With Porto, Marseille, Billund, Tivat, Palermo, Vilnius and Tromsø, Austrian Airlines will be offering a total of seven additional destinations from Vienna-Schwechat in the 2023 summer timetable. The entire program consists of around 1.250 weekly flights to 120 destinations.

The destinations Porto, Marseille, Billund and Tivat are completely new to the programme. The four destinations are each served up to three times a week from Vienna. Previously served seasonally, Palermo has also been included in the scheduled summer flight schedule. In addition, the connection to Vilnius, which was already part of the AUA route network before the corona pandemic, will be offered again. Both the Italian city on the north coast of Sicily and the capital of Lithuania, like the four other newcomers, will be served three times a week. Furthermore, Tromsø is served once a week in summer between June and August.

In addition to a total of 43 destinations and almost 300 weekly flights to the Mediterranean, long-haul routes will of course also have a lot to ask for next summer. For example, Los Angeles is again offered in the Austrian route plan with non-stop flights from Vienna.

“The growth of four new A320neo is visible in the summer timetable. More planes mean more destinations. The Austrian team has proven that we are ready to fly, so in 2023 we are going into the race with ambition,” says Austrian Airlines CCO Michael Trestl. “We took advantage of the crisis and positioned ourselves competitively. With all determination, we will significantly expand our point-to-point traffic in summer 2023 and thus once again underpin our position as the clear number 1 in Austria. We are the most charming and trustworthy travel companion and continue on our way to connect Austria with the most beautiful places in Europe and the whole world in the best possible way. And in the Austrian way - namely socially acceptable, as well as ecologically and economically sensible.

There are no night stops in Klagenfurt and Innsbruck

However, there are also changes within Austria. From Innsbruck there will be no more night stops in the future, which has a negative effect on the hub connection. The same also applies to Klagenfurt. In Graz, on the other hand, you do without only during the summer holidays 2023 on the night stops.

A spokeswoman told Aviation.Direct: “The night stops are primarily intended to serve business travel from the federal states in the direction of Vienna, which, however, has not yet fully recovered in demand last summer and is also currently the case. Therefore, for reasons of efficiency, the night stops will be removed from the system in the 2023 summer timetable and capacities will instead be allocated to other flight times or connections so that there is no overall reduction in the flight program offered on the Klagenfurt, Innsbruck and Graz routes".

AUA starts discount campaign

After a successful summer 2022 and the resulting good liquidity development as well as the granting of a credit line by the Lufthansa Group, an early and full repayment of the state-secured loan granted in 2020 is possible. For this reason, Austrian Airlines is offering a discount campaign.

"Without the support of Austria we would not have been able to fly through this difficult time. Now it's time to say thank you. That's why we're offering tickets with a discount of up to 30 percent for a total of 25 destinations, including new summer timetable destinations," says Austrian Airlines CCO Michael Trestl. The promotion applies to all new bookings on the Economy Light fare by November 20th and for a travel period from November 7th to June 30th, 2023.