Tag: Michael Zach

Air cargo handling increases at Vienna Airport

The positive growth trend in airfreight at Vienna Airport seen since the start of this year continued in the second quarter of 2024: Vienna Airport handled 141,118 tons of air cargo between January and the end of June. This represents a year-on-year growth of 20,861 tons or 17%. This level is als...

Positive cargo development at Vienna Airport

In the first quarter of 2024 the air freight business at Vienna Airport is picking up again significantly with 68,058 tons of air freight handled for import and export. This represents a year-on-year increase of 16 percent. Compared to the pre-coronavirus year 2019, the current figures represe...

Lufthansa Cargo continues to rely on the cargo handling services of Vienna Airport

Lufthansa Cargo has extended its contract with Vienna Airport for cargo handling services until the end of 2028. Lufthansa Cargo has been relying on the cargo handling services of the Austrian capital's airport since 2010. In addition to general cargo and mail, temperature-sensitive pharmaceut...

Stable air cargo year 2023 at Vienna Airport

Air cargo handling at Vienna Airport remained stable: More than 172,000 tons were handled for transport by cargo or passenger aircraft in 2023. This represents an increase of two percent compared to 2022. Due to the recovery in global air traffic, more belly capacities were available again in ...

Michael Zach takes over as head of ground services at Vienna Airport

Michael Zach has taken over the management of ground handling services at Flughafen Wien AG as of the 1th January 2024 and is now responsible for all cargo, baggage, and ramp handling as well as aircraft de-icing. Having worked at the airport since 2006, Michael Zach has been responsible for Sale...

Vienna Airport Pharma Handling Center grows annual tonnage by 64 percent

The Vienna Airport Pharma Handling Center (VPHC) increased its total tonnage by 64 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year. With the handling of more than 3,600 tons of pharmaceuticals, biotech products and other temperature-sensitive goods, an increase of over 1,400 tons was recorded. W...

Korean Air Cargo relies on Vienna Airport as cargo hub

Korean Air Cargo is recording rising freight figures at the airfreight hub Vienna Airport: In the pandemic years 2020 and 2021, tonnages increased by more than 40 percent, and the South Korean airline is also recording steadily rising growth rates on its route between Seoul-Incheon and Vienna in the...

Vienna Airport and Lufthansa Cargo launch pharma cooperation

The Vienna Airport Pharma Handling Center (VPHC) at Vienna Airport now also handles pharma freight for Lufthansa Cargo. As part of a cooperation between the Lufthansa Group's cargo subsidiary and Vienna Airport, the handling of all pharma cargo transported on board Austrian Airlines aircraft to or f...

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