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{{Infobox_Airline |airline=Austrian Airlines|logo=Austrian-logo.png|logo_size=300px|IATA=OS|ICAO=AUA|callsign=AUSTRIAN|parent=Austrian Airlines Group|founded=1958|headquarters= Vienna, Austria), Thomas Kleibl ([CFO)]|focus_cities=Vienna Airportlounge=Senator Lounge|alliance=[Star Alliance of [Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport. In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers.

History The airline was founded on 30 September 1957, making its maiden flight on 18 March 1958 when a Vickers Viscount took off from Vienna for London, England via Zurich. Austrian Airlines was formed through the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways. It launched domestic services on 1 May 1963. 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 became a member of the Star Alliance in 2000. That year, Austrian acquired Lauda Air, an airline whose operations included long haul flights, and acquired Rheintalflug on 15 February 2001. Its name was shortened to Austrian in September 2003 when it rebranded its three constituent carriers. On 1 October 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.

Austrian Airlines is owned by Österreichische Industrieholding AG (39.8%), floating stock (48.0%), Austrian institutional investors (10.2%) and Austrian Airlines (2%). It also wholly owns subsidiary airlines, Austrian Arrows and Lauda Air, and has a 22.5% share in Ukraine International Airlines. It has 8,468 employees

image:austrian.fokker70.750pix.jpg (superseded colour scheme) landing

Destinations In 2006, in a move to save about U.S.$51 million per year, Austrian decided to eliminate its A330 and A340 fleet, which consisted of 4 and 2 aircraft, respectively. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2006-11-02-austria-a330_x.htm As a result in having less long haul capacity, Austrian suspended some of its long-haul flights to Asia and Australia. Flights to Shanghai ended in January 2007 while flights to Phuket City, Mauritius and Colombo and Malé ended in April 2007 and those to Kathmandu ended in May 2007. Airliner World January 2007.

March 2007 also saw the termination of the airlines longest flights, the Vienna-Singapore-Melbourne and Vienna-Kuala Lumpur-Sydney routes, ending operations on the Kangaroo Route. This was Melbourne's last European-based airline connecting the city with direct flights to Europe.

Austrian was one of the few airlineshttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1606880,00.html?iid=chix-sphere to fly into post-war Iraq when it began flights to Erbil http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2006/11/14/etnewsiraq.xml when it started flights in December, 2006.http://news.oneindia.in/2006/12/12/austrian-airlines-starts-scheduled-flights-to-iraq-1165936209.html However, the flights were discontinued the following year.

New routes It has increased the frequency of flights Vienna-Moscow by adding a third flight Mondays through Thursdays departing Vienna in the morning and operated with an Airbus A320#A319. Since December 11, 2006, Austrian flies scheduled operations to Arbil in Iraq twice a week using an Airbus A319. It is the first European airline to launch scheduled services to Iraq. A new flight from Vienna to Amritsar in India will start in 2007.

preparing to leave Sydney Airport

New long-haul business class In 2007 Austrian will be replacing the “Austrian Business Class” service on its Boeing long-haul fleet on a step-by-step basis. Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft will not be fitted with the new business class, as they are being phased out of the long-haul fleet.

Special security The armed monitoring of Austrian flights by EKO Cobra (police anti-terrorist-squad of Austrian Federal Ministry of interior) began in 1981. During each accompanied flight at least two armed air marshals are onboard undercover.

Fleet The Austrian Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of September 2007:{]|7|Short and Medium haul||-|Airbus A320#A320-214 series|6|Short and Medium haul||-|Airbus A321#A321-111 series|6|Short and Medium haul||-|Boeing 767#767-300ER|6|Long haul
Canada, China, India, United States||-|Boeing 777#777-200|4|Long haul
Japan, United States, Thailand||-!Total|align=center|29
(0 orders)|Updated October 2007|}

Incidents and accidents

External links

References

{{Infobox_Airline |airline=Austrian Airlines|logo=Austrian-logo.png|logo_size=300px|IATA=OS|ICAO=AUA|callsign=AUSTRIAN|parent=Austrian Airlines Group|founded=1958|headquarters= Vienna, Austria), Thomas Kleibl ([CFO)]|focus_cities=Vienna Airportlounge=Senator Lounge|alliance=[Star Alliance of [Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport. In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers.

History The airline was founded on 30 September 1957, making its maiden flight on 18 March 1958 when a Vickers Viscount took off from Vienna for London, England via Zurich. Austrian Airlines was formed through the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways. It launched domestic services on 1 May 1963. 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 became a member of the Star Alliance in 2000. That year, Austrian acquired Lauda Air, an airline whose operations included long haul flights, and acquired Rheintalflug on 15 February 2001. Its name was shortened to Austrian in September 2003 when it rebranded its three constituent carriers. On 1 October 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.

Austrian Airlines is owned by Österreichische Industrieholding AG (39.8%), floating stock (48.0%), Austrian institutional investors (10.2%) and Austrian Airlines (2%). It also wholly owns subsidiary airlines, Austrian Arrows and Lauda Air, and has a 22.5% share in Ukraine International Airlines. It has 8,468 employees

image:austrian.fokker70.750pix.jpg (superseded colour scheme) landing

Destinations In 2006, in a move to save about U.S.$51 million per year, Austrian decided to eliminate its A330 and A340 fleet, which consisted of 4 and 2 aircraft, respectively. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2006-11-02-austria-a330_x.htm As a result in having less long haul capacity, Austrian suspended some of its long-haul flights to Asia and Australia. Flights to Shanghai ended in January 2007 while flights to Phuket City, Mauritius and Colombo and Malé ended in April 2007 and those to Kathmandu ended in May 2007. Airliner World January 2007.

March 2007 also saw the termination of the airlines longest flights, the Vienna-Singapore-Melbourne and Vienna-Kuala Lumpur-Sydney routes, ending operations on the Kangaroo Route. This was Melbourne's last European-based airline connecting the city with direct flights to Europe.

Austrian was one of the few airlineshttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1606880,00.html?iid=chix-sphere to fly into post-war Iraq when it began flights to Erbil http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2006/11/14/etnewsiraq.xml when it started flights in December, 2006.http://news.oneindia.in/2006/12/12/austrian-airlines-starts-scheduled-flights-to-iraq-1165936209.html However, the flights were discontinued the following year.

New routes It has increased the frequency of flights Vienna-Moscow by adding a third flight Mondays through Thursdays departing Vienna in the morning and operated with an Airbus A320#A319. Since December 11, 2006, Austrian flies scheduled operations to Arbil in Iraq twice a week using an Airbus A319. It is the first European airline to launch scheduled services to Iraq. A new flight from Vienna to Amritsar in India will start in 2007.

preparing to leave Sydney Airport

New long-haul business class In 2007 Austrian will be replacing the “Austrian Business Class” service on its Boeing long-haul fleet on a step-by-step basis. Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft will not be fitted with the new business class, as they are being phased out of the long-haul fleet.

Special security The armed monitoring of Austrian flights by EKO Cobra (police anti-terrorist-squad of Austrian Federal Ministry of interior) began in 1981. During each accompanied flight at least two armed air marshals are onboard undercover.

Fleet The Austrian Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of September 2007:{]|7|Short and Medium haul||-|Airbus A320#A320-214 series|6|Short and Medium haul||-|Airbus A321#A321-111 series|6|Short and Medium haul||-|Boeing 767#767-300ER|6|Long haul
Canada, China, India, United States||-|Boeing 777#777-200|4|Long haul
Japan, United States, Thailand||-!Total|align=center|29
(0 orders)|Updated October 2007|}

Incidents and accidents

External links

References



 

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