The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is planning its most extensive summer flight schedule to date from Vienna for the upcoming summer, with 15 new flight connections. The carrier thus serves a total of 91 routes from Vienna-Schwechat Airport.
The new destinations are Amman, Banja Luka, Bremen, Genoa, Kosice, Lamezia, Lappeenranta, Manchester, Perugia, Pula, Rimini, Stockholm, Venice, Saragossa and Sibiu. With 19 aircraft stationed - and thus five additional - the airline's total investment in Vienna now amounts to over two billion euros, the carrier said in a press release. New staff will also be hired for the planned fleet expansion; the budget airline is looking for a total of 50 new flight attendants. Ryanair also takes the opportunity to fire at its competitors: "Ryanair continues to grow in Vienna, while Easyjet and Level have ceased operations and Austrian Airlines and Wizz Air have reduced their capacities, fleets and routes." In fact, Wizz Air has just a few days ago many destinations have been removed from the planned summer flight schedule and thus significantly reduced the presence in VIE.
"As Austria's fastest growing airline, Ryanair is delighted to announce its most extensive Vienna flight schedule to date, with a total of 91 destinations. We are achieving this growth without any state aid, while AUA, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, has received 300 million euros in financial injections from Austrian taxpayers, but in return has reduced its fleet by 20 percent, cut 1.200 jobs and achieved a 66 percent drop in traffic in the fourth quarter," said Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary.
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