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Air Berlin weekly to Dusseldorf
(19th November 2007)

German low cost carrier Air Berlin launches a weekly flight between Salzburg and Dusseldorf each saturday on 22nd December. Fokker 100 aircrafts will be employed on this route. The flight can already be booked at www.airberlin.com. Fares start at 29€ oneway incl. all fees and taxes.

Air Union (Kras Air): New scheduled flight to Moscow
(24th October 2007)

After the news was already announced on the website of Moscow's Domodedovo airport several weeks ago that a scheduled flight should be established between Moscow DME and Salzburg, the flight is now shown in the booking system Amadeus. Once per week on saturdays Kras Air, member of the Russian airline alliance Air Union, will offer a flight between the Russian capital and Mozart's city. The flight will be operated with B757-200 aircraft.  

Sky Europe again to Salzburg?
(02nd October 2007)

During yesterday's launch of its new service between Vienna and Innsbruck, Karim Makhlouf CEO of Sky Europe announced its intention to start flights from Salzburg to Klagenfurt to Vienna. Beside point-to-point traffic on the services to the Austrian capital, Sky Europe also established hub operations via Vienna. Out of Innsbruck are beside the services to Vienna connections to 18 further European destinations available.
 

New Ryanair service to Gothenburg
(21st September 2007)

Irish low cost carrier Ryanair will start a new service to the Swedish industrial town Gothenburg from Salzburg. Once a week between 22nd December and 29th March the service will operate each saturday. The flights can be booked through www.ryanair.com. This winter season, Ryanair offers seven nonstop - destinations out of Salzburg, but beside London STN and Dublin, all other destinations are just served once or twice weekly.

Seasonal scheduled flights in winter 2007 / 2008
(25th July 2007)

During the next winter timetable period there will be again a big amount of seasonal scheduled flights and extra rotations to Salzburg

Aer Lingus: 2x  weekly to Dublin (2006/07: 3x weekly)
Finnair: 1x weekly to Helsinki
FlyBE: Each 1x weekly to Exeter & Southampton
GB Airways: 1x weekly to Manchester (2006/07: 3x weekly)
Icelandair: 1x weekly to Keflavik
Eacht 2: 4x weekly to Leeds - Bradford
Norwegian: 2x weekly to Oslo, 1x weekly to Bergen; NEW: 1x weekly to Warschau
Ryanair: 3x daily to London STN, 3x weekly to Dublin, 1x weekly to Liverpool (2006/07 3x weekly), Nottingham East Midlands (2006/07 4x weekly); NEW: 2x weekly to Bristol und Stockholm NYO
Sterling: 1-3x weekly to Kopenhagen (2006/07: 2x weekly), NEW: 1x weekly to Oslo & Stockholm
Thomsonfly: 5x weekly to Coventry & London LGW, 4x weekly to Manchester (2006/07 5x wö), 3x weekly to Bournemouth, 1x weekly to Doncaster Sheffield
Transavia: NEW: 4x weekly to Rotterdam

Not offered anymore will be FlyBE: Birmingham, SkyEurope: Manchester & Barcelona, TUIfly: Leipzig

For the exact schedules please reffer to our winter timetable preview: click here!

All flights can be booked through the respective websites of the mentioned airlines.
 

TUIfly stops Leipzig flights
(25th June 2007)

TUIfly will stop its 3times weekly served route between Leipzig and Salzburg on 22nd July 2007. Low yields are reported to have lead to this decision. No changes are planned for the TUIfly services to Berlin TXL, Dusseldorf, Hanover, Hamburg and Cologne.
 

Ryanair: New service to Stockholm - Skavsta starting December 2007
(14th June 2007)

Irish low cost carrier Ryanair reacts to the expansion of Sterling out of Salzburg and establishes its own Stockholm - service starting in december 2007. The new route will be launched on 19th december 2007 and will be operated twice weekly on wednesdays and saturdays. The last flight is bookable for 29th march 2008. All flights can be booked at www.ryanair.com .

Norwegian: Warsaw - Salzburg  in Winter 2007/08
(06th June 2007)

Norwegian low cost carrier Norwegian will connect Salzburg with Warsaw during winter 2007/2008. Norwegian will operate from its Polish hub each saturday morning to Mozart's city with Boeing B737-300. Flights will be operated between 29th December 2007 and 29th March 2008. These can already be booked at www.norwegian.no

Norwegian offers also services to Bergen (once weekly) and Oslo (twice weekly) in winter 2007/08
 

Bristol connection in Winter 2007/08
(24th May 2007)

The Irish low cost pioneer Ryanair will launch a new service between Salzburg and its new hub at Bristol in winter 2007/2008. Each Wednesday and Saturday there will be a flight starting December 2007. The flights can be booked at www.ryanair.com .
 

