For Vienna's Airport Manager, the "Ticket Tax Is a Shot at the...
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Ryanair is cutting routes and threatening further cuts: At Vienna-Schwechat Airport, passenger numbers are falling while competition is growing in Bratislava – jobs are at risk. Our question of the day of 10 October is: "Bill-flyers are pulling off: Does the air traffic tax damage our business location? "Your opinion counts! Must Austria cancel the tax in order not to fall back further in competition with Bratislava and other locations? Or do we…
The location costs in Bratislava, 55 kilometers from Vienna are one third lower. "The two million passengers that we are missing this year, around which Bratislava has more than that," says Günther Ofner, Executive Board member of Flughafen Wien AG.
Passenger numbers at Vienna Airport are falling. Airport CEO Günther Ofner commented on this in the ZIB 2.
Vienna-Schwechat Airport recorded a decline of 3.2 percent to 14.3 million passengers this year in the first half of the year. Günther Ofner, Executive Board member of Flughafen Wien AG, refers to high location costs in the ZiB2. Cheap airlines such as Wizz Air therefore turn their backs on the airport or, like Ryanair, withdraw aircraft from the Vienna location and switch to Bratislava at significantly lower costs.
VIENNA. The number of passengers at Vienna Airport fell by 3.2 percent in the first half of the year. Günther Ofner, Managing Board member, criticises high taxes and the more favourable competition in Bratislava.
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