- IATA
- VIE
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LOWW
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1954
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 32.6M
- in 2025
History & name
Vienna International Airport takes its name from Vienna and Schwechat and opened in 1954, 18 km from the city. Flughafen Wien AG operates its two runways, the longer 3,600 m, and the airport handled 32.6 million passengers in 2025.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Vienna International Airport
- Serves
- Vienna, Austria
- City centre
- 18 km from Vienna
- Opened
- 1954
- Operator
- Flughafen Wien AG
- Passengers
- 32.6 million in 2025
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,600 m
- Elevation
- 600 ft (183 m)
- Website
- viennaairport.com ↗
Where it sits
48.1°N, 16.6°E puts VIE in the northern hemisphere, 5,350 km from the equator and 4,658 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 83rd most northerly, which makes it the 579th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 48.1°S, 163.4°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 1,843 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is M. R. Štefánik (BTS), 48 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from VIE
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bangkok, at 8,451 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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