Austrian Airlines (AUA) chiefs and works committee officials are fighting for a consensual solution regarding the planned austerity measures. Lufthansa, which owns AUA since 2009, wants the Viennese aviation company to achieve savings of 220 million Euros this year following last year’s losses of almost 60 million Euros. The AUA supervisory board decided last week […]
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A controversial lobbyist raked in hundreds of thousands of Euros by getting Federal Railways (ÖBB) to buy the trademark rights for a registered name from him, an opposition politician has claimed. Peter Pilz, a member of the federal parliament (MP) of the Green Party, announced yesterday (Tues) he obtained a firm-internal audit report exposing the […]
AUA ‘to jack up cancellation fees’
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Austrian Airlines (AUA) is set to introduce higher cancellation fees, Austrian business newspapers report today (Weds). Viennese dailies write that the economically challenged airline will ask costumers wanting to cancel or change their bookings for flights within Europe for 60 instead of 50 Euros as of 1 August. Reports also have it that changes regarding […]
A380 to be named Vienna
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A new jumbo jet operated by one of the biggest airlines in the world will be named after the Austrian capital, it has been revealed. Lufthansa confirmed today (Fri) that one of its Airbus A380 planes will be baptised “Wien,” which is German for Vienna. The German aviation giant – which ordered 15 of the […]
Austrias middle class will impoverish if the countrys leaders fail to make any progress in reforming its bureaucratic, healthcare and pensions system, an opposition party chief has claimed.Josef Bucher, who heads the right-wing Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), told the Die Presse newspaper today (Fri): “If we keep carrying on this way, it […]
AUA seats up for grabs
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Plane seats put on sale by Austrian Airlines (AUA) are selling like hot cakes, it has emerged.The company said today (Tues) that they have already sold 85 per cent of the 4,200 fabric-covered seats, which are currently being replaced by modern leathern models, to other airlines.AUA, which was taken over by Germanys Lufthansa one and […]
Thousands ogle A380 in Vienna and Linz
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Thousands of aviation enthusiasts turned up in Vienna and Linz to get a glimpse of the new Airbus A380 yesterday (Weds).The worlds biggest passenger aircraft landed at Vienna International Airport (VIA) and Linz Airport as part of a Europe-wide test flights session.Around 1,500 airplane fans came to VIA to watch the double-decker plane which […]