Austrian Airlines has added seven routes to next summer’s schedule. Three are resumptions: Billund (last served in March 2017), Palermo (October 2019), Vilnius (March 2020), while four are genuinely new routes: Marseille, Porto, Tromsø (new for summer) and Tivat. When added to Austrian’s existing network, it will serve 100 European destinations from its Vienna hub […]
November 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Wizz Air began its first route to Vienna (from Gdansk) on 27 April 2018, just a few weeks before the airport became a designated base in mid-June 2018. Up until that point it had never operated any flights to/from the Austrian capital. The launch announcement promised 30 low-fare routes to 22 countries. That first summer […]
October 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Many aviation analysts are predicting a tough winter for Europe’s airlines. Having relied on pent-up demand for foreign vacations to get them through this summer, there are ominous signs that the coming months may be more challenging. The increase in fuel costs for unhedged airlines, the on-going conflict in Ukraine and the related increase in […]
September 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Eurowings launched two new routes between Germany and Austria on Monday 13 September. The Lufthansa subsidiary began connecting Düsseldorf and Linz with 5-weekly service, and Stuttgart and Graz with 4-weekly service. Both routes will be operated using the airline’s A319s and A320s. Before the pandemic, both routes were served by fellow Lufthansa Group member Austrian […]
September 15, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Friday 23 July was the launch date for Saudi Arabian carrier flynas’s new 3-weekly service from Riyadh to Salzburg in Austria. The 3,890-kilometre route will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and faces no direct competition. The inaugural service (flight number XY 351 operated by an Airbus A320neo, registration HZ-NS29) departed Riyadh at 06:27 local […]
July 28, 2021 | Latest Route News +