New Airport - CEO
(23rd May 2007)

According to information released by newspaper "Salzburger Nachrichten", authorized representative Ing. Roland Hermann will folow Dipl.-Ing. Günther Auer as Airport CEO. Up to now Ing. R. Hermann is in charge for traffic and marketing at Salzburg Airport. 

Transavia: 4times weekly Salzburg - Rotterdam in winter 2007/2008 
(16th May 2007)

A further long serving charter partner of Salzburg Airport starts low cost services to Salzburg: The Dutch airline Transavia will fly 4times weekly between its hub at Rotterdam to Mozart's city during winter 2007/2008. The flights can already be booked in the web ( www.transavia.com ) with fares starting at 56€ incl. all taxes and fees.  

If the weekly Amsterdam - Salzburg flights will be reinstated, is not yet published.

Massive Sterling expansion in winter 2007/2008
(08th May 2007)

Danish Low Cost Carrier Sterling operates seasonal scheduled services from Copenhagen to Salzburg since two years. Starting winter 2007/2008 the airline will now expand its presence at Salzburg, according to its website: Beside the expansion of the Copenhagen services (up to 3weekly flights), Oslo and Stockholm will join the network. All flights can already be booked at www.sterling.dk. Prices start at 60€ oneway incl. taxes and fees. 

While Stockholm will be a totaly new scheduled destination from Salzburg, the Oslo service is operated in beside Norwegian, which already announced their restart of the Salzburg - Bergen and Salzburg - Oslo flights.

British Airways:  Daily Salzburg - London LGW 
(05th May 2007)

During the winter timetable period 2007/2008 British Airways will operate the Salzburg - London LGW route daily instead of 5times weekly. During lunchtime a Boeing B737-300 will rest at Salzburg's Mozart airport. Compared to the previous winter season flights will now also operate on tuesdays and thursdays.

Cirrus to fly Salzburg - Zurich 3 times daily
(14th March 2007 - update 03rd April 2007)

Cirrus Airlines and SWISS revive the route between Salzburg and Zurich with 3 daily flights. Starting 04th june 2007 a Dornier 328 of German regional airline Cirrus Airlines will operate on the service. Mondays to fridays the route will be operated 3times daily on sundays once per day. The flight timings are coordinated with the hub waves of SWISS in Zurich.

Part of the treaty is that the route will be served for at least two years. At the beginning a Dornier Do 328 with 32 seats will be based. Therefore an Austrian sister company will be launched, which will employ about 15 crew members and technicans in the area. Should the route be a success, bigger aircraft and additional destinations are considered.

Significant more passengers in 2006
(17th January 2007)

2006 was again a record year at Salzburg Airport. Alltogether 1.878 266 passengers were handeled in 2006. This represents an icrease on 10,8%. Sheduled passengers increased by 19,9%. Charterpassengers decreased by 0,4%, but incoming charter increased by 5,6%. 

Movements decreased by 12,4% in comparison to 2005 to 21,511. This means that more passengers were handeled on less flights.

The cargo results show a same nearly the same results as 2005 at 7304tons (-1%).

Despite the good results there were also some negative events. At the end of 2005 / beginning 2006 the airport lost 3 important connections to the hub airports Amsterdam, Paris CDG and Zurich. SkyEurope will pull out of its Manchester, Barcelona and Paris ORY flights at the end of the winter schedule as Ryanair will give up its flights to Charleroi.

In comparison to the previous season in summer 2007 Thomsonfly will fly to Manchester, HLX to Leipzig-Halle and Dusseldorf, as British Airways to London LGW.
 

SkyEurope pulls out of Salzburg
(19 December 2006)

Slovakian low cost carrier will stop all its low cots connections from Salzburg to Barcelona, Paris ORY and Manchester from April 2007. The flights couldn't be operated on a profitable basis the whole year. Thomsonfly will maintain its Manchester flights over the summer.  
 

