FACILITIES
The airport has undertaken several major
building projects in recent years. The most
visible – and expensive – is the new control
tower which cost €14m. Another €9m was
spent on the air traffic control equipment.
Refurbishing the road traffic tunnel under
the runway cost the airport another €9m
recently. The work was carried out at night
when traffic was lighter, minimising the
impact on the local neighbourhood.
Resurfacing work has meanwhile been
carried out on the airport’s taxiways, and
the runway is set to follow. Klaus revealed:
“It will be a project within the next six years.
We have an old runway with good, old
concrete, not asphalt. The new runway will
be built not with concrete but with asphalt.”
On the northeastern side of the site, abusiness park has been constructed which
the airport leases out to companies as an
additional revenue stream. “It’s important for
an airport to get money from other projects
because you can’t earn enough from the
aviation side alone,” says Klaus.
Other work includes a new power station
to meet the airport’s energy needs and the
refurbishment of offices in the administration
building. More offices will be created in the
space left by the old control tower.
Adding air bridges to the terminal has
also been considered, but Karres says there
are concerns they would affect the airport’s
turnaround times – a crucial factor on ‘Winter
Saturdays’. “In my opinion, the quickest way
to load and unload an aircraft is to use both
doors.”
Passengers therefore have to walk outto the aircraft, and the airport has invested
in covered air stairs to give them some
protection from bad weather. Landside,
covered walkways ensure passengers can
avoid the elements when walking from the
terminal to the car parks.
In a nod to its heritage, at the
southwestern end of the main ramp the
airport has a replica of its original terminal
on display, alongside a preserved Douglas
DC-3 Dakota, N86U (actually a C-47A), in
retro Austrian Airlines livery.OPERATORS
Last year the airport welcomed new services
to its schedule, including easyJet’s four-
times-a-week offering to Hamburg and
Scandinavian Airlines’ Saturday service to
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