Salzburg Airport , branded as ''Salzburg Airport W. A. Mozart'', is

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's second largest airport. It serves

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the ...

, the fourth-largest Austrian city, and is a gateway to Austria's numerous ski areas. The airport is located west-south-west of Salzburg city centre and from the Austrian-German border. It is jointly owned by Salzburg municipality (25%) and

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(75%). The airport is named after the Austrian composer

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History

Pre-World War II

In 1910, the first powered aircraft taxied on to the new race track in Salzburg-Aigen. In 1926,

Deutsche Luft Hansa ''Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G.'' (from 1933 styled as ''Deutsche Lufthansa'' and also known as ''Luft Hansa'', ''Lufthansa'', or DLH) was a German airline, serving as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and th ...

inaugurated the

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-Salzburg-

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route. In 1927, the

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-Salzburg-

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route was started by ÖLAG (Austrian Aviation AG). In one of the earlier incidents Luft Hansa, which flew the London-

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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-Munich-Vienna route with

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, made a forced landing in Salzburg. 1939 saw the introduction of the

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-Salzburg-

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and Munich-Salzburg-

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routes, which were planned for the summer schedule.

The war years

At the start of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, on 1 September 1939, Salzburg Airport was seized and in 1943 the "Luftgaukommando VII" in Munich was put in charge of it. In the autumn of 1944 the newly developed fighter jet

Messerschmitt Me 262 The Messerschmitt Me 262, nicknamed ''Schwalbe'' (German: "Swallow") in fighter versions, or ''Sturmvogel'' (German: "Storm Bird") in fighter-bomber versions, is a fighter aircraft and fighter-bomber that was designed and produced by the Germa ...

appeared. When the

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal ...

first bombed the city of Salzburg on 16 October 1944, with a subsequent 15 air attacks on the city, the airport remained undamaged. Salzburg Airport was the first Austrian airport to become a part of European scheduled traffic again.

Post war

On 1 August 1958, a

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was put into operation after a 15-month construction period and a new

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was opened in 1966. The airport reached the target of 1,265,000 passengers in 2000, and

British Airways British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a populati ...

announced flights to Salzburg from London. These flights were cancelled a year later. Also in 2001,

low-cost carrier A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (occasionally referred to as '' no-frills'', ''budget'' or '' discount carrier'' or ''airline'', and abbreviated as ''LCC'') is an airline that is operated with an especially high emphasis on minimizing op ...

Ryanair Ryanair is an Irish ultra low-cost carrier founded in 1984. It is headquartered in Swords, Dublin, Ireland and has its primary operational bases at Dublin and London Stansted airports. It forms the largest part of the Ryanair Holdings family ...

landed at Salzburg, its first Austrian destination. This was also the first time an Austrian airport hosted a low-cost carrier.

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commenced flights to Salzburg from

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for their winter schedule in 2005. In 2006, Ryanair started services to

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, which ended in 2007, and Dublin. In spring 2014 the airport's home carrier

Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG, often shortened to Austrian, is the flag carrier of Austria and a subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. The airline is headquartered on the grounds of Vienna International Airport in Schwechat where it also maintains its hub ...

announced the closure of their ticketing and service counters at Salzburg Airport due to decreasing demand. Additional services are instead provided directly at the check-in counters. In August 2016, German low-cost airline

Eurowings Eurowings GmbH is a German low-cost carrier headquartered in Düsseldorf and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group. Founded in 1996, it serves a network of domestic and European destinations and formerly also operated some long-haul ...

announced it would open its second Austrian base in Salzburg, with flights to six European metropolitan destinations from January 2017.aero.de - "Eurowings Europe starts in Salzburg"
(German) 18 August 2016 In May 2020, amidst the

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Wizz Air Wizz Air, legally incorporated as Wizz Air Hungary Ltd. ( hu, Wizz Air Hungary Légiközlekedési Zrt.) is a Hungarian ultra-low-cost carrier with its head office in Budapest, Hungary. The airline serves many cities across Europe, as well as s ...

announced six new routesbeginning in July 2020creating new connections to the region. In the same time,

announced the termination of their route from Salzburg to their hub at

Vienna International Airport Vienna International Airport (german: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat; ) is the international airport of Vienna, the capital of Austria, located in Schwechat, southeast of central Vienna and west of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the co ...

after 60 years,austrianaviation.net
(German) 9. June 2020 partially due to the heavily expanded

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high-speed train connections between the cities.

Terminals

Salzburg Airport consists of two passenger terminals: Terminal 1 is the main building, featuring 26 check-in desks, several service counters, some shops and restaurants and a visitors terrace. The airside area consists of 10 boarding gates that can be used for Schengen and non-Schengen destinations. As there are no jet bridges, walk- and bus-boarding is used. There is a business lounge operated by Salzburg Airport Terminal 2 is the much smaller one and features nine additional check-in counters and four boarding gates, as well as a designated area to check in skiing equipment. It has limited passenger facilities due to its use for seasonal peak-time traffic.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer regular scheduled and charter flights at Salzburg Airport:salzburg-airport.com - Seasonal schedule
retrieved 5 July 2020

Statistics

Ground transport

The airport is located 3 km from the city centre. Salzburg trolleybus lines 2 and 10, each with service every 10 minutes, connect the airport to the rest of Salzburg's public transport system. The main station is reachable in about 25 minutes and the inner city in about 30 minutes.

References

External links

Official website
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Buildings and structures in Salzburg International airports in Austria

History

Pre-World War II

The war years

Post war

Terminals

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Ground transport

See also

References

External links