Aviation News - May 2016

Turkish Airlines increased the frequency

of its  ights from Istanbul Atatürk Airport to

ten times a week and airberlin added an

additional daily rotation to its Düsseldorf

connection. This past winter, British Airways

 ew to Salzburg from both Gatwick and

Heathrow; the former is year-round while

the LHR service was for the season only,

although the airport is hopeful of extending

it. BA also  ies to Salzburg from Edinburgh

and Glasgow, with Jet2, Monarch Airlines,

Thomson Airways, easyJet and Ryanair also

linking the city to the UK.

Turkish Airlines, one of SZG’s most

important carriers, is expected to increase its

frequency to two  ights a day by the end of

this year. The Istanbul link enables travellers

to access the carrier’s impressive network of

200-plus destinations worldwide. More than

80% of passengers departing from Salzburg

with Turkish Airlines connect to other  ights

via Istanbul, mostly medium and long-haul

services.

Key to Salzburg’s strategy is its links with

Europe’s major hub airports. Star Alliance’s

hubs at Frankfurt, Istanbul and Vienna are

all served from here, while British Airways

links the airport into oneworld’s London hub.

During the winter season Transavia’s  ights

to Amsterdam mean travellers can take

advantage of SkyTeam’s network from the

Dutch city.

“In earlier days an airport had to have

a hundred destinations – that was a good

airport,” says Klaus. “Nowadays you don’t

need to have a hundred destinations: you

need to have hubs. The most important

thing for our airport is the strength of our

hub destinations – an important part of our

strategy.”

At 5,741ft (1,750m) with a 984ft (300m)

overrun, Salzburg’s runway is too short to

accommodate long-haul services itself. It’s

also restricted by only having an ILS on

Runway 15 because of the mountains at the

33 end.

Despite this, Karres revealed that about

40 to 45% of aircraft land on Runway 33,

adding: “It’s a visual approach which most

pilots love to  y because it’s out of their

normal domain.”

Salzburg does have a required navigation

performance (RNP) approach at the Runway

33 end, but Klaus says only a handful of

the airport’s operators have the equipment

installed on their aircraft to be able to use it.

Salzburg has always been well known

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Flight Charter Linz Diamond DA42 OE-FCL taxies out after a brief visit. General aviation accounts for a signi cant proportion of Salzburg’s movements.

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