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Austrian serving the Vienna-London route 4 times a day

As of 30 March 2014, Austrian will offer one additional flight from Vienna to London, leaving Vienna at 12.45 hrs., the return flight takes off in London at 15.20 hrs. Thus, additional options for connecting flights to the Austrian Federal provinces are offered. For Europe and domestic flights, Austrian has adjusted its tariffs. According to […]

Austrian and Lufthansa serving Frankfurt 13 times a day

Ramping up its flight offer ex Vienna to Frankfurt and back, Austrian will offer passengers an additional, i.e. sixth, daily connection as of 30 March 2014. Together with parent company Lufthansa, Austrian is proud to have thus 13 flights per day in its schedule. Flight times will be adjusted like we know it from local […]

New waiting area for NIKI & airberlin frequent fliers at Vienna Airport

airberlin & NIKI opened a separate waiting area for members of the “Topbonus” frequent-flyer program (holding silver, gold or platinum status) at Vienna Airport (Pier West, Gate C32/C33). On top of that, frequent flyers can benefit from parking lots reserved for them in Car Park P3 at Level 0 in direct vicinity to the terminal. […]

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 […]