A confectioner has received murder threats for offering cakes showing banned Nazi propaganda symbols and slogans.The Austrian Mauthausen Committee (MKÖ) a Holocaust awareness group informed police and prosecutors about Manfred Klaschkas controversial business activities earlier this week. The MKÖ was tipped off by horrified customers of the confectioner. A catalogue of previously created […]
Tickets for flights from Leeds to Salzburg are now on sale, Jet2.com has announced.The British budget carrier said seats for its service between Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) in West Yorkshire, Great Britain, to Salzburg Airport (SZG) in the heart of the Salzburg Alps can be booked on its homepage as of now. The airline, […]
A Croat wanted internationally by police in Austria was arrested in Romania, it has emerged.The Romanian Times reports today (Mon) that the 34-year-old was caught by police in the southern county of Ilfov.Austrian authorities had issued an international arrest warrant for serious fraud and secret data theft on the man.The suspects Austria-based companies accrued hundreds […]
Bank Austria (BA) bosses have revealed plans to introduce a service based on the functions of mobile phones of the latest generation.BA private customer’s head of agendas Rainer Hauser said today (Tues) customers will be able to use the programme called SmartBanking with their smartphones over the internet, but also via post and fax.The model […]
An investment consultant has been sentenced to prison for gambling away more than 400,000 Euros of customers money.Judges in Graz, Styria, heard yesterday (Weds) how the 36-year-old man promised high interest rates to his clients in order to compensate his rising gambling debts.The accused who has been addicted to sports wagering for years […]
The chief manager of a train service connecting Vienna International Airport (VIA) and the capitals city centre in just 16 minutes has apologised after customers were forced to wait in the cold.People using the City Airport Train (CAT) to get from Viennas Landstraße station to the airport complained about the terminal being unheated for several […]
Foodstuff branch representatives and many customers feel infuriated by a new law ordering shoppers to identify themselves if they plan to buy more than 10 litres of wine.The federal finance ministry, which is headed by Peoples Party (ÖVP) chairman Josef Pröll, decided that supermarket customers must fill in a form if they purchase more than […]
A 51-year-old tank lorry driver sustained serious injuries when he crashed against a church wall around midday today (Tues).The man was hospitalised in Horn after the incident in Untermarkersdorf in Lower Austrias Hollabrunn district. Police, who plan to question the driver as soon as he recovers, are currently trying to find out whether a technical […]
Police in Vienna are investigating after a popular city centre department store was evacuated due to a bomb warning yesterday afternoon (Weds).Around 700 shoppers and staff were asked to leave the nine-storey Steffl store after a male voice warned its managers office of a bomb in the building in a phone call around 5pm.Police, who […]
Air Berlin managed to raise its passenger figures despite the ash cloud and chaotic weather conditions last year.The company, which cooperates with Austrian FlyNiki, said today (Tues) it had 33.6 million customers in 2010, 3.8 per cent more than in the previous year. Air Berlin explained FlyNikis passenger numbers were considered in its annual business […]