Austrian national team star Paul Scharner is to get a new manager at his club.West Bromwich Albion bosses announced today (Fri) that former Fulham FC and Liverpool coach Roy Hodgson will take over from Roberto di Matteo who was sacked after the teams 0-3 defeat against Manchester City last Saturday.Hodgson and Liverpool parted company last […]
Austrian low-cost carrier FlyNiki is considering a cooperation with Emirates, it has emerged.Asked to comment on reports in the Austrian media that his airline wants to team up with the Dubai-based aviation giant, FlyNiki CEO Niki Lauda said today (Thurs): “Im open towards all sides and options including Emirates.”Business newspapers have it that the […]
Graz Airport bosses blamed the ash cloud-enforced cancellations for failing to break the one million passenger hurdle last year.CEO Gerhard Widmann announced today (Tues) that the airport, which is located around 10 kilometres outside the city centre of Graz, recorded 990,118 passengers in 2010, 4.4 per cent more than in the previous year.But Widmann pointed […]
FlyNiki stakeholder Air Berlin registered more than 30 million passengers in the first 11 months of this year.The German airline announced today (Thurs) that it recorded 31.3 million customers between January and November of this year. The Berlin-based firm had 27.9 million passengers in 2009.Air Berlin also said it managed to increase its turnover by […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA) has raised its passenger figures prediction for this year as numbers continue to climb.VIA said today (Thurs) it registered 1.83 million passengers last month, up by 11.4 per cent compared to October 2009. The airport, which recorded a 13.8 per cent year on year increase in customers back in September, explained […]
Bosses at Klagenfurt Airport were relieved to hear the announcement that Air Berlin is launching a connection to one of Germanys biggest airports today (Thurs), while the public debate about a planned tax on flight tickets intensifies.The German low cost carrier, which cooperates with Vienna-based FlyNiki, started operating between the airport in the provincial capital […]
Lufthansa has said it expects its subsidiary Austrian Airlines (AUA) to be in the black in 2011.The German aviation giant acquired a major interest in the Vienna-based company last year. AUA has carried out a strict cost-cutting programme during the past few months. It said the plan was to reduce its overall staff number of […]
Ryanair announced today (Weds) it will stop operating flights between Frankfurt and Klagenfurt from next March.The Irish no frills airline explained its decision to axe the route connecting the German city and the Carinthian capital as a reaction to the German governments decision to levy a tax of eight Euros on tickets for flights from […]
FlyNiki CEO Niki Lauda has claimed the new ticket levy could decrease his firms annual turnover by 10 million Euros.The businessman, who founded airline FlyNiki in 2003, said today (Tues): “I expected FlyNiki to have four million passengers this year. The tax might reduce our customer number by 100,000. This would mean 10 million Euros […]
Airlines have vowed to pass extra costs on to customers after the governments announcement to set up a tax on tickets.The federal coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and Peoples Party (ÖVP) announced on the weekend it will charge every ticket for a flight from Austria to another European country with eight Euros from next year. […]