Austrian Airlines to implement a tough savings operation
Austrian Airlines, part of the Lufthansa group, will have to save heavily in the face of stiff competition of low-cost airlines on its home...
Austrian Airlines registers 5.5% rise in passenger volume in the first nine months of 2019, 4.3% in September
• Q1 to Q3 2019: Over 11.2 million passengers on board of Austrian Airlines
• Growth on routes to Europe, North America and Middle East/Africa
•...
First additional Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 aircraft landed in Vienna
• Ten additional Airbus jets designed to strengthen the flight hub in Vienna
• Upgrading of the Austrian fleet and capacity expansion to be carried...
Austrian Airlines takes over some Eurowings routes from Vienna – Eurowings expands in Salzburg and Innsbruck
Austrian and Eurowings fly in New Formation in Austria
• Strengthening of the hub: Barcelona, Birmingham, Rome new in OS flight plan
• Austrian takes...
With 5.7 percent again strong increase in passenger volume for Austrian Airlines in July 2019
• July 2019: over 1.5 million passengers on board, up 5.7 percent
• July 2019: capacity utilisation up 1.2 percentage points to 86.6 percent
• January...
Lufthansa Group Airlines welcome around 14.6 million passengers on board in July 2019 (+3.3%)
Number of passengers rises by 3.3 percent year-on-year
Capacity utilisation increases by 0.6 percentage points to 86.9 percent
Strongest passenger growth increase in...
Austrian Airlines financial results for the first half of 2019: Earnings still in the red
• Q2 profit of EUR 46 million insufficient to offset Q1 loss of EUR 99 million
• Adjusted EBIT down to minus EUR 53 million...
Six additional Airbus A320s for Austrian Airlines, which will phase-out turboprops
• CCO Andreas Otto: “Strong signal towards low-cost competitors”
• First aircraft scheduled for delivery in August 2019
• Fleet development: Jets will gradually replace turbopropsThe...
Austrian Airlines traffic results for the first half of 2019: 5.9% rise in passenger volume (+4.7% in June)
• First half-year 2019: More than 6.7 million passengers on board, up 5.9 percent
• 4.7 percent passenger increase in Europe, 13.2 percent up on...
Austrian Airlines traffic results for May 2019: Increased demand results in 4.4% passenger growth
• May 2019: over 1.3 million passengers flew with Austrian Airlines, up 4.4 percent
• May 2019: capacity utilisation up 4.6 percentage points to 79.6...
European Elections 2019: Austrian Airlines declares its commitment to Europe: “Austrian Airlines is also European”
• Austrian Airlines has displayed the EU flag on all aircraft since 1997
• The Austrian flag carrier employs about 7,000 people from 58 nations
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Lufthansa improves travel experience on short- and medium-haul routes
New, innovative seats make travelling even more comfortable
USB port, tablet holder and more personal space
First Airbus A321neo delivered with single cabin...
Austrian Airlines traffic results for April 2019: 5.9% more passengers, excellent performance on North America
• April 2019: about 1.3 million passengers flew with Austrian Airlines, up 5.9 percent
• North America: 18.2 percent increase in passenger volume, capacity utilization...
Austrian Airlines reports Q1 2019 earnings decline
• Intercont-Business drives passenger growth: plus seven percent
• Strong competition leads to a drop in first-quarter earnings to minus EUR 99 million
• High fuel...
Austrian Airlines lands safely in Montreal
• Daily flight service in the summer, five times each week in the winter month
• Boeing 767 aircraft deployed on this route
• Partnership with...
Closure of Salzburg Airport: Austrian Airlines expands railway offering between Salzburg and Vienna
• Salzburg Airport closed for runway renewal until the end of May 2019
• Up to 30 daily AIRail train connections between the Central Station...
Austrian Airlines reports 7.3% increase in passenger volume during first quarter, 7% in March
• January to March 2019: 2.7 million passengers flew with Austrian Airlines
• Long-haul routes develop gratifyingly: 14.6 percent rise in the first quarter2.7...
Heist at Tirana Airport on departing Austrian A320, one gunman shot
On 9 April, a few gunmen made a heist at Tirana Airport (TIA/LTIA) on an Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-214 (OE-LBY) ready to depart to...
Austrian Airlines recycles plastic cups into synthetic crude oil
OMV innovation project produces synthetic crude from Austrian Airlines plastic cups
• Since January 2019 OMV has been processing Austrian Airlines' plastic cups in the...
Austrian Airlines annual results 2018: passenger record, but earnings under pressure
• Expensive fuel: Adjusted EBIT down from EUR 93 million to EUR 83 million in 2018
• High demand: strong passenger growth
• Tough competition: CEO...