Linz Airport

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The airport Hörsching (also Blue Danube Airport, ICAO code: LOWL ) was officially opened in 1955, but it already existed since 1939 Hörsching.

History

First site for air transport was the site at South Station Market in the center of Linz, where on 30 October 1909, the airship Estaric I ascended. 1925, the air traffic between Linz and Vienna was taken. Starting in 1934, the air traffic in Linz- Katzenau district was settled ( today's industrial line ), but disbanded after 1938 by the establishment of Chemie Linz by the NSDAP. It was the relocation to the current airport in Horsching.

Since 1956, regular passenger air transport takes place. From 1972, a private passenger terminal was built on the north side of the site, which went into operation in 1976. Since 1985, the slope of the Linz airport is equipped with an instrument landing system category III B. From 1998 to 2003 the adaptation and expansion of the existing passenger terminal. 2005, a new instrument landing system (ILS ) was taken on the takeoff and landing runway 09 in operation.

Since 1966, there are daily flights to Frankfurt am Main, next to the current flight plan includes connections to Dusseldorf, London ( Ryanair ), and Vienna, and from June 2014 to Zurich by Etihad Regional. There is also a charter program of flights to the holiday regions. Since May 2006, the Blue Danube Airport third base NIKI, with six weekly flights to Palma de Mallorca and many other holiday flights.

By 1989 several times was the supersonic Concorde are welcomed, along with find in the summer months in high demand occasional charter flights with Boeing 747 instead lately. Since the mid- 90s and some cargo flights with the oversize transport Antonov An-124 Ruslan were handled in 2003 was the first landing of the largest cargo aircraft in the world in Austria, the Antonov An - 225th Took place on 2 June 2010 as part of regular training, the landing of the Airbus A380 - 800 ' Frankfurt am Main', the world's largest civilian airliner, Lufthansa. The A380 landed at 15:34 clock coming from Vienna, Linz airport, at 16:30 clock the plane took off again to Munich. With Amerer Air is the only air cargo companies in Austria was stationed at Linz Airport. Since 1978, Linz is behind Vienna 's Schwechat the largest cargo airport in Austria, with the vast freight will transshipped by truck. In terms of passenger traffic, the airport is Hörsching to Vienna, Salzburg, Graz and Innsbruck, the fifth largest in Austria.

Organization

The Linz GesmbH Airport - Blue Danube Airport Linz is 50 % the province of Upper Austria ( part of the Upper transport Holding Gmbh ), and 50 % of the city of Linz. Cites " all administrative and necessary for air traffic processing activities, such as aircraft maintenance, fuel sales, guest relations etc. " by.

Airlines and destinations

The following scheduled flights start from Linz Winter Timetable 2013/2014:

Equipment

The airport has a 3,000 m long precision airstrip with two instrument landing systems (one for bad visual approaches to CAT IIIb), and in addition a helicopter runway. For medium-haul aircraft are 16 parking positions available.

The airport Hörsching is actually an airport in the Austrian Air Force and thus belongs to the Austrian army. However, there is a civil right of use. The civil part is north of the airstrip, south of it is Austria's second largest barracks, the airbase Vogler with parts of the plane and the military command of Upper Austria.

On 1 November 2010 the identifier was the start and runway 09/27 to 08 /26 as amended, and the helicopter runway of 08 /26 to 07 / 25th This change resulted from the fact that the deviation between the geographic and magnetic north direction constantly changes. Since the allowance for variation of the compass rose gives such an ill -looking value at the 08 /26 is closer than to the existing identifier 09/27, was led by the Austrian air traffic control Austro Control the tracking of new Runway under way.

Incidents

The database of the Aviation Safety Network serious aviation accidents are recorded worldwide since 1943. With as of May to 2013, no aviation accidents at or near the airport Linz are noted.

Importance

Economic factor

Linz Airport is the second largest freight airport in Austria. According to passengers, he is ranked fifth

Traffic figures

Numbers according to Austrian Transport statistics: