Austrian Airlines

In 1957 Air Austria and Austrian Airways merged to form Austrian Airlines. Austrian Airlines is part of the Austrian Group which is comprised of Austrian, Lauda Air and Austrian Arrows. Austrian concentrates on providing scheduled services, Austria Arrows main focus is regional business, with Luada Air taking care of charter flights.

Austrian Airlines uses the Vienna International Airport. This airport has an excellent infrastructure and is run very efficiently. Upon arrival at Vienna Airport, it should never be more than 30 minutes before passengers on their connecting flight. If for some reason there is a longer wait, passengers can relax in the comfortable lounges or grab something to eat in one of the cafés. Austrian also provides comfortable, convenient flights for travel. The offer entertainment, good food and comfortable seats. When you are traveling, you should have a suitable travel insurance policy, for frequent flyers there is multi trip travel insurance that will cover your insurance needs for a specific period of time.

Austrian, Lauda Air and Austrian Arrows joined the Star Alliance Network in 2000. This is the largest airline alliance in the world. The alliance was established in 1997. All together, the airlines of this group travel to 133 countries and 772 destinations in the world. Again with everyone in the alliance, there are over 12, 700 flights and 2000 aircraft operated each day. The alliance is able to offer travelers even more options and destinations. There are over 320,000 employees of the various airlines in the Star Alliance Network. They all work to provide travelers with a safe and pleasant trip.

Along with the other partners of the Austrian Airlines Group, Austrian is able to travel to 130 destinations. They travel to destination on 5 continents and in 66 countries. For long-haul flights they use the following aircraft: Airbus A340-211, A340-313, A330-223, Boeing 777-200, and 767-300 ER. As a whole the group carried over 8.5 million passengers in 2003.