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| Brief information | |
| IATA code | OS |
|---|---|
| Seat | Vienna, Austria |
| Passenger volume | 10.8 million (2015) |
| aims | National and international |
| alliance | Star Alliance |
| Internet | www.austrian.com |
history
Austrian Airlines was founded in Vienna in 1957 as a state-owned Austrian airline, and it was there that the maiden flight via Zurich to London started in 1958. The Vickers Viscount aircraft and other turboprop aircraft were used for many years, until they were completely replaced by jet planes in the early 1970s. In 1994 a participation in the Tyrolean Airways, which in 1998 led to the complete takeover of the airline, in 1997 the participation in the Lauda Air with takeover in 2002. Lauda Air specializes in holiday and charter flights and is now in Austrian myHolidays has been renamed. In 2001 the Rhine valley flight taken over and merged with Tyrolean. Austrian was first a member of the aviation alliance Qualiflyer Groupbefore becoming a member of the Star Alliance has been. As a core market, the airline focused on connections to Central and Eastern Europe. The takeovers weighed heavily on the result and several attempts to save money followed, in which employees were laid off and routes discontinued. In 2008 privatization took place and the following year the German took over Lufthansa the Austrian. On July 1, 2012, the flight operations of the Austrian Airlines Group were completely transferred to the subsidiary Tyrolean Airways Tiroler Luftfahrt GmbH for financial reasons, and in 2015 Tyrolean became the new Austrian Airlines
fleet
The average age of the Austrian Airlines fleet is 15.1 years (as of January 2017).
- Long haul: 6 Boeing 767s and 5 Boeing 777s
- Medium haul: 7 Airbus 319, 18 Airbus 320 and 6 Airbus 321
- Short haul: 3 Fokker 70s, 6 Fokker 100s, 18 Bombardier Dash 8Q-400s and 11 Embraer 195s
Alliances
The airline has been a member of the aviation alliance since 2000 Star Alliance and as the daughter of Lufthansa included in their flight plan.
Route network and hubs
Long haul
The hub of the airline and the start of long-haul flights is the Airport Wien-Schwechat. Goals include daily Bangkok and Cape Town (-2 --- 6- only winter).
Since April 19 new flights to Montreal, Summer daily, winter 5 times a week.
Austrian has a route focus on secondary destinations in Eastern Europe (Balkans, CIS), where Austrian was one of the first Western European airlines to connect such countries to Western Europe via Vienna. The emergence of low-cost airlines in Eastern Europe has hit Austrian hard.
Within the Star Alliance routes, additional flight destinations for AUA passengers are available via codeshare.
Classes of carriage
Business & Economy
Lounges
Several lounges on Vienna Airport.
Frequent flyer program
Miles & More is used by Lufthansa as a frequent flyer program.
Check in
There is the option of checking-in the day before at the airport or web check-in austrian.com and of course the normal check-in at the airport. An app will also be offered with which check-in is possible.
Booking options
On austrian.com, in many Austrian travel agencies as well as on the websites of external providers.
