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Graz Airport


Flughafen Graz

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  • IATA: GRZ

  • ICAO: LOWG

Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Holding Graz - Kommunale Dienstleistungen GmbH (99.9 %)
Operator Flughafen Graz Betriebs GmbH
Serves Graz
Location Abtissendorf, Feldkirchen and Thalerhof, Kalsdorf, Styria, Austria
Elevation AMSL
340 m / 1,115 ft
Coordinates
46°59′35″N 015°26′21″E / 46.99306°N 15.43917°E / 46.99306; 15.43917 (Graz Airport)Coordinates: 46°59′35″N 015°26′21″E / 46.99306°N 15.43917°E / 46.99306; 15.43917 (Graz Airport)
Website flughafen-graz.at
Map


GRZ is located in Austria

GRZ

GRZ



Location of airport in Austria


Runways




































Direction
Length
Surface
m
ft
17L/35R
640
2,100
Grass
17C
2,740
8,989

Asphalt
35C
3,000
9,842

Asphalt
17R/35L
760
2,493
Grass

Statistics (2018)













Aircraft movements 14,888 Increase 3.0%
Passengers 1,030,929 Increase 7.5%
Cargo (including
road feeder service,
metric tons)
9,318 Increase 4.7%
Sources: Austrian AIP at EUROCONTROL[1]

Graz Airport (IATA: GRZ, ICAO: LOWG), known as Flughafen Graz in German, is a primary international airport serving southern Austria. It is located near Graz, the second-largest city in Austria, in the municipalities of Feldkirchen and Kalsdorf, 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) south[1] of Graz city centre.




Contents






  • 1 Location


  • 2 History


    • 2.1 Early years


    • 2.2 Development in the 2000s




  • 3 Facilities


  • 4 Airlines and destinations


  • 5 Access


    • 5.1 Public transport


      • 5.1.1 Bus


      • 5.1.2 Train




    • 5.2 Car




  • 6 See also


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links





Location


Graz Airport spans the village Abtissendorf in Feldkirchen municipality and the cadastral community Thalerhof in Kalsdorf municipality. The airport terminal is located in Abtissendorf.



History



Early years


Construction of the airport began in 1913 with the construction of a grass runway and the first hangars; the airport saw its first flight in 1914. It was the site of Thalerhof internment camp, run by the governments of Franz Joseph I of Austria and Charles I of Austria. The first domestic passenger flight in Austria in 1925 serviced the route Vienna–Graz–Klagenfurt. In 1930 Yugoslav flag carrier Aeroput started regular flights linking Yugoslav capital Belgrade with Vienna with stops in Zagreb and Graz.[2][3] In 1937, construction of a terminal building began due to increase in the number of passengers.


After the end of the Second World War, Austria was forbidden to possess either a military or civilian aviation fleet. After the reopening of Austrian airspace in 1951, a new concrete runway of 1,500 metres (4,921 ft) was built in Graz. The runway was extended to 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) in 1962. The route network grew quickly and the first international scheduled flight started in 1966 with flights to Frankfurt.


In 1969, the runway was extended again, this time to 2,500 metres (8,202 ft), and construction of a new terminal building became necessary. Highlights were visits by Concorde in 1981 and by a Boeing 747 on the occasion of the airport's 70th anniversary in 1984. Ten years later, another new building was constructed with a maximum annual capacity of 750,000 passengers. The latest extension of the runway was to 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) in 1998.



Development in the 2000s


In early 21st century, the number of passengers exceeded the 750,000-mark and in 2004 was just below 900,000. This led to the final extension of the current terminal building in 2003 and the construction of a second terminal in 2005.


In summer 2015, the airport received two new routes to European hubs; Swiss International Air Lines to Zurich[4] and Turkish Airlines to Istanbul Atatürk Airport.[5]



Facilities


The passenger terminal building features shops, travel agencies, a restaurant and cafés, a bank, car rental and service counters. The apron provides stands for aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747 or An-124. There are no jet bridges, mobile stairways are used for boarding.



Airlines and destinations




Check-in area




Rooftop viewing area




Control tower


The following airlines offer regular scheduled, seasonal, and charter flights at Graz Airport:[6]



































































Airlines Destinations

Air Dolomiti
Munich

Astra Airlines
Seasonal charter: Paros

Austrian Airlines
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna
Seasonal charter: Chania,[7]Corfu,[7]Heraklion,[7]Kos,[7]Naples,[7]Rhodes,[7]Santorini,[7]Skiathos,[7]Thessaloniki[7]

Bulgarian Air Charter
Seasonal charter: Burgas

Corendon Airlines
Seasonal charter: Antalya

Corendon Airlines Europe
Seasonal: Heraklion (begins 10 May 2019)[8], Rhodes (begins 10 May 2019)[8]

Croatia Airlines
Seasonal charter: Brač

easyJet
Berlin-Tegel[9]

Eurowings
Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca

KLM
Amsterdam

Lufthansa
Munich

Swiss International Air Lines
Zürich

Tailwind Airlines
Seasonal charter: Antalya

Tunisair
Seasonal charter: Monastir

Turkish Airlines
Istanbul


Access



Public transport



Bus


A bus stop can be found next to the arrival area.[10] Regional bus lines 630 and 631 operate service to Graz, the transfer to central Graz takes 16 to 28 minutes.



Train


The airport is within walking distance (approximately 420 metres, seven minutes on foot) of the Graz airport railway station. Line S5 (Graz to Spielfeld-Straß) connects the airport to Graz. The journey from the Graz airport railway station to the Graz central station takes eleven minutes.



Car


Graz Airport is accessible via motorways A9 (exit Kalsdorf) and A2 (exit Flughafen Graz/Feldkirchen).



See also



  • Transport in Austria

  • List of airports in Austria



References





  1. ^ ab EAD Basic


  2. ^ Drustvo za Vazdusni Saobracaj A D – Aeroput at europeanairlines.no


  3. ^ "World Airlines Directory". Flight International. 10 August 1944. p. 150..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ Airline route Archived 11 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine


  5. ^ "Turkish Airlines Launches a New Route to Graz". Turkish Airlines (Press release). Retrieved 18 March 2015.


  6. ^ "Destinationen". Flughafen Graz. Retrieved 26 December 2018.


  7. ^ abcdefghi "Timetable". myholiday.austrian.com.


  8. ^ ab Liu, Jim. "Corendon Airlines Europe S19 new routes/sectors". Routesonline. Retrieved 17 April 2019.


  9. ^ EasyJet fliegt von Graz nach Berlin


  10. ^ "Public transport". Flughafen Graz. Retrieved 24 September 2015.




External links


Media related to Graz Airport at Wikimedia Commons



  • Official website


  • Styrian Public Transport Association, Route planner for public transport on the ground


  • Current weather for LOWG at NOAA/NWS


  • Accident history for GRZ at Aviation Safety Network









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