Reading Time: < 1 minute • First half of the year 2016: Number of passengers up 2.2 percent • June 2016: 1.1 percent increase in passenger volume to almost 1,1 million Austrian Airlines carried almost 5.1 million passengers in the period January to June 2016, comprising a rise of 2.2 percent in a year-on-year comparison. The flight offering measured in […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Austrian Airlines (OS, Vienna) has announced several changes and cut-backs to its summer schedule after a lack of suitably qualified flight crew, needed to operate its incoming fleet of seventeen EMB-195s, forced a recent series of flight cancellations. “Austrian Airlines has hired a total of 110 pilots over the last twelve months. As a result, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Another Embraer aicraft in the Austrian Airlines fleet with the registration number OE-LWK took off on its initial flight OS311 from Vienna to Stockholm this morning. The Embraer aircraft is the sixth out of a total of 17 Embraer jets which Austrian Airlines will integrate into its fleet by the end of 2017. In April […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Due to the high level of demand related to the UEFA Euro 2016, Austrian Airlines is expanding its flight offering to be able to fly as many fans as possible to France. In addition to deploying larger aircraft, Austrian Airlines is increasing frequencies for flights between Vienna and Paris and Vienna and Lyon. On balance, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines will cancel 150 flights in June because of a pilot shortage again this year. The Austrian flag carrier will wet-lease three aircraft during the European summer peak season to stabilize operations. The pilot shortage this year comes as the airline is transferring its Fokker 70/100 fleet to Embraer E195s in a […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The summer is fast approaching with its fantastic weather. Austrian Airlines is expanding its flight offering to Spain and Italy just in time for the upcoming bathing suit and bikini season. As of today, the airline will fly to Jerez and Bari once a week. Flights to Bari will be offered with a stopover first […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Austrian Airlines is launching a wet lease agreement with SunExpress Deutschland. • Objective: cover peak capacity requirements The objective of this cooperation is to cover peak capacity requirements, above all in the particularly dense summer flight schedule. A Boeing 737-800 aircraft along with the cockpit and cabin crew of SunExpress Deutschland will be deployed in […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute This morning yet another Embraer jet in the Austrian Airlines fleet with the registration number OE-LWI took off for its initial flight OS177 from Vienna to Stuttgart. It is the fifth Embraer jet out of a total of 17 aircraft of this type which Austrian Airlines will integrate into its fleet by the end of […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Austrian Airlines is launching a wet lease agreement with Condor, the fourth largest German airline, which is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. The objective of this contract is to cover peak capacity requirements of the airline, above all in the particularly dense summer flight schedule. An Airbus A320 aircraft along with the cockpit and cabin […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In the period January to April 2016, Austrian Airlines transported more than 2.9 million passengers, a rise of 2.1 percent from the previous year. The flight offering in available seat kilometers (ASK) was increased by 4.0 percent to more than 6.9 billion, which is mainly due to the expanded bilateral flight traffic between Austria and […]