Formula One legend Niki Lauda has announced that he will handover complete control of his airline Niki to major shareholder, Air Berlin. The Austrian driver set the carrier up six years after he sold his previous venture to Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines. Lauda Air was Niki’s first foray into the business, and it was established [...]

Passengers had to restrain and Austrian librarian following a mid-air dispute at the weekend. Customers said that 32 year-old Harald Albrecht lunged toward one of the crewmembers onboard an Austrian Airlines flight from Washington to the company’s base in Vienna, but didn’t make contact. Reports said that Mr Albrecht had consumed wine and a sleeping [...]

Improvements in security have promoted more international airlines to commence services to and from Iraq. The news comes following two decades of few commercial flights in and out of the troubled Middle Eastern nation due to security concerns and UN-imposed ‘no fly zone’ restrictions following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. But now carriers are seeing [...]

Austrian Airlines has resumed its service to the Iraqi capital. The news comes 21 years after the route was discontinued, and the recommencement marks the first regularly scheduled direct air link between Europe and Baghdad to operate since the beginning the Gulf War in the early 1990s. The Vienna-based carrier, which has been operating service [...]

Germany’s Lufthansa Group has reported operating profits of €876 million for 2010. The figure marks an impressive increase on those seen in 2009 when it posted profits of just €130 million as it emerged from the economic downturn. The company cited a number of factors for the improvement including increased demand in both its passenger [...]

Air carriers have started to check aircraft for radioactive contamination following an official warning. The checks follow a statement from the top European atmospheric safety agency, which said that airlines could be affected by atmospheric radiation due to ongoing issues with damaged nuclear reactors in Japan. The VAAC, which is based in London and normally [...]

Austrian Airlines is to resume flights to Mumbai, India, after pulling out for a year and a half. The Austrian-based carrier, which is now part of the Lufthansa Passenger Airline Group, will start running five flights from Mumbai and an additional three to the original three already flying from New Delhi. Both routes will run [...]

Lufthansa is Europe’s second biggest airline. It recently had to offer concessions to the EU regulators to avoid problems with anti-trust laws, due to its plans to purchase Austrian Airlines. However, this week Lufthansa has revised is proposed concessions in a controversial move. The European Commission will discuss the issue with other European Airlines to [...]

Lufthansa says that the ball is now in the hands of the European Commission. This is something that they said after they submitted a new package of concessions to the European Commission in a bid to win approval for its takeover of Austrian Airlines. A Lufthansa spokesperson said that they have now made a new [...]

www.aua.com Austrian Airlines has now thrown a warning out to the European Commission that if they rule against the proposed takeover by Lufthansa, they would need at least €1 Billion in new funds to ensure its survival. Peter Mnichaelis, the chairman of Austrian Airlines, told the airline’s shareholders in a meeting earlier this week that [...]