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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Contrary to previous announcements, the airline Lauda Europe will operate 12 Airbus A320 aircraft from Vienna-Schwechat for its sister company Ryanair DAC during this year's peak season. Company boss David O'Brien originally assumed that the presence in Vienna would be significantly smaller due to a lack of demand and high airport fees. David O'Brien
Two weeks of summer vacation in Greece, flights conveniently booked online from home – this is the form of vacation planning that many people use these days. But sometimes online, it is concealed who the actual contractual partner is in the case of a booking. “Some online brokers use the so-called screen scraping or crawling technique: In this, a
The United States is reconsidering the travel warning for some destinations, including Austria and Germany. The government is thus creating a rapprochement, but this does not change the strict entry rules. In the USA, a four-stage warning system applies, so far travel to the European Schengen area, Great Britain, Ireland, India, China, Brazil,
Airline Assistance Switzerland, the ground handling company operating at Vienna Airport, has decided not to cut 106 jobs. The company reported this number of employees to the early warning system of the Public Employment Service on May 12, 2021. The new short-time work now means that AAS will not implement the job cuts. “The extension of short-time work gives
The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) took Lufthansa AG to the Supreme Court because of questionable clauses in the conditions of carriage – and won the majority of the case. The ruling is legally binding. One of the clauses objected to by the VKI stipulated an obligation to pay additional fees if customers did not use all sections of their flight or did not use the
With increasing vaccination rates and relaxed entry regulations in many European countries, Austrians are once again keen to travel. The longing to finally put their feet in the sand again is noticeably great. This was already evident on the long weekend of Corpus Christi, which many passengers used for a short vacation in the south. Greece,
The Upper Austrian airport Linz-Hörsching is starting the summer season with a newly designed passenger terminal. The airport used the long break to push ahead with the revitalization of the interior. "In contrast to the freight business, which is currently booming, we had to endure a long dry spell in passenger traffic. The first passenger planes will take off again in Linz in mid-June.
The Salzburg comeback of the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air will be even smaller than previously announced. Only the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna will be offered in summer 2021. The start of flights is scheduled for June 13, 2021. A few days ago, a report by Aviation Direct revealed that the announced connection to St.
It was particularly quiet at Salzburg Airport for a few months because many routes were suspended due to the corona pandemic. There were even no scheduled flights at all from Austria's second largest airport. Eurowings Europe is now ramping up its holiday program. "With a lot of anticipation in our luggage and relief that the travel restrictions have largely been lifted
According to a survey conducted by Unique Research on behalf of the news magazine Profil, only about eight percent of Austrians believe that the corona pandemic will be ended by vaccinations. At least 14 percent expect that new mutations will lead to lockdowns again, for example in autumn 2021. 71 percent
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