Austria

On 9 July, Austrian Airlines unveiled its summer schedule, which will run until the end of October. The Austrian airline - which currently operates at 20% of capacity - will be ramping up its operations, particularly from September onwards. Over the next few weeks, capacity is set to double, to 40% from...

Austrian Airlines will temporarily suspend its scheduled flights from Thursday 19 March 2020. The Austrian national airline is reacting to the entry restrictions imposed by many countries in response to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in Europe. The last flight is due to land in Vienna from Chicago on 19 March at 8.20am. Initially,...

The most spectacular measure taken in Austria concerns the almost total closure of the borders with Italy. Travellers will be turned away in both directions, with flights and rail links now completely suspended. Rail traffic will come to a halt on the evening of Tuesday 10 March. Trains travelling from other European countries will now have to stop at the Italian border.

The Nightjet service, inaugurated in December 2016, continues to expand. The night service operated by ÖBB, Oesterreischiche Bundesbahn (Austrian Federal Railways), is proving to be a real success story for the company, one that is underpinned in particular by Europeans' growing awareness of their environment. According to the OBB, its network of night trains in Europe has...

Will there soon be no more domestic flights in Austria? Alexis von Hoensbroech, CEO of Austrian Airlines, launched the debate over the summer, provoking irritation in business circles, particularly regional chambers of commerce. On one of the channels of Austrian national radio ORF, the CEO of Lufthansa's Austrian subsidiary...

Sixty years after its arrival in Paris, and ten years after its integration into the Lufthansa fold, Austrian Airlines is back in the black. Since 2017, the airline's indicators have been in the green again, and its management is now determined to prepare for the future. A number of representatives of the Austrian carrier and the Lufthansa Group have been...

Airlines are preparing for Brexit and its consequences. The British airline easyJet is setting up a European subsidiary in Vienna, Austria. The event itself comes as no surprise - British carriers have already indicated since the Brexit vote that they would seek a solution to remain in the European Union. However, the...

Identity card Currency: euro. Best season: all year round. Prices are cheaper in Kitzbühel outside the winter season. Getting there Both Innsbruck and Kitzbühel are a two-hour drive from Munich, so a direct flight to the Bavarian capital followed by a transfer by road is the easiest solution...

Donau City is a far cry from the imperial pomp of the Ring and the Finde-century arteries of central Vienna. With its high-tech skyscrapers, the Austrian capital's new business district presents a very contemporary vision of Mitteleuropa. It all started with the aborted 1995 Universal Exhibition, ultimately rejected by the...

In Vienna, there is now life far beyond the Ring Road. And even behind the Danube, thanks to the emergence of a new business district on the north bank of the river that borders the Austrian capital. For Vienna Donau-City - Vienna DC for those in a hurry - the story begins with a fiasco: the...