VIE?

By grenz
May 31st, 2005 @ 3:30 PM Uncategorized

I flickred around, using “Vienna” and “Wien” tags and I found this nice picture of the runway of Vienna International Airport. Almost looks like a swamp out of concrete.

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Nobody calls the airport “Vienna International Airport”.
If you talk about VIE, you talk about “Schwechat”. Why? The correct geographical name of the airport is Wien-Schwechat.

Here is an interesting collection of old airport postcards.
There are even some wonderful postcards of Wien-Schwechat, too.
Postcard 1 // Postcard 2 // Postcard 3 // Postcard 4 // Postcard 5

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4 Comments so far

  1. umberto (unregistered) on May 31st, 2005 @ 5:23 pm

    Why this almost identical re-posting of one of your previous posts ?

  2. grenz (unregistered) on May 31st, 2005 @ 5:45 pm

    well well! you got me!

    but.. but just an additional benefit…

    basically i wanted to post the picture of the runway… and i thought… well… add the postcards once more. internet user memory span is short.

  3. umberto (unregistered) on May 31st, 2005 @ 5:50 pm

    you wasn

  4. arved (unregistered) on May 31st, 2005 @ 8:10 pm

    BTW. Because every Viennese calls VIE “Schwechat” the ticket inspectors of the S7 have a tough job, as the station named “Schwechat” (former “Gro


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