Air traffic control at Salzburg

The air traffic organization Austro Control (ACG) meets all the requirements of a modern air traffic management.

Austro control

There are as many as 4,000 controlled flights in Austrian airspace on some days, often at altitudes of 10,000 metres or more.

Few would suspect how much painstaking and stressful work on the ground goes into to managing these traffic flows safely and efficiently — from the moment when an aircraft’s engines are started up through to the point when it leaves Austrian airspace. Aided by state-of-the-art technology, our air traffic controllers bring planes into the right airways and ensure that they keep their distance from others. Around the clock, 365 days a year. In 2009 more than 1 million flight movements in Austrian airspace were handled by Austro Control.