Austrian is a member of Star Alliance and is part of the Lufthansa Group. According to Planespotters.net, its fleet consists of 68 aircraft, although not all of them are active. It has 29 A320ceos, 17 E195s, six A321ceos, six 777-300ERs, five A320neos, three 767-300ERs and two 787-9s. Its Dreamliners entered service in 2024. Austrian has […]
December 15, 2025 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Vienna had over 31.7 million passengers in 2024, becoming its highest-trafficked year to date. That is despite various airlines no longer serving the airport, including Russian and Ukrainian operators (due to the war) and China Southern, Condor, Royal Jordanian, TAROM, Thai Airways, Transavia Netherlands, and more. The Austrian capital benefited from gaining Air Cairo in […]
February 1, 2025 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Austrian city of Innsbruck is famous for its mountains, skiing, other winter activities and its historic centre. Located between the German and Italian borders, it is closer to Munich and Milan than it is to Vienna. It is a captain-only landing. In 2023, Innsbruck welcomed 906,000 passengers, making it the country’s third-busiest airport after […]
January 9, 2025 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Salzburg was the birthplace of Mozart and the location of the Sound of Music. It is famous for its UNESCO heritage centre, mountainous backdrop, and being popular for skiing and tourism generally. While only Austria’s fifth most populous city, Salzburg welcomed 1.6 million passengers in 2023, down by nearly 7% compared to 2019. Excluding the […]
December 16, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Austrian Airlines is part of the Lufthansa Group and is a Star Alliance member. According to Planespotters.net, it has 66 aircraft averaging 17.3 years. It has 34 A320s, 17 Embraer E195s, six A321s, six 777-200ERs and three 767-300ERs. The last of its Q400s were retired in 2021. Incoming 787-9s, the first of which is due […]
March 11, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has served Vienna since April 2018, and its base opened later that year. The Austrian capital has been a hotbed of competition and capacity, as the airline fought it out with fellow ULCC Ryanair and its Laudamotion unit (later Lauda). Ryanair acquired a stake in Lauda in early 2018, rising to take full control […]
February 5, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Salzburg is famous as the birthplace of Mozart, the location of the Sound of Music, its UNESCO heritage centre and mountainous backdrop. While only Austria’s fifth most populous city, Salzburg had almost 1.39 million passengers between January and October 2023. Helped by being a popular tourist destination, including in winter for skiing, it is country’s […]
December 19, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Austria’s second most populous city, Graz is located almost the same distance to Zagreb and Ljubljana as it is to Vienna. According to Graz’s own figures, it had almost 562,000 passengers in 2022, nearly half (54.1%) of 2019. It was, and remains, Austria’s fourth-busiest airport. Its slow recovery is not hard to understand. Among other […]
May 8, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Austrian Airlines introduced a brand new seasonal service between Vienna and Marseille on Friday 31 March. The 1,020-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with a mix of 180-seat A320s and 120-seat E195s. Austrian Airlines competes directly against Ryanair on the route, with the latter maintaining a 5-weekly service. Austrian’s arrival […]
April 3, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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