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Austria is a winter sports paradise and attracts millions of ski tourists to the country every year. The federal states of Tyrol and Salzburg immediately come to mind, but Vorarlberg, Carinthia and Styria also have a lot to offer. Olympic champions such as Benni Raich, Marcel Hirscher and Hermann Maier are well known in the two tourism strongholds, but Carinthia also has gold winners such as Franz Klemm and Matthias Mayer.

But what does that mean in terms of tourism? It is known from aviation circles that the Austrian regional airports of Innsbruck & Salzburg generate a large part of their passenger numbers mainly in winter. Mainly through charter flights and especially on Saturdays when the bed change in the hotels is imminent. The ski tourists mainly fly in from northern European regions such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland.

There is often debate about the ranking of the most famous ski resorts. But if you follow the well-known website “Bergfex.at”, an Austrian internet platform for mountain tourism and alpine sports, you get the following top 30 list:

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct
, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct

And it is precisely these ski areas marked in yellow that provide us with the link to the main question of this report, which is: “What’s going on at Klagenfurt Airport in winter?”

In order to answer this as best as possible, a look at the respective arrival schedules via “Flightradar24” at the three airports should give us an overview of what is going on on a classic winter Saturday.

A picture says more than 1000 words

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct
, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct
, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct

These pictures should be enough to best describe the situation!

Most popular ski areas in Carinthia

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct

In addition to great skiers who regularly collect points in the ÖSV squad in the World Cup, Carinthia also has well-known ski areas. Above all, a top 10 ski area in Austria, Nassfeld.

  1. Nassfeld

110 kilometers of slopes in blue, red and black – Carinthia’s largest and sunniest ski area on the border with Italy

80 kilometers of slopes, directly accessible via the Tauern Autobahn (A10). Fantastic slopes of all levels of difficulty connect the federal states of Salzburg and Carinthia.

53 kilometers of slopes – In the heart of Carinthia, just a few kilometers from the city of Villach, the Gerlitzen is very easy to reach.

103 kilometers of slopes, Bad Kleinkirchheim is known for its FIS Women’s World Cup race, but is also the hotspot for all fans of hits and folk music with the “When the Music Plays” Winter Open Air.

43 kilometers of slopes – the winter jewel on the border of Carinthia and Styria, high up in the Nockberge.

How far are these ski areas from Klagenfurt Airport?

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Assuming that the tourists are picked up from Klagenfurt Airport and transported to the respective ski area to their hotel by car/minibus/bus, the following travel times +/- can be calculated.

  • Flight Klagenfurt to Nassfeld: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • Flight Klagenfurt to Katschberg: 1 journey 15 minutes
  • Flight from Klagenfurt to Gerlitzen Alpe: 35 minutes
  • Flight Klagenfurt to Bad Kleinkirchheim: 55 minutes
  • Klagenfurt Airport to Turracher Höhe: 1 hour
, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct
Logo Klagenfurt Airport (Photo: Andreas Knoll).

Spend the 2023/24 winter season abroad – statistics from the state of Carinthia

The number of arrivals of non-Austrian guests in the 2023/24 winter season is 519,990 and the number of overnight stays is 2,243,132, writes the State Office for Statistics of the Carinthian state government.

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct

Germany is by far the largest player of foreigners in Carinthia. Surprisingly, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Netherlands follow in second place, and they often travel to Carinthia specifically for ice skating in addition to skiing. This is also followed by Poland, Croatia, the neighboring countries of Slovenia, Italy and other countries that are not quantified in this graphic.

Attentive observers would now claim that Salzburg and Innsbruck airports live solely from British, Irish and Scandinavian passengers, which Carinthia does not have. To a certain extent, this is also true if you exclude the number of overnight stays in these exact countries from the statistics for Carinthia.

Gross Britain recorded just 1.8% of the total overnight stays of all foreign tourists and Denmark recorded 0.7%, whereas Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Norway play no role at all in Carinthia.

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct

Nevertheless, this in no way justifies the fact that only a single charter plane from Hamburg lands at Klagenfurt Airport.

, aviation-How Klagenfurt Airport looks speechless to Salzburg and Innsbruck winter after winter – Aviation.Direct
Klagenfurt Airport (Photo: Andreas Knoll).

Where should charter planes come from for more winter tourism?

Germany Not only does it deliver the most tourists to Carinthia, but it also has regions such as northern and eastern Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia with cities with millions of inhabitants, some of which are over 10 hours’ drive from Carinthia. Airports in these regions excluding Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Hanover, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund.

Die Netherlands is crazy about Carinthia in summer and winter. Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam airports could fly in potential tourists.

pollen Would be the third large group that could be handled using charter packages. Pollen has experienced something of an economic miracle over the past three decades, and the country has become a growth champion. There are larger airports in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Katowice, Wroclaw and Poznan.

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Apron at Klagenfurt Airport on a Saturday (Photo: Andreas Knoll).

Potential markets that do not have any mountains to show for themselves and have the ability to pay:

  • Belgian – Brussels, Antwerp airports
  • Great Britain – London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Belfast airports
  • Denmark – Copenhagen, Billund, Aalborg airports

Why can’t Carinthia achieve what Salzburg + Tyrol has been doing for decades?

If you ask around the Carinthian population, you will almost always get the same answer from all sectors of society. Too many quarrels, arguments and no one begrudges the other anything. It’s the best danger you can take away from others. As they say in the dialect in Carinthia: “Nothing to me, nothing to you”.

What is missing is common cohesion, the credo is missing:

“pull together”

Who exactly does that mean? Airport, tourism, economy, politics, hotel industry, Carinthia advertising.

It remains to be seen whether someone will have the power and ingenuity to turn this around in the near future. Because one thing is also clear: fewer than zero aircraft cannot land. Optimistically speaking, things can only get better so as not to completely lose hope. The beautiful mountain landscape of Carinthia, cuisine and modern slopes are there, but the implementation is lacking.

And if you would like to see how things work in other regions of Austria, you should look to Tyrol and Salzburg and ideally get trained there.

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Embraer 195 in Klagenfurt (Photo: Andreas Knoll).

This post was written by: Andreas Knoll

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