First landing of an Embraer RJ 195 in Austria
(17 December 2006)

On 16th December 2006, an Embraer RJ 195 touched down at an Austrian Airport for the first time. Read more about that in our feature: First landing of an Embraer RJ 195 in Austria

HLX becomes TUIfly.com
(15 December 2006)

From April 2007 onwards, both German TUI airlines Hapagfly and HLX will be merged to TUIfly.com. Salzburg as a successful HLX destination will also be TUIfly.com destination. During Summer 2007 TUIfly.com will serve the following German cities from Salzburg: Berlin TXL (daily except tuesdays), Dusseldorf (4times weekly), Hamburg (4times weekly), Hannover (3times weekly), Leipzig (3times weekly) and Cologne (daily)

Leipzig will be served by the new member of the fleet Boeing B737-300.
 

Ryanair cancells Brussels Charleroi service from 16th April
(13 Dezember 2006)

Today Ryanair surprised with its annoucement to pull out of the Salzburg - Brussels Charleroi route. From 16th April 2006 Ryanair won't offer the service anymore. Ryanair operates 4 weekly flights between Salzburg and Charleroi. If another airline will take over the flights hasn't been announced yet. 

Remarks for aviation enthusiasts
(06 Dezember 2006)

The Salzburg Airport Authority and Planes International jointly released remarks for aviation enthusiasts. This remarks should help to ensure a complicated free and successful stay at Salzburg Airport.

You can find the remarks here: Remarks for aviation enthusiasts

Aeroflot looks at Salzburg as possible new destination.
(22 November 2006)

Salzburg is a possible new Aeroflot destination. This was announced by Aeroflot CEO Okulov at a press conference held in Vienna: " Flights to Austria are very popular with Russians. Salzburg is a strong seasonal destiantion, but I see potential for a year round service." Further was said that due to the expansion of the fleet the additional capacity for these flights would be available. 
 
According to the Russian tour operator Sunrise, Aeroflot will operate a charter flights to Salzburg this winter. Each saturday an A321 will fly between Moscow SVO and Mozart's city. 

Winter timetable 2006/2007 & "Hot days"
(29th October 2006)

Today, 29th October 2006, the new winter timetable 2006/2007 starts. During this season a range of new scheduled service will be launched. Following new year-round services will be launched: British Airways to london Gatwick, HLX to Leipzig and Thomsonfly to Manchester. Also a wide range of seasonal services will be inaugurated: Jet2 to Leeds Bradford, GB Airways to Manchester, flyBE to Exeter, Thomsonfly to Doncaster, Ryanair to East Midlands and Liverpool and Icelandair to Rekyavik. The actual timetable is available at "Timetable".

For aviation enthusaist following days will be interesting:

02nd/03rd January 2007: Arrival day for russian christmas charters
12th/13th January 2007: Departure day for russian christmas charters
10th/17th/24th February 2007: Half term breaks (many additional flights from England)  

HLX summer timetable 2007: New destination Dusseldorf
(26th September 2006)

In summer 200, HLX will launch its sixth destination in Germany out of Salzburg. Starting 25th march on mondays, wednesdays, fridays and sundays a flight will be operated between Mozart's city and Dusseldorf. 

HLX will offer the following schedules to Salzburg in Summer 2006: 
Berlin TXL: Daily except tuesday
Hamburg: Monday, wednesday, friday and sunday
Hannover: Tuesday, thursday and saturday
Köln: Daily
Leipzig: Tuesday, friday and sunday 

Breitling Super Constellation comes to Salzburg
(30th August 2006)

On saturday, 02nd september 2006, Salzburg will welcome a special guest. The Breitling Super Constellation of SCFA should come. At the time of writing this, scheduled time of departure was 18:00. The duration of the flight will be around 1 hour, so Salzburg can expect the arrival for around 19:00. Departure should be on the sunday in the evening around 18:00.  

planes-international.com wants to remark, that the timetables of these flights can change in very short time. Despite our effort to ensure the most updated information we do not take over any responsibility for the correctness of this published timetable. We recommend to be at the airports early. 

