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New airport lounges

After extensive refurbishment works, Air France & KLM have re-opened their lounge at Munich Airport.  AF/KLM flight passengers not having access to the lounge on account of their booking class can check out the lounges in Munich, but also in Frankfurt and at Berlin-Tegel against a fee of € 10.00 from 1 March to 15 […]

Austrian closing ticket counters at airports in Federal provinces

Austrian Airlines will close its ticket counters at the following Austrian airports: Klagenfurt and Linz as of 31 May, and Graz, Innsbruck and Salzburg as of 30 June. The remaining mere check-in counters will refer passengers to the Austrian Airlines call center in Innsbruck (e.g. in the event of flight delays or cancellations).

NIKI taking over Etihad Airways sales operations in Austria

As of now, NIKI takes over sales and back-office-support services on behalf of Etihad Airways in Austria. Etihad Airways is serving the Western Austrian market mainly via Munich Airport. As of 1 February 2014, Etihad Airways will operate two flights per day ex Munich to the airline’s hub in Abu Dhabi – with good connections […]

TAP Portugal ramping up Vienna frequencies and its baggage allowance

In the 2014 summer flight schedule, TAP will ramp up its Vienna-Lisbon route (each Tue/Fri/Sat/Sun) by a second flight. Also the Munich destination will be served from Lisbon in the future three times a day on Mon/Tue/Thu/Fr/Sat, respectively. In early January, TAP relaxed its baggage allowances for the African destinations of Luanda, Maputo, the Cape […]

Austrian sending text messages in case of delay

In the case of delay (from 30 minutes) or flights being cancelled, flight passengers will, via the new Austrian “yourUpdate” service, automatically receive a text or an e-mail with information on the current flight status and contact details for changing flight reservations without having to register. For this, all that passengers have to do is […]

New Lufthansa lounge in New York

In December, Lufthansa opened a new Premium Lounge at Newark Airport southwest of New York City which is connected non-stop by Lufthansa ex Frankfurt, Munich and Düsseldorf. Together with Swiss flights from Zurich and Austrian flights from Vienna, the Lufthansa Group thus offers close to 30 non-stop flights per week to Newark. Also other Star […]

Emirates ramps up capacities to Dubai

Ex Vienna, A-380 flights for Emirates will continue to be denied; yet from 16 January 2014, more passengers can be shipped to Dubai. Using a bigger Boeing 777-300ER plane, 96 seats will be added per flight. Emirates is serving the route to Munich already now with an A380 plane and will double capacities on the […]

EU relaxing rules for using electronic devices on board

Already now, passengers on US flights are again allowed to make more extensive use of their electronic devices. Now, also the EU has relaxed its rules, allowing for smartphones, tablets and similar devices to remain switched on in airplane mode during take-off and landing. Making telephone calls during flights is still a no-go. The new […]

US Airways – switch to Oneworld

The merger of US Airways and American Airlines has now been finalized. On 31 March 2014, US Airways will switch from Star Alliance to Oneworld of which American Airlines is a founding member. All regional subsidiaries operating under the US Airways Express brand will switch as well.

Austrian to significantly ramp up US flights

With the start of the 2014 summer season, Austrian Airlines intends to boost its offer for US-bound flights. On top of the daily flights from Vienna to New York JFK, there shall be five flights per week to Newark as of 2nd July. Newark airport does not only boast a relatively swift connection to Manhattan, […]