{"id":208093,"date":"2025-09-18T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=208093"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T11:27:56","slug":"low-cost-vienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/low-cost-vienne","title":{"rendered":"Exodus planned for low-cost airlines in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Until now, Vienna has been one of the most competitive airports in the European Union.<\/strong> with a formidable offer from low-cost airlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You be the judge. This summer, the Hungarian company <strong>Wizz Air <\/strong>offers 27 destinations to 20 countries in Europe and the Middle East, including Nice. For its part, <strong>Ryanair <\/strong>flies to 76 destinations in 25 European countries. This includes flights to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airport-beauvais-traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beauvais<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/record-growth-for-marseille-airport-in-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marseille <\/a>and <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/toulouse-marrakech-orly-easyjet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Toulouse<\/strong> <\/a>in France and on<strong> Charleroi<\/strong> in Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the first half of 2025, the Ryanair group (which includes Lauda Air) had a market share of <strong>21,2%<\/strong> in Vienna, while Wizz Air's market share was<strong> 6%<\/strong>. Next in line are Germany's Eurowings with 2.4% and Turkey's Pegasus with 1.9% market share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all,<strong> in the first half of the year, low-cost services generated 31% of all passenger traffic<\/strong>. This market share is increasing slightly. By 2024,<strong> 9.7 million travellers used low-cost airlines to get to Vienna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/vienna-low-cost-europe-hub\/\" data-id=\"70789\">Vienna, Europe's new low-cost hub<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-quote\"><blockquote><p>a difficult decision, but one that is necessary to safeguard the long-term competitiveness of our company<\/p><cite>Mauro Peneda, Managing Director of Wizz Air Malta<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>But that's about to change. The cause: <strong>increased airport costs and a passenger tax that now stands at \u20ac12<\/strong> for European routes. This affects the business model of low-cost carriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 September, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wizz-air-abu-dhabi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wizz Air<\/a> has announced the closure of its Vienna base by March 2026<\/strong>. It will do so gradually, with the departure of two of the airline's aircraft and the discontinuation of services to London Gatwick and Bilbao. The last three Wizz Air aircraft based in Vienna will leave the airport next March. <strong>Mauro Peneda, Managing Director of Wizz Air Malta<\/strong>the airline's Vienna-based subsidiary, said that it was \" <em>a difficult decision, but one that is necessary to safeguard the long-term competitiveness of our company<\/em> \".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/vienna-airport-breaks-records\/\" data-id=\"213697\">Vienna airport breaks records<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ryanair-menace-et-agit\">Ryanair threatens and takes action<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Two days ago, <strong>Ryanair <\/strong>has in turn announced that it will withdraw 3 based aircraft and close 3 routes (Billund, Santander and Tallinn) from Vienna for winter 2025. Ryanair also blames what it describes as the <strong>\"punitive tax<\/strong> 12 on aviation in Austria and excessive charges at Vienna airport - which have risen by 30 % since Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carrier uses blackmail - as usual and as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/france-ryanair-winter-2025\/\">she recently did for France<\/a>. Le <strong>CEO of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary<\/strong>indicates that if the government abolishes the \u20ac12 tax and reduces airport charges, the company is ready to implement a new tax. <strong>Ambitious $1 billion growth proposal for Austria<\/strong>. By 2030, it would base<strong> ten Boeing 737-8 200<\/strong> new-generation engines that are quieter and more environmentally friendly.  It also promises to open up <strong>40 new routes and carry 12 million passengers a year<\/strong>. This compares with 6.6 million last year, an increase of 70%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael O'Leary<\/strong> commented: \" <em>Austria remains one of the few EU countries (like Germany) that has still not managed to return to its pre-Covid traffic levels. This is despite <strong>Ryanair's rapid growth in Austria since 2019 (+160%)<\/strong>including the addition of 4 new routes to\/from Salzburg and Linz this winter<\/em>\" .<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explosion in costs at Vienna airport and the increase in passenger tax in Austria are turning low-cost carriers away from the Austrian capital.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":208103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[133,1035,1361],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-208093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerien","tag-aeroports","tag-vienne","tag-low-cost","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Les compagnies low-cost se retirent de Vienne<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Des co\u00fbts trop \u00e9lev\u00e9s \u00e0 Vienne se traduisent par une r\u00e9duction des lignes a\u00e9riennes des transporteurs low-cost.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/low-cost-vienne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exode programm\u00e9 pour les compagnies low-cost \u00e0 Vienne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Des co\u00fbts trop \u00e9lev\u00e9s \u00e0 Vienne se traduisent par une r\u00e9duction des lignes a\u00e9riennes des transporteurs low-cost.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/low-cost-vienne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Voyages d&#039;affaires\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T11:47:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-29T11:27:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vienna-airport.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"469\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne\",\"name\":\"Les compagnies low-cost se retirent de Vienne\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vienna-airport.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-18T11:47:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-29T11:27:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3\"},\"description\":\"Des co\u00fbts trop \u00e9lev\u00e9s \u00e0 Vienne se traduisent par une r\u00e9duction des lignes a\u00e9riennes des transporteurs low-cost.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/low-cost-vienne#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vienna-airport.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/vienna-airport.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":469,\"caption\":\"Plus de 9,5 millions de passagers utilisent une compagnie low-cost \u00e0 Vienne. 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