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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In some European countries, airport fees have been reduced in order to support airlines. Austria is taking a different approach and freezing fees. According to Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens), this is intended to prevent them from becoming cheaper. In the Alpine republic, the fees that public transport airports have to charge are set in the so-called
Wizz Air had originally planned to launch a non-stop service between St. Petersburg and Salzburg in September 2020. The service was postponed at regular intervals – most recently to July 2021. Now the first flight has been cancelled again and rescheduled for September 19, 2021. Should Wizz Air launch the route
With the start of the 2021/22 winter flight schedule period, the Ryanair Group intends to reactivate the destinations Agadir, Pisa and Marseille from Vienna-Schwechat. All three destinations were previously offered by the now defunct Laudamotion. The Atlantic city in Morocco was removed from the flight schedule by the then Laudamotion long before the Corona pandemic.
The German government is working on a solution that complies with EU law to oblige airlines to pass on passenger-related taxes and fees to end customers. State Secretary Magnus Brunner believes that “the taxi ride to the airport must not be more expensive than the flight itself.” The airline customer must be served realistic prices, everything else
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
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.
The Association for Consumer Information (VKI) successfully supported a consumer on behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs whose outbound flight on a planned week-long tour of Russia was delayed by 22 hours. In addition, her luggage could not be found for a long time after arriving at the destination airport, which caused the consumer great inconvenience during the rest of the trip.
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
The Slovenian government is rowing back and relaxing its entry regulations for Austria. There are no longer any restrictions for those entering from Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Salzburg, according to a change to the entry regulations that came into force yesterday. Well, a little proof still has to be provided: The border officials must be plausibly shown that
After a long break, Graz Airport is again connected to Frankfurt am Main. Lufthansa has been offering four flights per week again since Monday. The frequency is planned to be increased in July 2021. The connection to the Kranich hub in Frankfurt is currently operated on Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
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