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This Aviation.Direct section deals with aviation topics from Austria.

This Aviation.Direct section deals with aviation topics from Austria, one of Aviation.Direct's two home bases. The latest information from Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and  Klagenfurt You will always find the latest information in this section.

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Russia resumes air traffic with eight countries

Despite the pandemic, Russia is resuming regular air traffic with eight countries. Connections with Great Britain will be permitted again from June 2, the government in Moscow announced yesterday. From June 10, regular flight operations will also begin again with Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg and Croatia, among others. Significantly expanded

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Peoples increases Altenrhein-Vienna again

The Austrian regional airline Peoples will be operating the Altenrhein-Vienna route more frequently again from September 13, 2021. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, double daily flights will be offered again. On Mondays and Thursdays, flights will continue to fly once a day. From the winter flight schedule, additional flights are also planned on Fridays and Sundays.

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From Vienna: Wizz Air flies to Split and Dubrovnik

Now that the quarantine rules for travellers from Croatia have been lifted, Wizz Air is announcing its Croatia offensive today and introducing two new connections: From the beginning of July, the low-cost airline will also fly from Vienna to the airports of the coastal cities of Split and Dubrovnik. The first planes will take off for

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Reportage: AUA says “Bye, Dash!”

For decades, turboprop aircraft of the DHC Dash 7 and 8 types were the backbone of the regional fleet of Tyrolean Airways, which was merged into Austrian Airlines a few years ago. While the Dash 7 and the smaller variants of the Dash 8 had not been in use for many years, the Dash

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End of an era: the last AUA dash flight is imminent

Today, Monday, the era of turboprop aircraft comes to an end at Austrian Airlines. The DHC Dash 905-906 will be used for the last time on the Vienna-Innsbruck-Vienna route under flight numbers OS 8 and OS 400. After that, AUA will not operate any commercial Dash flights. For the Austrian airline and in particular the merged Tyrolean

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Austria is partially abolishing pre-travel clearance

The Austrian federal government announced on Friday that from June 10, 2021, the so-called pre-travel clearance form will only have to be filled out if you are entering Austria from so-called high-incidence or virus variant areas. In the future, the system will be based on the German Robert Koch Institute. Travelling abroad will be even more difficult for Austrians.

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Belavia will no longer fly to Vienna in the future

A plane landed in Vienna on Wednesday. But now the Belarusian airline is putting flights to Austria on hold in the conflict surrounding the forced landing of a passenger plane in Minsk. Other EU countries are also affected. Several European countries issued takeoff and landing bans immediately after the incident.

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Moscow gives in: AUA gets the flight permit

The Russian authorities have today granted AUA permission for an alternative flight route from Vienna to Moscow that does not go over Belarusian airspace. AUA can therefore operate today's planned flight OS601/602 from Vienna to Moscow and back. This is reported by the ORF, among others. For the other planned

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Russia refuses Austrian Airlines the permit to fly

Austrian Airlines had to cancel flight OS601 from Vienna to Moscow due to a lack of permits. The carrier followed the EASA recommendation and wanted to fly around Belarusian airspace. Russia did not agree with this and did not grant permission for the AUA flight. The Austrian carrier is not an isolated case, as Moscow refused yesterday and

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