Airport
"Vienna International Airport" is the official name of the
Vienna Airport in the Lower Austrian town of Schwechat, 18 kilometers
away from Vienna.
The airport was built for military purposes in
1938. After the second world war the airport was taken over by the
British in 1945.
There was just one runway until the year 1972. It is the biggest airport in Austria.
The
new City Airport Train (CAT) offers a nonstop connection from the
centre of Vienna to the airport. One ride takes 16 minutes. The trains
are going every 30 minutes.
The bus service of the Vienna Airport
has several bus lines, which also go every 30 minutes from spots in
Vienna like Schwedenplatz, Südbahnhof Railway Station or Westbahnhof
Railway Station). The ride with the bus takes between 20 and 35
minutes.
There are also bus connections from the airport to the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the airport of Bratislava.
The The International Vienna Airport from a distance.

The gate to the arrivals.

The gate to the destinations.

The way to the restaurant "Airest" and the Irish Pub "Dubliner".

The airport during the construction works in July 2004.

One of the many car park towers around the airport.

CAT - City Airport Train: from the heart of Vienna to the airport in several minutes. CAT makes it possible.
Following airlines fly to Vienna International Airport:
Adria Airways (Frankfurt, Ljubljana)
Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
Aer Lingus (Dublin)
AirBaltic (Riga)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion, Kos, Málaga, Munster/Osnabruck, Nuremberg)
Air Dolomiti (Verona)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Air Malta (Malta)
Air Moldova (Chisinau)
Air Via (Bourgas)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
Austrian
Airlines (Amman, Amsterdam, Antalya, Athens, Baku, Bangkok, Beijing,
Beirut, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo,
Calvi, Cancún [seasonal], Colombo, Copenhagen, Corfu, Damascus, Delhi,
Dnepropetrovsk, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura,
Funchal, Genoa, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Kathmandu, Kiev, Kuala
Lumpur [until March 2007], Lamezia, Larnaca [seasonal], Las Palmas,
Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Luxor, Mahon, Málaga, Male, Mauritius
[seasonal], Melbourne [until March 2007], Milan-Malpensa, Montego Bay,
Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, New York-JFK, Oslo, Paris-Charles
de Gaulle, Phuket [seasonal], Poznan, Priština, Puerto Plata, Punta
Cana, Rhodes, Sarajevo, Shanghai-Pudong, Sharm El Sheik, Singapore
[until March 2007], Skopje, Sofia, Split, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sydney
[until March 2007], Tbilisi, Tehran-Mehrabad, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South,
Tokyo-Narita, Toronto, Tuzla, Varadero, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan,
Zürich)
Austrian Arrows operated by Tyrolean Airways (Altenrhein,
Amsterdam, Ankara [seasonal], Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belgrade,
Berlin-Tegel, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Chisinau,
Cluj, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Dnepropetrovsk, Dresden, Düsseldorf,
Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gothenburg, Graz, Hamburg, Hanover,
Helsinki, Innsbruck, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kharkov, Kiev, Klagenfurt,
Kosice, Krakow, Krasnodar, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, London-Heathrow,
Luxembourg, Lviv, Lyon, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Minsk, Munich,
Newcastle [seasonal], Nice, Nuremberg, Podgorica, Prague, Priština
[seasonal], Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Skopje,
Sofia, Split, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Stuttgart,
Thessaloniki [seasonal], Timisoara, Tirana, Tripoli, Turin, Varna,
Venice, Vilnius, Warsaw, Zagreb, Zürich)
Austrian Airtransport
Belavia (Minsk)
Blu-express (Rome-Fiumicino)
British Airways (London-Heathrow)
BA Connect (Manchester)
Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
Bulgarian Air Charter (Bourgas)
China Airlines (Abu Dhabi, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek)
Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb)
Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Emirates (Dubai)
EgyptAir (Cairo)
El Al (Tel Aviv)
European Air Transport (Brussels)
EVA Air (Bangkok, Taipei-Chiang Kai Shek)
Finnair (Helsinki)
Free Bird Airlines (Antalya)
Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
Iberia (Barcelona, Madrid)
InterSky (Friedrichshafen)
Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
Jat Airways (Belgrade)
Job Air (Ostrava)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
Korean Air Cargo
LOT Polish Airlines (Krakow, Warsaw)
LTU (Antalya, Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh)
LTU Austria (Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Salzberg, Samos)
Lufthansa (Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart)
Luxair (Luxembourg)
MAT Macedonian Airlines (Ohrid, Skopje)
Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
MNG Airlines (Antalya)
Niki
(Antalya, Faro, Frankfurt [starts October 30, 2006], Ibiza,
London-Stansted, Málaga, Nuremberg, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de
Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Zürich)
Olympic Airlines (Athens)
Onur Air (Istanbul)
Pegasus Airlines (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
SkyEurope (Charter Holiday Destinations)
SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
Spanair (Madrid)
SunExpress (Antalya)
Syrianair (Aleppo, Berlin-Tegel)
Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni, Cluj, Sibiu)
TNT Airways (Liege)
Tunisair (Monastir, Tunis)
Turkish Airlines (Ankara, Istanbul-Atatürk, Izmir, Samsun-Carsamba)
Ukraine International (Kiev)
Viaggio Air (Sofia)