Linz welcomes ACI EUROPE/SMAG conference; traffic up nearly 4% in 2008

Linz, a designated European City of Culture this year, is known for landmarks such as the Lentos Art Museum and the Schloss Steyregg.

This year Linz, along with Vilnius in Lithuania, has been designated a European City of Culture. As part of its programme of events the city is hosting the second ACI EUROPE SMAG Conference & Exhibition from 2-4 March, which includes the ACI EUROPE / anna.aero Airport Network Planning Course. Linz Airport’s traffic grew by almost 4% last year and broke through the 800,000 mark for the first time.

Source: Linz Airport

Scheduled traffic, which accounts for around 60% of passenger numbers, grew by 8.5% to 504,976 while charter traffic was down 3.2% to 293,629.

Just 10 scheduled destinations this winter

Linz is served by just three scheduled airlines including Lufthansa, which operates two routes to its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich.

This winter Linz is served by just three scheduled airlines. Austrian operates six routes including three domestic routes to Graz, Salzburg and Vienna.

Source: OAG Max Online for w/c 16 February 2009

Linz – the European Union’s 2009 Capital of Culture – has been developing into an extraordinary prototype of the modern European city, a factor given deep meaning by this fried egg logo.

Lufthansa operates two routes to its hubs at Frankfurt and Munich, while Ryanair flies non-stop to London Stansted and Barcelona Girona. Flights to Frankfurt and Vienna operate four times each day to enable convenient connections to be made onto the networks of either Lufthansa or Austrian.

This winter the airport’s charter programme provides flights to Egypt (Hurghada, Luxor and Sharm El-Sheikh), Spain (Gran Canaria and Tenerife) and Turkey (Antalya). During the summer niki operates low-frequency scheduled services to a range of Mediterranean destinations such as Corfu, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Rhodes and Thessaloniki.