airport of the Austrian Airline Airlines.
The airport was built in 1938 as a military airfield of the Air Force and the German Reich as "Air Force Base Schwechat - East" "Heidfeld" / designated. Groundbreaking was on 14 May 1938. There were five halls, an aircraft maintenance facility, several team building and a large garage built. It was housed, the fighter school 5th Later, the air base to the Heinkel-Werke (Rostock) released, which produced here from mid-1942 aircraft (the He 219, He 162 "people hunters"). To this end, a bullet and a Kompensierscheibe plant were built - even came to several warehouses. The entire Heinkel-planning office was moved here. Parts the airport served from 7 December 1944 as a concentration camp (KZ-Schwechat II "Santa"), placed in the prisoners were working for the Heinkel works as well for the brewery Liesing / "Ostmärkische Brau AG. In 1945 the site was taken over by the British allies. Prior to 1945 2007 three hangars were obtained at the airfield, the former administration building is now home to the Lauda Air
1954, the operating company founded and took over the role of the former Vienna-Aspern airfield. The then only start and runway was extended in 1959 to 3,000 meters and was built in 1960 a new passenger terminal building. The second runway was built in 1972 with a length of 3,600 meters. In 1982 was the access to the A4 East Highway.
Even in the period before the opening of the Iron Curtain, the airport due to the neutrality of a link to Eastern Europe. Since EU enlargement not only increase the number of passengers but also cargo volumes growing substantially, as the airport was logistical center of many companies that from here the entire Eastern Europe operate. The airport is developing increasingly into a long-haul hub. Sun Korean Air operated since 15 September 2007 Seoul with a direct flight three times a week. Furthermore, came in 2007 with Delta Air Lines once again an American airline to Vienna to Atlanta, the largest airport in the world. In addition, since 2007, also flies to low-cost carrier SkyEurope from Vienna, and since the end of October 2007, the British budget airlines easyJet route Vienna - London to.
Close cooperation maintains Flughafen Wien AG, Luqa airport in Malta.
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In September 2005, opens up new air traffic control tower. With its 109 m high, it is its construction, the highest in Europe and the fourth highest in the world (after Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Atlanta). The new building was necessary, both to make room for the new SkyLink and on the other hand, to ensure an overview to the extended run. Operator of the tower is mainly the Austrian Austro Control.
Commissioning steps were carried out successively between May 2005 and March 2006, and now there is the Aeronautical Information Service (AIM), the flight data processing for all of Austria (FDU), the management, air traffic control technology (AES), the arrival and departure control office in Vienna (APP), the Meteorological Service (MET), the ramp control of the airport (Movement) and the aerodrome control (TEC) in this building. In all, about 200 people their jobs in the control tower.
is architecturally interesting that the pulpit twisted at the tip to the base on the ground by about 45 degrees. The space between is only covered by a membrane, both from within and from outside can be illuminated with lamps and projectors. Furthermore, the shaft is not in the middle of the base, so that the tower from any direction her has a different appearance, the sometimes "wrong" acts. The membrane facade has an area of 3,300 square meters, the tower makes it the largest membrane structure in Austria.
client were the Vienna Airport and Austro Control GmbH, the architecture comes from the office Zechner & Zechner ZT GmbH The Tower has already won several architectural awards.
Copyright: Wikipedia 2006 was built on the site of the airport, a training center for pilots of the German Lufthansa. The pilots of the Austrian, which until then their training had to be completed abroad, are able to share this center as well, so that expected for the local airline company in cost savings.
Links:
http://www.viennaairport.com/jart/prj3/via/website.jart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Vienna_International_Airport