Austrian airline carrier AUA has admitted that between January and June the number of passengers fell by 3% to 5.3 million. In June it was 0.8% less than the same period the year before. Although it is a reduction Austrian Airlines is not alone in seeing a reduction in the number of passenger numbers which […]
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines (AUA) has plans to expand once the current savings have come into effect. But according to AUA-managing director Karsten Benz they said they would be looking to add new destinations and new partners. He is also keen to have longer destinations, And he said that an additional 10 long-distance routes would […]
The new extended route along the Wienfluss that stretches from Auhof at the border of the Vienna Woods through to Kennedy Brücke in Hietzing has become a popular keep fit destination for cyclists, skaters and walkers. At Hietzing the route picks up the existing cycle path right into the centre of town. The initiative sponsored […]
Constitutional authorities are under pressure to act after it emerged that the names of dozens of hiking paths implied links to the neo-Nazi mindset.Austrian hiking and climbing platform Bergsteigen.at revealed popular paths across the country had names like “Riefenstahl” or “Swastikaar”. While the former term clearly seems to refer to Third Reich filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, […]
Experts have warned of the “worst traffic weekend this summer”.Officials of ÖAMTC and Arbö Austrias leading motorists associations said today (Mon) record-breaking jams were expected to occur on several key travel routes across Austria as summer holidays start in the German provinces of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.Helmut Beigl of ÖAMTC said: “There was a […]