Austrian Airlines and Amadeus have signed a long-term “Full Content” agreement. The contract runs until the end of 2014. As of 1 March 2010, travel agencies worldwide will have guaranteed access to the full range of Austrian Airlines fares and inventory through Amadeus, with no surcharge. The agreement ensures that Austrian Airlines’ schedules, fares, last [...]

Austrian Airlines is extending its cooperation with Star Alliance partner bmi, British Midland International, as bmi incorporates Vienna into its route network as a new destination. Until now, Austrian Airlines has flown the route to and from London four times a day. In future we will operate another service, making a total of five flights. [...]

The work being done to restructure Austrian Airlines is moving forward at speed. The company is now implementing another measure, with the restructuring of the Call Centre and Customer Relations Division. Call Centre activities, which until now have been carried out from two locations in Innsbruck and Vienna, will be concentrated in Innsbruck. This Call [...]

Targeted cost reduction to produce medium-term improvement in result – complete restructuring of company – around 1,000 fulltime-jobs to be cut Having already fulfilled its ambitious package of short-term measures designed to generate savings of EUR 225 million this year, the management of Austrian Airlines is now confronting the challenge of improving the company’s result [...]

The Austrian Airlines Group is continuing to expand its route network into the Middle East: Today, the airline launched a scheduled service to Amman which will operate three times a week from Vienna. The capital of the Kingdom of Jordan is a highly popular destination for tourists and business travellers alike, and flights there will [...]

Following intensive negotiations between Austrian Airlines and Flughafen Wien (Vienna Airport), it proved possible today to decide on concrete solutions designed to improve the competitiveness of Vienna as a business location:

The traffic figures of the Austrian Airlines Group in the first quarter of the year were marked by the highly challenging conditions produced by the wider global economic crisis. In addition to the fact that demand is traditionally weak in the first quarter of the year in the airline sector, the economic downturn meant that [...]