Vienna Airport scraps landing fees to revive air traffic

Vienna Airport plans to scrap landing fees until the end of the year to help revive air traffic and boost its revenue after the coronavirus brought it to a near standstill. The operator said Wednesday that it plans to reintroduce the landing tax from January 2021, but to offer a reduced fee per passenger to airlines that provide at least 65% of the capacity initially planned for 2020. Primarily serving as a hub to southern and eastern Europe, the airport is largely dependent on Germany’s Lufthansa , which carried more than 40% of Vienna’s passengers last year and is now battling to avoid insolvency. Normally, an airline pays a fare of E760 to land an Airbus A320 and fees per passenger at departure are E14 on average, Co-CE Julian Jaeger said. These passenger taxes could be reduced by 2 to 4 euros, depending on the destination, Jaeger said.<br/>