Further new Ryanair connection: 3times weekly to Liverpool
(30th August 2006)

A day after the announcement of East Midlands as Ryanair's 4th Salzburg destination, today the Irish low cost carrier loaded a new flight into its booking system. Starting 19th december 2006, Ryanair will launch a new Liverpool - Salzburg service. This flight will be served 3times weekly on tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. The flights can be booked through Ryanair's website at www.ryanair.com 

New connection into the heart of England: Ryanair to East Midlands
(29th August 2006)

After the announcement that several British airlines will enhance or start their Salzburg activities, now the Irish low cost carrier Ryanair will introduce a further service to Salzburg. Starting 18th december 2006 a new service from Nottingham East Midlands will be launched. The flight will be served 4times weekly with Boeing B737-800 aircrafts seating 189 passengers. The flights can already be booked at Ryanairs website ( www.ryanair.com )  

GB Airways (British Airways) will launch Salzburg - Manchester service
(09th August 2006)

Beside SkyEurope and Thomsonfly also GB Airways will launch a scheduled services from Manchester to Salzburg in ccoperation with British Airways. The flight will be operate in average 4 times weekly mostly with Airbus A321 aircraft, which can acomodate 189 passengers. The flights can already be booked at www.ba.com at prices starting at 91,10pounds (135€) incl. all taxes and fees for a return flight. At the end of the season smaller Airbus A320 aircrafts will be utilised.     
   

From	To	Flight No	Days of ops	Departure	Arrival	Aircraft	Validation
Manchester	Salzburg	GT 6836	-2-4-67	07:10	10:25	A321	16DEC06 - 25MAR07
Manchester	Salzburg	GT 6836	--3----	07:10	10:25	A321	03FEB07 - 14FEB07
Salzburg	Manchester	GT 6837	-2-4-67	11:20	12:35	A321	16DEC06 - 25MAR07
Salzburg	Manchester	GT 6837	--3----	11:20	12:35	A321	03FEB07 - 14FEB07

HLX strengthens its position at Salzburg Airport: New Leipzig - Salzburg service
(03rd July 2006) 

The German low cost carrier HLX will strengthen its already strong presence at Salzburg Airport with the addition of a 5th German destination. From the middle of december the Saxonian exhibition centre Leipzig will be served with 3 weekly Fokker 100 flights. This was announced in an press statement released by HLX and is now published in its timetables. This will be Salzburg's first low cost connection to Germany's eastern part. 
 

From	To	Flight No	Days of ops	Departure	Arrival	Aircraft	Validity
Leipzig	Salzburg	HLX 2210	--3----	09:25	10:30	F100	15DEC06 - 23MAR07
Leipzig	Salzburg	HLX 2210	----5--	09:25	10:30	F100	15DEC06 - 10JAN07
Leipzig	Salzburg	HLX 2210	----5--	09:25	10:30	F100	09FEB07 - 23MAR07
Leipzig	Salzburg	HLX 2210	----5--	13:15	14:20	F100	12JAN07 - 07FEB07
Leipzig	Salzburg	HLX 2210	------7	13:15	14:20	F100	15DEC06 - 23MAR07
Salzburg	Leipzig	HLX 2211	--3----	11:00	12:10	F100	15DEC06 - 23MAR07
Salzburg	Leipzig	HLX 2211	----5--	11:00	12:10	F100	15DEC06 - 10JAN07
Salzburg	Leipzig	HLX 2211	----5--	11:00	12:10	F100	09FEB07 - 23MAR07
Salzburg	Leipzig	HLX 2211	----5--	14:50	16:00	F100	12JAN07 - 07FEB07
Salzburg	Leipzig	HLX 2211	------7	14:50	16:00	F100	15DEC06 - 23MAR07

A further news for the winter timetable will be the employment of B737-800 aircrafts on HLX's services to Cologne and Hamburg (again daily) 

Welcome to Salzburg: Jet2 launches flights to Leeds Bradford
(01st July 2006)

Starting 11th December 2006, a further English low cost carrier will begin flights to Salzburg: Jet2 will serve Mozart's city 3times weekly from its hub at Leeds Bradford. All flights will be operated with Boeing B737-300 equipment. Passengers who wish to fly on this service can already book the flights at www.jet2.com . 

SkyEurope opens Salzburg - Paris Orly route
(29th June 2006)

The Slovakian low cost carrier SkyEurope will open a new route from Salzburg to Paris Orly.. From 15th september 2006 on, Sky Europe will operate the new service three times weekly on wednesdays, fridays and sundays with its Boeing B737s.  The flight can be already booked through the airline`s website at www.skyeurope.com. 

New flyBE - service to Exeter
(22. June 2006)

On 16th december 2006 the well known English low cost carrier flyBE will start flights from Exeter to Salzburg. Weekly on saturdays the flight will be operated seasonal until the end of the winter season. Bookings can be done at www.flybe.com . flyBE will employ its newest Embraer Regional Jet 195 on this service. This will be the first regular ERJ 195 service to Salzburg. 

