{"id":101797,"date":"2020-11-04T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=101797"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:18:32","slug":"expansion-rail-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/expansion-rail-austria","title":{"rendered":"COVID has no effect on the expansion of Austrian railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most of its European counterparts, the <strong>Austrian Federal Railways \u00d6BB<\/strong> will commission their<strong> 2021 timetables on 13 December<\/strong>. And these timetables contain a series of new features presented by the company's CEO Andreas Matth\u00e4 at a press conference in Vienna at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>\"\u00a0<em>We are of course affected by the health crisis, with the loss of several million passengers from our lines. Our trains are currently showing a load factor of 60% on main lines and 70% on regional lines compared with last year. The new restrictions are also affecting our night services. After reaching a load factor of 90% this summer, we are now at around 60%.<\/em>\" says the Managing Director.<\/p>\n    <style>\n        div.link-block {\n            margin: 1em;\n            margin-left: 2px;\n            font-weight: bold;\n            padding: 1em;\n            position: relative;\n            border-top: 1px solid #cecece;\n            border-bottom: 1px solid #cecece;\n            font-size: 1.15rem;\n        } \n        div.link-block::before {\n            display: block;\n            content: '';\n            position: absolute;\n            top: 0.5em;\n            bottom: 0.5em;\n            left: -2px;\n            background-color: #a91c2c;\n            border-radius: 2.5px;\n            width: 5px;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a {\n            text-decoration: none;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n            font-family: 'Roboto', Arial, sans-serif;\n        }\n        div.link-block > a:hover {\n            text-decoration: underline;\n            border-bottom: none;\n            color: black;\n        }\n        @media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {\n            div.link-block {\n                padding: 0.7em;\n            }\n        }\n    <\/style>\n    <div class=\"link-block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/austrian-railways-night-trains\">Read also: Austrian Federal Railways present their new Nightjets<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101815\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/obb-andreas-mattha-directeur-general.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101815\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/obb-andreas-mattha-directeur-general.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/obb-andreas-mattha-directeur-general.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/obb-andreas-mattha-directeur-general-300x169-derived.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00d6BB CEO Andreas Matthi\u00e4 at the press conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, this situation should not affect the rail operator's expansion plans. \u00d6BB confirms order for <strong>nine trains<\/strong> <strong>Railjet<\/strong> <strong>on its main features<\/strong> and <strong>13 trains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/retour-trains-de-nuit-europe-20200813.html\/\">Nightjet <\/a>for its night shift<\/strong>. The new Railjets will enter service in 2023\/24 and the Nightjets in 2022. In the meantime, \u00d6BB will continue to modernise its existing trains. And it is announcing improvements to its lines, with denser connections between Austria's major cities and international destinations.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #a71f31\">More Nightjets to Brussels while waiting for Paris<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>An early-morning Railjet train will now run between Vienna and Salzburg via Linz. <strong>More day trips<\/strong> will be offered on the <strong>Vienna-Graz, Innsbruck-Salzburg<\/strong> and <strong>Salzburg-Klagenfurt<\/strong>. An agreement has also just been reached with <strong>Austrian Airlines<\/strong> for <strong>four trains a day<\/strong> directly linking the<strong>Vienna to Graz airport<\/strong> in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, the operator will once again be offering <strong>one train every hour on the Vienna-Budapest route<\/strong> as well as more trains on <strong>Munich<\/strong> and <strong>Zurich<\/strong>. Trains also run every 30 minutes between <strong>Vienna <\/strong>and<strong> Bratislava<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While Nightjets night trains are temporarily suspended between Austria, Germany and Switzerland between 8 November and 2 December, the company has confirmed its plans for 2021. A new daily service will be launched from 13 December between Vienna, Innsbruck and Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also ramping up its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/train-nuit-nightjet-bruxelles-20200128.html\/\"><strong>Nightjet Vienna-Brussels<\/strong><\/a>. Trains will now run between the two towns <strong>three times a week<\/strong>. The Nightjet will depart every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 19:32 from Brussels midday to reach Vienna Central at 09:19. In the opposite direction, trains will leave Vienna at 20:13 on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, arriving in the EU capital at 09:55.<\/p>\n<p>According to Andreas Matthi\u00e4, the Nightjet service will continue to develop with the arrival of the<strong>arrival of new trains<\/strong>. Lines will be launched in the short term from <strong>Zurich to Amsterdam and Brussels. <\/strong>By 2024, a link should have started between <strong>Vienna and Barcelona<\/strong> via Zurich and Geneva. No stops have yet been defined in France, but it is likely that <strong>Lyon<\/strong> and <strong>Montpellier<\/strong> would be affected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris is still on the agenda for the CEO<\/strong>. Talks have already begun between SNCF, Deutsche Bahn and \u00d6BB, with the hope of a forthcoming announcement.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #a71f31\">View reservation seats on the app. \u00d6BB<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In terms of services, First Class passengers on Railjet trains will once again benefit from a seat service. The rail company is also offering a range of newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6BB has also enhanced its application with the possibility of <strong>be able to select your seat on a graph<\/strong>. This makes it possible to assess the occupancy rate of the cars, which is an advantage during the holiday season. An English and Italian version is also available.<\/p>\n<p>\"\u00a0<em>Travellers can rest assured. We are taking every health precaution during this pandemic period. According to studies, no clusters have been reported on our trains. Travelling with us remains very safe<\/em>\" concluded Andreas Matth\u00e4.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epidemic will have no impact on the expansion plans of Austria's \u00d6BB railways, according to Andreas Matth\u00e4, Managing Director, at a presentation of the new services for 2021.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":101813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,61],"tags":[1037,1353,1431],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-101797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobilite","category-ferroviaire","tag-autriche","tag-compagnies-ferroviaires","tag-train","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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