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New Austrian Airlines flight to Shanghai as of April

As of 4 April 2016, Austrian Airlines will fly to Shanghai five times a week, and daily as of 1 May 2016, making Shanghai the second Austrian Airlines destination in China after Beijing. Flight duration from Vienna to more-than-8,500-km-away Shanghai is appr.10:20 hours. Flights are operated with a Boeing 777. Currently, overall 26 weekly non-stop […]

Austrian Airlines builds onto its Winter Schedules

St. Petersburg and Rostov in Russia will no longer be served by Austrian Airlines. In spite of this, the end of October will see 3 new long-haul flights being added to their existing destination portfolio: Miami, Mauritius and Colombo. In addition, November will also see the airline starting a flight schedule to Marrakech. Overall, the […]

SAS flies to Vienna and starts its own loyalty program

SAS resumes flights from Vienna to Copenhagen and says goodbye to their Lufthansa “Partner Plus Benefit” program at the end of the year, this in order to launch their own loyalty program “SAS Credits”. By 24th of March, 2016 the Scandinavian airline starts flying four days a week (Mon / Thu / Fri / Sun) […]

Finnair relying on new A350 aircraft on long-distance routes

Passengers are promised “The next generation of flying” brought to them by the new Airbus A350 that is used by Finnair as the first model operated in Europe. First flights are taking off from Helsinki to Shanghai as of October. As of 14 October, flight passengers can test the new flying experience between Vienna and […]

Qatar Airways flies daily to Sydney as of March

Qatar Airways is expanding its route network into Australia. In addition to the daily non-stop flights to Melbourne and Perth, a daily direct connection between Doha and Sydney will be offered from 1st  of March 2016. The departures in both directions will be scheduled as night flights. From Doha, flights will depart at 20:10h with […]

Changes in the Flyniki route network

As of October, flights from Vienna to Munich, Athens and Tel Aviv will no longer be offered by Flyniki. The direct connection to Munich in particular was heavily used by business travelers, but will no longer be available in the Flyniki route network as of 23 October. Yet there is some good news for the […]

Lufthansa will add new destinations in Africa

Starting with the coming winter schedule, Lufthansa will take up some new destinations in Africa. From Munich there will be a daily connection to Cape Town as of October 25, 2015 and from Frankfurt you will be able to reach Nairobi 4 times per week as of October 27, 2015. As of December 11, 2015 […]

Lufthansa strengthens their flight program to South- and Central America

Panama City, the economic metropolis at the Panama Canal, will be added to the flight program of Lufthansa as of November 2, 2015 with 5 flights per week from Frankfurt. Lufthansa has also expanded their cooperation with Copa Airlines in order to provide easy access to further 50 destinations in Central- und South America – […]

Austrian Airlines will stop flying to Dubai

Austrian Airlines has recently announced that they will no longer offer direct flights to and from Dubai because of over-capacity on the route. The last Austrian flight will depart from Vienna to Dubai on September 13, 2015 and return from Dubai to Vienna on September 14, 2015.