Austrian airports saw a 1% drop in visitors last year when compared to 2012, with smaller airports in particular struggling to keep up passenger numbers. Linz Blue Danube Airport showed the weakest figures, seeing the second significant drop in two years, with passenger numbers falling by 11.8%. Between 2011 and 2012, they had dropped off […]
Train passengers in Austria would like more connections throughout Austria, a train ticket which covers the whole country as well as train plans which connect the whole country. This is the result of a study by the Austrian Traffic Club. Older passengers were more positive about the Austrian train service than others. Those under thirty […]
The 15-minute parking ticket will replace the 10-minute parking ticket in autumn. The only alternative is to buy your parking ticket with your phone. A parking clock does not protect you from a fine. The coalition of SPÖ and the Green Party in Vienna has decided to introduce a new free 15-minute parking ticket. It […]
Wiener Linien is the company that runs the largest part of the transit network of Vienna. They have never had more customers since they introduced the annual ticket for 365 Euros. A traffic expert has now suggested a new tariff system. 907 million passengers used the transit network last year. 32 million of additional passengers […]
Vienna’s International Christian School will hold a seminar in support of the UNESCO International Day of Tolerance on 15 November. The seminar will address the topic “Engaging the Cross-Cultural Generation” and be led by cross-culturalist and rhetorician Michael Gates, who has worked with top-tier institutions worldwide including Nokia, Microsoft and the Austrian Office of the […]
Vienna has notched up the hottest April on record and in the inner city on Saturday temperatures reached 29.4°C. The hot weather lured many people outside but anybody hoping for a dip in the capital would be disappointed – as regardless of the weather the city always keeps the pools closed until second of May. […]
Austrian Minister for Families Reinhold Mitterlehner has organised a special family ticket for the “Long Night of the Family” on 6 May that allows entry to things connected to the Habsburgs. From Schloss Schönbrunn or the world’s oldest zoo, through to Schloss Hof – the ticket allows all the attractions to be visited with a […]
A one-year-old boy who was taken from his mother over an unpaid fine has finally been allowed to go home. Austrian social workers removed the baby from his teenage mother’s care because the toddler’s grandmother had not paid a speeding ticket. The court in Lambach decided on Thursday that the young J. L. should go […]
Public transport users in Vienna are infuriated as several ticket machines have failed to accept their bank cards. Using bank cards to pay for tickets is currently impossible at an undisclosed number of machines at stations across the city, public transport agency Wiener Linien confirmed yesterday (Tues). The company explained that the error had to […]
Event: Friday 17 June – Sunday 19 June 2011 09.00 – 18.00 Venue: Wiener Stadthalle, Halle D. Everything you could ever want to know about babies and how to look after them is on offer from 17 June until Sunday 19 June in Vienna when the Baby Expo, “Austria’s fair for the young family”, comes […]