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Vaccination Drive and Testing Strategy Should Enable Healthy Travel for Everyone in 2021 - Vienna Airport Expects Recovery of Flight Traffic No Later Than in the Second Half of the Year - Seite 3

A special year for VIE: Longest passenger flight and Europe's first airport
testing station

In any case, 2020 will go down in airport history as a very special year. For
one thing, with only 7.8 million passengers in 2020, Vienna Airport only
registered as "few" passengers as it last did in the year 1994. Vienna Airport
recorded the strongest decreases in April and May 2020, when 99% fewer
passengers were handled, as well as in the months of June, November and
December, when passenger volume was down by more than 90%. On Easter Monday,
namely 13 April 2020, only 154 passengers frequented the terminal building.
1,670 tonnes of medical aid supplies were delivered by airplane. In 2020,
Austrian Airlines flew from Auckland to Vienna, making it the longest passenger
flight to Vienna in the history of Vienna Airport. In order to at least make it
possible for travellers to take business trips, Vienna Airport launched its PCR
testing station in May 2020, making it the European forerunner in this regard.
Up until today, about 130,000 PCR tests have been carried out.

Development of international strategic investments

The international strategic investments of the Flughafen Wien Group were also
strongly impacted by the COVID-10 pandemic. Malta Airport reported a passenger
volume of 1,748,050 travellers, passengers, representing a decline of 76.1% from
2019. Kosice Airport handled 94,428 passengers in 2020, comprising a year-on-
year decrease of 82.6%.

Forecast for passenger development: about 15.9 million passengers in the
Flughafen Wien Group and approx. 12.5 million passengers at Vienna Airport in
2021

The year 2021 will result in an upswing in flight traffic but will remain a
challenging time. From today's perspective, the first three to six months of the
year will remain weak, but a substantial increase in passenger volumes is
expected starting in the summer and in the second half of 2021. Flughafen Wien
AG expects about 12.5 million travellers at Vienna Airport in the entire year
2021, and about 15.9 million travellers in the Flughafen Wien Group (Vienna
Airport and the international strategic investments in Malta Airport and Kosice
Airport). However, the crucial factors to ensure growth once again will be high
vaccination coverage rates achieved as quickly as possible, as well as uniform
travel regulations.

Financial guidance 2021

The Flughafen Wien Group has established a sound economic basis for its business
operations and plans to be profitable again in 2021. The company has secured