Many experts suspected that the demand for plane tickets will be underground this year. The AUA headquarters are pleasantly surprised that the flights that will be started from June 15, 2020 are very well booked.

European airlines are currently looking at their current booking situation with great excitement, because the planned restarts are also dependent on demand. At Austrian Airlines, capacity utilization should be quite good from June 15, 2020, according to the company. Although only 37 destinations will be served in the second half of June with a capacity that is 95 percent below the previous year's figure, the offer seems to be being accepted by the market.

Group spokesman Peter Thier put the current occupancy rate for the flights offered in the last two weeks of June at 50 percent. This would be "surprisingly good". The wording also indicates that Austrian Airlines had expected lower demand, but that the market is apparently much more willing to travel than “feared”.

The Lufthansa subsidiary will gradually raise questions about air traffic and gradually add more destinations. The company plans to announce additional goals this week, which will celebrate their “comeback” in early / mid-July. The strategists at AUA headquarters are therefore also very excited about the “timetable” with regard to the travel easing, which the federal government will shortly be presenting to the public. In any case, Austrian Airlines will gradually and cautiously resume flight operations in line with demand and travel easing.