Graz Airport
Graz Airport is the 3rd airport of Austria (after Vienna and Salzburg). The name of the airport is Thalerhof.
Airport Data
International codes
- ICAO Code: LOWG
- IATA Code: GRZ
Technical data
- Location: 46°59´37"N 15°26´24"E
- Altitude: 337 m
- Runway: 17/35 (HDG 348), 3000x45 m, Asphalt
Scheduled destinations
- Lufthansa: Frankfurt and Munich
- Austrian Airlines: Vienna, Linz and Dusseldorf
- Styrian Spirit: Stuttgart, Zurich and Dubrovnik
- Welcome Air: Innsbruck, Hannover, Gothenburg and Stavanger
- Ryanair: London
- Intersky: Friedrichshafen
Airport History
The construction of the airport began in 1913 with the construction of a grass runway and the first hangars and resulted in the very first flight in 1914. In 1925 the set-up of the first domestic flight in Austria started with the line Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt. In 1937 - after a raising number of passengers - the construction of a terminal building began. After the end of the second world war, however, cival and military aviation was forbidden in Austria. After reopening of austrian airspace in 1951, a new concrete runway of 1500 m was built in Graz. This runway was extended to 2000 m in 1962. The existing connection Vienna-Graz-Klagenfurt grew quickly and the first international scheduled flight started a couple of years later. In 1966 the first international flight Graz-Linz-Frankfurt was a fact. In 1969 the runway was newly extended to 2500 and a new modern terminal building was necessary. The flight from Graz to Frankfurt was carried out since 1974. Special highlights of the airport were the landing of the Concorde in 1981 and the Boeing 747-400 on the occasion of its 70th birthday in 1984. 10 years later again a new building was constructed with a capacity of maximum 750.000 passengers per year. The final extension of the runway was to 3000 m in 1998. Since the start of the 21st century the number of passengers broke the 750.000-mark and lies in 2004 just below 900.000. This lead to the construction of a second terminal and extension of the current terminal building in 2003. The construction of the wonderful new terminal is planned to finish in 2005.