Austrian Airlines introduced flights between Vienna and Seville in Southern Spain on Saturday 14 October. The 2,175-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the A320 aircraft. Frequencies will increase to 3-weekly during S24. The airline competes directly against Ryanair’s 2-weekly service between the two cities. Flight OS389 departs Vienna at 09:35 […]
October 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Vienna Airport has seen strong air traffic recovery, outpacing many of its neighbouring peers. As it continues to develop its short-, medium- and long-haul network, one of its top priorities is securing a carrier from the United States. “One thing that is really high up on my wishlist is a US carrier. From North America, […]
October 16, 2023 | Air Service Community News
Aerotalia opened its new base in Ancona on Sunday 1 October, launching several new routes. Rome FCO (2-daily) Milan LIN (12-weekly) Naples (daily) Vienna (2-weekly) Barcelona (2-weekly) Bucharest BBU (3-weekly) All flights will be operated by the 68-seat ATR72 turboprop aircraft wet-leased from Romania’s Air Connect. The three domestic services are operated as Public Service Obligation flights. […]
October 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air introduced flights between Vienna and Egyptian resort city of Hurghada on Monday September 25. The 2,760-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the 239-seat A321neo aircraft. The ULCC will compete directly against Air Cairo’s 5-weekly rotations and Corendon Airlines’ weekly flight. Flight W62973 takes off from Vienna at 06:25 […]
September 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air introduced two new destinations from its Vienna base on Tuesday 13 June, with the addition of Bilbao and Kuwait City to its network. Both the 1,600-kilometre service to Bilbao and the 3,405-kilometre route to Kuwait City will be maintained 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the A321neo aircraft. The airline faces no competition […]
June 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Austrian Airlines added its second destination in Montenegro by introducing seasonal flights between Vienna and Tivat on Saturday 13 May. The 655-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the A320 aircraft. The Lufthansa Group member faces no competition on the route. Flight OS725 departs Vienna at 09:10 local time, arriving […]
May 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Azerbaijan Airlines has expanded its presence in Europe by introducing a pair of new routes from its hub in Baku to Vienna and Barcelona on Tuesday 2 May. Both the 2,780-kilometre service to Vienna and the 3,990-kilometre route to Barcelona will be maintained 2-weekly with the A319 aircraft. Flights between the Azeri and Austrian capitals […]
May 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Austrian Airlines introduced a new seasonal summer service between its hub in Vienna and Billund on Tuesday 4 April. The 990-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the 120-seat E195 aircraft. Austrian will compete directly against Ryanair’s 3-weekly flights on the route. What they said Jan Hessellund, the CEO of […]
April 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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 +
Thanks to its Lauda subsidiary, Ryanair is Vienna’s second-biggest operator. This isn’t a new development: it has been number two since 2021, three years after the full acquisition of A320-operating Lauda. However, Ryanair’s share of Vienna capacity has grown significantly. According to Cirium schedules information data, it ended 2022 with 6.1 million two-way seats and […]
February 1, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Austrian Airlines now serves Tromsø in northern Norway after the Star Alliance carrier began weekly (Saturday) service from Vienna on 17 December. The 2,410-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s A320 fleet and will operate until the end of March. Interestingly, Cirium data also shows the route operating weekly next June, July and August. […]
December 29, 2022 | 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