Salzburg. The Salzburg airport wants to grow significantly
in the years to come. Last but not least, for this
purpose no-frills airlines entering the market, are
to contribute. They already contribute to 17 per cent
of the passengers. However, the share of low-fare
airlines is to be limited. Such an upper limit could
be between one fourth and one third of the passengers,
said the airport’s authorised signatory, Heinz
Bohl, recently.
“These airlines bring a new traffic mode to
Salzburg, which boosts our development”, said
Bohl. The number of low-fare passengers is to grow
from 250,000 to 375,000 next year; this is 17 per
cent to 21 per cent of the entire passenger volume.
Salzburg’s total passenger volume is to increase
this year from 1.26m to about 1.45m passengers. In
2005, 1.8m passengers are being expected and up to
2.3m passengers by 2011.
In the current financial year, profit on ordinary
activities is to exceed expectations with € 3.1m,
but is to be less than the previous year value.
The winter flight schedule 2004/05 brought for Salzburg’s
W.A. Mozart airport a number of new destinations,
among them connections to Palma de Majorca (Niki),
Coventry (Thomson Fly), Marburg, Paris, Zurich (Styrian
Spirit), St. Petersburg (Pulkovo Aviation), Istanbul
(Turkish Airlines), Nuremberg (Air Berlin), as well
as Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover, and Berlin (HLX).
High investments in infrastructure, in the region
of € 75m, are last but not least necessary to
handle traffic at peak-times. It is reported that
in the busiest week in February 2004, 28,500 passengers
landed in 132 aircrafts. This was more than the average
volume at the Vienna airport, which was an order of
magnitude bigger, said Bohl.
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