The Austrian airline Eurowings Europe has stationed a second Airbus jet at Salzburg Airport since Thursday. The fire brigade greeted the machine with the usual water fountain.

Airport manager Bettina Ganghofer describes today as a particularly pleasant day for the airport and the region. The transfer flight from Palma de Mallorca landed in Salzburg at 14 p.m.

“Today is a ray of hope after the worst aviation crisis of the last decades. Today, Eurowings is once again committed to the strategic partnership with the airport and to the future of Salzburg as an aviation location. Eurowings was always by our side, never left us even during the crisis, was always the last carrier to stop flying and was always the first airline partner to return to Salzburg with flight connections. With the stationing of the second Airbus, Eurowings has today fulfilled a promise made before the crisis - a clear commitment to its Austrian base in Salzburg, ”said Ganghofer.

Palma and Heraklion are increased

Due to high demand, Eurowings Europe will increase the routes to Palma de Mallorca and Heraklion. The other routes to Greece, Italy and Spain are also showing strong booking figures. In the next few weeks, the city connections that are so important for Salzburg's economy, such as Düsseldorf (from June 20, WED, FRI and SUN) and Hamburg (from July 1, THU, SUN), will be back. From June 28, the HUB connection to Frankfurt will be running again and with the beginning of the festival, “double-daily flights”, i.e. two daily flights on the edge of the day, will be planned - Berlin and Cologne will follow in September.

“Salzburg is an important link in our pan-European route network. We are very pleased to be stationing the second Airbus in Salzburg today. After the popular Eurowings holiday flights, the city connections are now also coming back, ”says Robert Jahn, Managing Director of Eurowings Europe. “We are not only strengthening our existing European network, such as here on our Austria base in Salzburg, we are also expanding significantly at other locations: We announced the opening of our new base in Prague just a few days ago. We will be stationing two Airbus A320s there from October, and next summer even three aircraft for Eurowings will take off from Prague ”.