Austrian Airlines
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Austrian Airlines (Österreichische Luftverkehrs AG) is the international airline of Austria, with its headquarters in Vienna. Its main base is Vienna International Airport (VIE). It dominates the market for flights to Central- and Eastern Europe.
History
The airline was founded on September 30, 1957, making its maiden flight on March 18 1958 when a Vickers Viscount 779 took off from Vienna for London, England. Austrian Airlines was formed through the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways. The airline's transatlantic services began on 1 April 1969 with a Vienna to Brussels and New York service in co-operation with Sabena.
Austrian Airbus A320 in the current colours
Austrian Airlines is owned by ÖIAG (39.7%), floating stock (43.5%), Austrian institutional investors (10.3%) and Air France (1.5%). It also wholly owns subsidiary airlines, Austrian Arrows and Lauda Air and has a 62% share in Slovak Airlines. On October 1st, 2004, the Flight Operations Departments of Austrian and Lauda Air were merged into a single unit, leaving Lauda Air as a brand name only for charter flights. It had 5,163 employees at January 2005.
Destinations
In 2006 Austrian dominates the market for flights from/to Central- and Eastern Europe.See full article: Austrian Airlines destinations.
The airline is in discussion with United Airlines for a code-share operation on Vienna-Chicago. Austrian's longest routes are from Vienna to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, via Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, respectively.
New Routes
It will increase the frequency of flights Vienna-Moscow by adding a third flight Mondays through Thursdays departing Vienna in the morning and operated with an Airbus 319. It will resume nonstop service Vienna-Beirut on June 2006. It will operate 3 flights a week departing Vienna on Wed/Fri/Sunday and Beirut on Mon/Thu/Saturday using an Airbus 320.New long-haul business class
Between July 2006 and May 2007, Austrian will be replacing the “Austrian Business Class” service on their Boeing long-haul fleet on a step-by-step basis. The long-haul Airbus fleet will get the new seats after the Boeing business class seats have been refitted.[Guided tour through the new business class]
Fleet
As of April 2006 the Austrian Airlines fleet (including Lauda Air) was:
- 7 Airbus A319-100 (Austrian livery)
- 8 Airbus A320-200 (6 in Austrian livery, 2 in Lauda Air livery)
- 3 Airbus A321-100 (Austrian livery)
- 3 Airbus A321-200 (Austrian livery)
- 4 Airbus A330-200 (Austrian livery
- 2 Airbus A340-200 (Austrian livery)
- 2 Airbus A340-300 (Austrian livery)
- 1 Boeing 737-600 (Lauda Air livery)
- 2 Boeing 737-700 (Lauda Air livery)
- 6 Boeing 737-800 (Lauda Air livery)
- 6 Boeing 767-300 (Austrian livery)
- 3 Boeing 777-200 (Austrian livery) (+1 on order)
- 3 Fokker 70 (Austrian livery)
Incidents and accidents
On September 26, 1960 a Vickers Viscount 837 crashed while attempting to land at Moscow. Thirty-one of the thirty-seven people on board died.On January 5, 2004, an Austrian Airlines Fokker 70 was forced to make an emergency landing on a field outside Munich International Airport. There were three minor injuries.
Events
It operated a "Life Ball 2006" flight New York JFK-Vienna which arrived May 2006 bringing 120 VIP passengers to the Life Ball. On board were international stars like singer Anastacia, Kool & the Gang, design duo Heatherette and Lady Kier. Models such as Cordula Reyer, Maggie Rizer, Liya Kebede, Tyson Ballou also arrived. For this flight Austrian Airlines created a specially branded Airbus A330 (OE-LAP) with the Life Ball logo and the logo of the main sponsor MINI. It will be flying for one month with the special branding not only to New York, but also to Toronto, Shanghai, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.External links
- [Austrian]
- [Austrian Fleet Detail]
- [Austrian Passenger Opinions]
- [Austrian Airlines Group]
- [Austrian Cargo]
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