The reason for this, according to company information on Tuesday, was a lower low-cost offering and canceled connections due to the Middle East crisis.

Across the entire Vienna Airport Group, traffic in September slightly decreased by 2.0 percent to 4,138,465 passengers. At the Vienna location, the number of local passengers fell by 7.9 percent to 2,238,344, while transfer traffic decreased by 5.4 percent to 660,224 passengers.

Flight movements decreased by 6.6 percent to 21,008 take-offs and landings, while freight volume increased by 9.5 percent to 28,180 tons.

Significant increases were recorded in September by the group’s foreign participations. At Malta Airport, passenger traffic rose by 12.0 percent to 1,109,789 travelers, and at Kosice Airport, there was an increase of 32.2 percent to 118,079 passengers. Across the entire group, the number of passengers from January to September 2026 increased by 0.7 percent to 33,111,562. In Vienna, traffic shrank by 4.5 percent to 23,478,801 people in the first nine months.

By region, traffic from Vienna developed differently in September. While the Far East increased by 6.5 percent to 58,272 travelers, there was a decline to Western Europe by 8.3 percent to 1,207,510 passengers and to Eastern Europe a decrease of 16.0 percent to 213,239 passengers. To the Near and Middle East region, 57,430 passengers flew, 28.0 percent fewer than in the same month last year.

Today, the parking operator Tom Parking provided an overview of visitor flows at Schwechat Airport. According to this provider, bookings with Hungarian license plates decreased by 25 percent from January to September 2026, with Slovak license plates by 22 percent. For guests from the Czech Republic, the decline was 11 percent year-on-year. For Austrian license plates, an increase of 3 percent was recorded.

(APA)

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