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23 June 2008: FlyBaboo flies Geneva - Vienna
FlyBaboo, swiss based regional carrier, introduced new services on Monday, 16th June. The airlines operates Dash 8Q-400 and ERJ-190. For time informations see here.
05 June 2008: Niki announces service Vienna - Innsbruck - Vienna
After SkyEurope ceased operations between Vienna and Innsbruck this days, Niki announces scheduled flights from Vienna to Innsbruck and return starting in winter 2008. From Monday to Friday an Airbus A320 will operate three times a day, on Saturdays one time in the morning and twice on Sundays.
05 June 2008: Eva Air announces flights on Wednesdays
Eva Air starts new flights between Taipeh and Vienna on 24th September 2008. Type of aircraft: A330-200.
29 October 2007: easyJet new services to London
easyJet, Europe's fourth largest airline, starts its new services between Londn Luton and Vienna today. Boeing 737-700 can be seen daily to different times between 14:25 and 16:30.
12 May 2007: Austrian Airlines add winglets to its Boeing 767-300
As the first European airline Austrian Airlines will add winglets to its Boeing 767-300 within the next months.
12 May 2007: The end of Austrian Airlines' A340-300
On 29th April Austrian Airlines operates its last official flight with an Airbus A340-300. Both airliners will be sold to "Star Alliance"- partner Swiss within the next months. It is also the end of Austrian Airlines only special colour scheme, the "Wiener Philharmoniker". OE-LAK lost his Austrian Airlines- colours last week and came back in white colours from Manila on 11th May.
11 May 2007: Air Transat: Wien - Montreal
Air Transat inaugurates its new flights from Vienna to Montreal. Airbus A310 connects the two cities once weekly (each Friday), in June 2007 a second weekly flight each Monday follows.
31 January 2007: 4th Boeing 777-200 reaches Vienna
The fourth Triple Seven of the Austrian Airlines Group, OE-LPD, reaches Vienna. The aircraft will complement the airlines future long-haul fleet with its sisterships OE-LPA till OE-LPC (ex Lauda Air). For photos see here exlusive on www.planes-international.com.
20 December 2006: SkyEurope opens base at Vienna
SkyEurope opens a new base at Vienna Airport on 30th March 2007. The slovak airline will operate 16 routes including Paris ORY, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Athens, Venice etc. For more informations visit www.skyeurope.com .
12 October 2006: Vienna - Atlanta starts in May 2007
After a break of seven years Delta Airlines will start a new service between Atlanta and Austrians capital Vienna operating Boeing 767's five times a week. According to Delta Airlines the airline will provide daily services with the beginning of 2008.
11 October 2006: Starting up
After several weeks in storage at Vienna Airport, Golden Citys Aviations first and only McDonnell Douglas MD-83 will operate some flights to Cologne at the end of this week. Indian founder Kandra Bhupider Bhupani and his compatriot Sidhu Singh, who bought Air Slovakia on 10th October 2006 and is also the main owner of Golden City Aviation, plan nonstop- flights from Vienna to cities Goa, Gochin, Jaipur und Amritsar in South India. European destinations Amsterdam and London will follow in March 2007. Through the aquisition of Air Slovakia there are one MD-83 and two Boeing 757-200 to disposal. Three more McDonnell Douglas MD-83 will follow in December and two Boeing 767 in March 2007.
04 October 2006: Longhaul- news for summer timetable 2007
With her fourth Boeing 777-200 Austrian Airlines will start the new year 2007. With February 2007 the new aircraft should be in service on longhaul-routes to Australia. With the end of winter timetable 2006/07 Austrian Airlines will end its services to Australia, so all four 777-200 will be used for flights to Asia and North America. Airbus A340's will be replaced on route to Washington. Moreover "Triple-sevens" will fly to Tokio (six times a week), Bangkok (daily) and Delhi (saisonal). The airline will provide additional flights to New York (up to 13 times a week) and new to Chicago four times a week beginning in April up to daily services in June with A330's.
13 September 2006: Golden City - new Low-Cost-Flights from Vienna and Bratislava
Following rumours 4 MD80 of Map Jets will operate flights from Vienna and Bratislava as Golden City. Moreover the operator will add two Boeing 757-200 of Air Slovakia into its fleet. Map Jets overtakes all flights of Air Slovakia, which operates scheduled services between the U.K. and India with tank stops in Bratislava (BTS).
27 July 2006: Korean Air to Vienna
It is possible that Korean Air establishes new passenger flights from Incheon to Vienna beginning at 15th September till the beginning of winter timetable. In 2007 Korean Air will start its service with the beginning of summer timetable again. More informations will follow. The Austrian Airlines Group takes its services to Australia out of the timetable. Three Boeing 777-200 flew to Melbourne and Sydney.
19 May 2006: Austrian Airlines Group launches another flights to Russia
Starting at 5th June the Austrian Airlines Group will launch another flights Vienna- Moscow- Vienna, which is based on the new traffic rights. Between Monday and Thursday the airline operates a new morning flight with Airbus A319. On Mondays departure time in Vienna is at 08:10, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 07:35 and on Wednesdays at 08:40. Together with Aeroflot the Austrian Airlines Group provides up to five flights the day.
18 May 2006: Korean Cargo extends its flightplan
Korean Cargo will introduce twelve flights to Vienna in wintertime. The flights start at Incheon Airport and will follow up to AMS (3x), ARN (2x), CPH (2x), FRA (2x), IST (1x), MXP (1x) und OSL (1x). After the extention the airline will be Vienna's biggest cargo- carrier.
26 April 2006: Austrian Airlines Group flies to Jekaterinburg
On 26th April the Austrian Airlines Group started new nonstop flights out of Vienna to Jekaterinburg, which counts 5 mio. inhabitants and is situated on place three under Russia's biggest cities. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday the flights starting at 20:00 at Vienna with arrival at 04:40 at Jekaterinburg Airport (four hours time differnce). Back flights start at 05:40 and arrive Vienna Airport at 06:20 after a 4 hours and 20 minutes flight.
08 April 2006: Emirates Sky Cargo opens Dubai - Vienna
Emirates Sky Cargo operated its first cargo flight from Dubai to Vienna on 8th April. The cargo carrier will offer this new weekly service each saturday with arrival at 17:10 at Vienna Airport.
25 March 2006: Malaysia Airlines will stop flights to Vienna
Malaysia Airlines will stop its services out of Kuala Lumpur to Vienna on 1 June 2006. Till this time the airline provides three weekly flights on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
14 March 2006: China Airlines will operate A330 to Vienna
China Airlines will change its aircraft type operating out of Taipeh to Vienna from Airbus A340 to Airbus A330 with 26 April 2006. In contrast to the nonstop flights at this time, China Airlines will stopp in Abu Dhabi. Days of operations are Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, where the A330 will stand in Vienna between 07:30 and 09:20.


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