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Wien-Schwechat Airport

international airport serving Vienna, Austria
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Summary

Wien-Schwechat Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,984 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Schwechat[3]
  • Country: Austria[4]
  • Connecting line: Pressburger Bahn[5]
  • Operator: Flughafen Wien AG[6]
  • Named after: Vienna[7], Schwechat[8]
  • IATA airport code: VIE[9]
  • ICAO airport code: LOWW[10]
  • Commons category: Vienna International Airport[11]
  • Scheduled service destination: Tokyo International Airport[12], İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[13]
  • Has part(s): Vienna Airport station[14]
  • Runway: 11/29[15], 16/34[16]
  • Coordinate location: 48.110277777777775, 16.56972222222222[17]
  • Interchange station: Vienna Airport station[18]
  • Official website: http://www.viennaairport.com[19], http://www.viennaairport.com/en[20]
  • Place served by transport hub: Vienna[21]
  • Connecting service: Railjet[22], InterCity (Austria)[23], City Airport Train[24]
  • Phone number: +43-1-70070[25]
  • Date of official opening: 1954[26]
  • Short name: Vienne-Schwechat[27], Wien-Schwechat[28], Vienna Schwechat[29], Βιέννης Schwechat[30], Viena-Schwechat[31], Vienna-Schwechat[32]
  • Elevation above sea level: 600[33]
  • Aerodrome reference point: 48.110277777777775, 16.56972222222222[34]
  • Patronage: 53,786[35], 128,843[36], 477,188[37], 1,002,470[38], 1,603,477[39], 2,348,157[40], 3,105,020[41], 5,928,734[42], 9,321,684[43], 12,058,224[44], 12,784,505[45], 14,785,529[46], 15,859,050[47], 16,855,725[48]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Wien-Schwechat Airport include Vienna Airport station[49], an underground railway station[50], in Austria[51].

Why It Matters

Wien-Schwechat Airport has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] It is known by 90 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

Entities named for it include Vienna Airport station[49], an underground railway station[50], in Austria[51].

Related Entities

Austria

References

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 23w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Patronage → {'amount': '+53786'}, {'amount': '+128843'}, {'amount': '+477188'} +41
    Has parts → —
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Airport", "LOWW"]
    Scheduled service destination → Tokyo International Airport, İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Airport", "LOWW"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257634|batch #257634]]"
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