Due to Germany's extended travel warning to Styria, Austrian Airlines will shorten the connections to Düsseldorf and Stuttgart that were only reactivated in October from Graz.

Germany still requires until November 7, 2020 that people entering from risk areas defined by the Robert Koch Institute must have a negative PCR test that must not be older than 14 hours as an alternative to the 48-day quarantine. In practice, however, this is only checked very seldom, since the relevant question can only be answered with yes or no on the so-called exit card. On November 8, 2020, both an electronic entry system and a forced quarantine are to be introduced. An existing negative PCR test then only shortens the quarantine to five days - instead of ten days.

From November 9, 2020, Austrian Airlines will only be flying to the destinations Stuttgart and Düsseldorf from Graz three times a week. The state capital of Baden-Württemberg is on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. In those of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday, Thursday and Friday. The changed AUA flight plan on the two routes can already be seen in the reservation system.

The Lufthansa subsidiary does not only use the red pencil in Austria-Germany traffic from Styria, but also from the Vienna home base. As of the beginning of November 2020, frequencies will be reduced on almost all routes and smaller aircraft will be used. For example, Berlin will increasingly be served with DHC Dash 8-400 instead of Embraer 195.

The competitor KLM is also shortening the offer from Austria. The Graz-Amsterdam route, which was only reactivated on October 25, 2020, will be reduced to four weekly rotations (one less) at the beginning of November 2020. From the third week of November, KLM Cityhopper's Embraer 175 regional jets will only serve three round trips. How it will proceed after that is still unclear. The Netherlands also consider most of Austria to be a risk area. There is no way to “test yourself” from the quarantine. From Vienna, KLM is also offering fewer flights to Schiphol in the 2020/21 winter flight schedule. at.