Vienna: Flughafen Wien's strong growth and fine tuning its airline mix

For decades Vienna Airport has been possibly the primary transit point between western and eastern Europe, attracting carriers and traffic that have made the Flughafen Wien Group a successful financial enterprise.

Increasingly the group is focused on activities at its home base, Vienna, where passenger traffic has been increasing steadily. Since 2016 the airport's passenger growth has been exponential. That said, Vienna airport's management is keener on full service carriers and the transit traffic that they can produce rather than on low cost carriers, and it frequently says so.

Latest figures for the first quarter of 2019 suggest that the continued growth is still the case, but the airport management has to continue to grapple with a problem that many other airports would welcome: namely, the increasing numbers of low cost carriers and the passengers they generate (most of whom undoubtedly welcome them). It is a quandary that is not easily solved.