Vienna Airport is Austria's most important job engine

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In the past few years Vienna Airport has developed into Austria’s most important job engine. Almost 16,000 persons hold full-time positions in 230 enterprises located directly in Schwechat. Airport Vienna safeguards indirectly another 52,000 jobs (30 percent more than in 1999) in supplier companies.

According to the recent study “Economic Factor Vienna Airport” by the Economic Research Institute (Wifo) and Joanneum Research (JR), this corresponds to an annual plus of 5 percent.

For comparison: in Austria the number of employed persons increases annually by about 0.5 percent. “Per 1 million passengers Vienna Airport creates 1,000 jobs – probably there is no other business location in Austria generating jobs at a comparable pace”, Vienna Airport CEO Herbert Kaufmann informed reporters on 22 June 2007.

The most important employer at Vienna Airport is currently Austrian Airlines (AUA) with almost 7,000 staff members. Vienna and Lower Austria benefit most significantly from the airport. The total value-added generated by the aviation sector amounts to 4.8 billion euros. The tax revenue totals almost 1 billion euros. - Source: Government of Austria

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Posted July 6th, 2007 by Armen Hareyan