Beside the new Exeter service flyBE will also offer again weekly flights from Birmingham and Southampton on saturdays.   

Seasonal scheduled flights during winter operated by Aer Lingus, Sterling and Finnair
(23th May 2006)

Now the airlines already  announce already their winter schedules. Among them Aer Lingus, Sterling and Finnair announced their intensions for Salzburg:

Aer Lingus:
The irish airline Aer Lingus will operate again 3times weekly between Dublin and Salzburg. In this season all flights will be flown in the mornings, which offers good connection possibilities on Aer Lingus' transatlantic services via Dublin  ( www.aerlingus.com )

Sterling:
The Danish low cost carrier Sterling will double its activities out of Salzburg. Beside the already last winter operated saturday evening flight from Copenhagen, there will be an additional flight in the afternoon. ( www.sterling.dk )

Finnair:
The national carrier of Finland won't change anything. There will be again the sunday morning flight from Helsinki operated by an Airbus A321. This flight offers also good connections for passengers coming or going to Asia via Helsinki. ( www.finnair.com )

Interesting will be the development on the Salzburg - London LGW and Salzburg - Manchester routes, as 2 airlines each are flying in concurrence to each other. Further Thomsonfly will offer a wide range of Charterflights from the UK to Salzburg during Winter 2006/2007. 

The Austrian regional airline Styrian went bankrupt last friday. Since friday also all operations are suspended and a restart will not take place. Styrian was not able to find new investors for securing enough money to maintain its operations. Salzburg Airport is looking for new partners to take over the important flights to Paris and Zurich as soon as possible.

British Airways launches Salzburg - London Gatwick service
(17 March 2006)                  

Starting 01 December 2006, British Airways will add Salzburg to its network. 5 times weekly the speedbird will fly from London's Gatwick airport to Mozart's city. The route will be served on mondays, wednesdays, fridays, saturdays and sundays, which allows best combinations for all kinds of holidays. On this route a Boeing B737-300 aircraft will be employed. Fares start at 142€ (return, incl. all taxes and fees when booking via www.ba.com)

Thanks to this new link, Salzburg can be reached very easily from the southern suburbs of London. Salzburg will also profit because of the link to a further big airline alliance. Beside Star Alliance and SkyTeam, Salzburg can now also be found in the timetables of "oneworld".

Lufthansa tests Hamburg - Salzburg
(08 February 2006)                  

As part of its "Project Hamburg" Lufthansa will test the route Hamburg - Salzburg. There will be a connection between the two cities on three saturdays in march. The service will be operated with Boeing B737-300. "Starting in March, we test new routes from Hamburg to Geneva, Salzburg and Klagenfurt during a holiday period," said Christoph Klingenberg, head of nonhub services to ATWonline.com
 

Traffic results 2005 
(23 January 2006)

Salzburg Airport had a record year in 2005. Nearly 1.7 million passengers used the Mozart airport in the last year. Here you find the detailed results:

Passengers: The overall number of passengers was 1.645.430. This is an increase of 19,2% compared to 2004. Scheduled passengers increased by 49,7% to 929.796. In the touristical sector 762.842 passengers were handeled, which represents a decrease of 4.4%. This is the result of the conversion of many outgoing charter flights to schedule flights. Outgoing charter passengers were down by 15,8% to 393.205 passengers. But the number of incoming passengers increased by 11,8% to 396.637.

Movements: The number of movements increased by 20,2% to 24.554. Scheduled movements increased by 31,3% to 17.647. Charter movements were down by 2,2% to 6.208. The number of diversion to Salzburg also decreased by 43,4% to 30. 

MTOW: The maximum take off weight was up by 22.9& to 576.668 tons. (Scheduled traffic + 52,1%, charter traffic -3,2%)

Cargo: The volume of handeled cargo also increased. Inclusive trucking the handeled cargo was up by 15,5% to 7.577,5 tons. The flown cargo increased by 2,5% to 198,5%. Post was down to just one ton.

Preview for 2006: During this year, Salzburg Airport will continue to extend its position as Austria's 2nd biggest airport. Beside the already announced new routes to Brussels and Dublin it is planned to increase the Paris route to 3 daily flights. Also it is hoped that the Amsterdam flights will be reinstalled soon. Also a new service to Rome is planned, which could be flown in cooperation between Styrian and Alitalia or as a low cost link.