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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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In cooperation with Austrian Airlines and Eurowings, the tour operator Tui Austria is also offering Calabria package tours in the upcoming 2024 summer season. From June 2024, Tui will offer two weekly flights with Austrian Airlines from Vienna and from May 12, 2024, one weekly departure each Sunday with Eurowings from Innsbruck and Salzburg
From April 1, 2024, coaches will once again run between Innsbruck and Munich on behalf of Lufthansa. The Kranich Group wants to use these to connect the Tyrolean capital to the Munich hub. The Frankfurt flights will be discontinued. The Italian regional airline Skyalps has repeatedly offered to Lufthansa as a possible interlining partner.
On Friday, March 08, 2024, a sports plane that was trying to land at the Tyrolean airport from Switzerland crash-landed at Innsbruck Airport. According to initial findings, there was a technical defect in the landing gear area. A 66-year-old pilot was supposed to fly the twin-engine plane to Innsbruck
On February 29, 1964, the worst aviation accident to date to occur on Austrian soil occurred. A Bristol 175 Britannia Series 312, carrying 75 passengers and eight crew members, crashed into the Glungezer just below the summit and crashed. All people died.
The “Valluga” weather radar, which is located on the Arlberg, has been out of service since 2017 because it was severely damaged by a lightning strike. Since then, there has been a dispute over who will pay for the repairs. Now the federal states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg have reached an agreement with the federal government. The federal government is contributing 2,5 million
The Innsbruck Airport Resident Protection Association criticises the fact that no investigation has been carried out into the kerosene combustion that occurs during take-offs and landings at the airport in the Tyrolean capital. They also point to the special geographical location. In recent years, companies in a wide range of industries have been trying to create a particularly
The Austrian commercial airports together had around 2023 million passengers in 33,2. This means that the airports were able to increase their traffic by 25,3 percent compared to the previous period and have reached 92,1 percent of the traffic volume they had before the corona pandemic. The lion's share of passengers came from Vienna-Schwechat. "After the pandemic lull, passenger numbers are increasing
From March 2024, there will no longer be any midday flights on the Austrian Airlines domestic route between Innsbruck and Vienna. The carrier is thinning out the route further and will only offer double the daily limit in the future. This will continue Tyrol's dependence on the Lufthansa Group's route network. It was recently announced that
The airline Icelandair started a seasonal flight between Keflavik and Innsbruck on Saturday, January 27, 2024. This will be served with Boeing 737-Max-8s for the next five weeks. On Sunday at 17:07 p.m., an Icelandair Boeing 737 Max landed for the first time with 150 passengers on board in great spirits.
The passengers on Eurowings flight EW8760 had actually booked a non-stop flight from Berlin-Brandenburg to Innsbruck. However, despite the weather in the Tyrolean capital being suitable for flying, they were given a non-stop flight to Munich, followed by a bus ride to Innsbruck. The passengers on the return flight EW8761 were also affected. On January 27th
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