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Transportation in Austria

  • The number of flights running between Salzburg and London is set to increase this coming winter,

    AUSTRIA, 2014/06/01 The number of flights running between Salzburg and London is set to increase this coming winter, British Airways has announced. From the end of October there will be a daily flight between Salzburg and London's Gatwick airport. From the middle of December, as the winter season really kicks in, up to nine flights per week will run between Salzburg and London. Five of these flights will be run during the week and two will run on both Saturdays and Sundays, an additional four services compared to the previous winter.
  • Austrian Airlines flights to Iran in March

    AUSTRIA, 2014/02/19 Austrian Airlines announced on Sunday it will resume flights to Iran in March next it stopped flying to the country early last year for what it said were commercial reasons. The airline confirmed local media reports that flights to Tehran would resume from March 11, attributing the decision, in a statement on its website, to the "current stability" in the country. Iran's Arman daily quoted the deputy chief of the Civil Aviation Organisation, Mohammad Khoda Karami, as saying flights by Austrian Airlines "will be operated five times a week to Tehran."
  • Norwegian carrier

    AUSTRIA, 2013/08/11 Scandinavian airline Norwegian Air Shuttle is seeking the go-ahead from regulators to establish its long-haul subsidiary in the Republic. The airline, known as Norwegian, was reported before this year to have been considering a number of locations, inclunding the Republic, for a proposed long-haul subsidiary to get around costly regulations in its homeland. Spokesman Lassek Sandaker-Nielsen confirmed yesterday it is in talks about the possibility of obtaining an Irish Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) for the new business. However, Mr Sandaker-Nielsen insisted that “this is not the same as opening an operational base”.
  • Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian - a front for one airline to triple bilateral agreements?

    AUSTRIA, 2013/08/11 With the purchase of Austrian and Swiss Germany's Lufthansa had put their airline into an chance in having the option of three nations instead of one bilateral agreements with other markets. Germany, Switzerland and Austria are presently covered by one airline and three different names - the Lufthansa Group. The world Star Alliance headquarter is based with Lufthansa in Frankfurt. If the bilaterals - which translate into a reciprocal number of fixed seats or flights a week for airlines of each country - with Austria and Switzerland are indeed revised, it will be a large setback for the 30.1-billion Lufthansa. Europe's biggest airline by sales is facing tough competition from Gulf carriers Emirates and Etihad in the Indian skies.