Company Watch - Austrian Airlines,.Mar 5, 2007 Austrian Airlines Austrian Airlines AG is the flag carrier airline of Austria, headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled sevices to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport, with a hub at Innsbruck Airport.[1] In 2006 Austrian had 10 million passengers. operates 566 weekly flights, including codeshare operations, to 45 Eastern and Central European destinations. The 2 million passengers it transports on those routes constitute a quarter of its business. Among Western European carriers it serves the second most destinations in Russia after Lufthansa's 10. Feb 27, 2007 Austrian Airlines takes more than 200,000 passengers to Russia each year and expects its alliance with AiRUnion to produce 100,000 additional passengers. Meanwhile, AiRUnion is preparing to offer flights to Vienna from Samara Samara, river, Russia Samara (səmä`rə), river, c.360 mi (580 km) long, rising in the foothills of the S Urals, European Russia. It flows generally northwest, and joins the Volga River at Samara. and Krasnoyarsk. Feb 27, 2007 Austrian Airlinesfocuses east with AiRUnion. Austrian Airlines Group last week took another step in its Focus East strategy when it formally switched its Moscow operation to Domodedovo after 47 years at Sheremetyevo. "It was not an easy decision for us," Austrian CCO (Chief or Corporate Compliance Officer) The executive person in charge of compliance issues, regulatory requirements, internal controls and managing audits within an enterprise or organization. Josef Burger said. "With our new partner AiRUnion, we have access to 41 destinations from DME (Distributed Management Environment) A network monitoring and control protocol defined by the Open Software Foundation (now The Open Group). DME was not widely used. DME - Distributed Management Environment ." Feb 27, 2007 Austrian Airlines formerly worked with Aeroflot, but severing ties with a SkyTeam carrier and aligning with AiRUnion makes sense for the airline, which serves Moscow thrice-daily and offers 39 weekly flights from Vienna to five Russian destinations. It will add a sixth this year, has rights to a seventh and is interested in launching regional service in the country, Burger said. Feb 27, 2007 Austrian Airlines is looking to send maintenance east as well. CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Thomas Kleibl told this website an Foller F70/F100 "competence center" will be established in Bratislava, employing 50. "We are in talks with partners, like Honeywell, to bring in more maintenance work from third-party carriers," he said. AAG AAG Association of American Geographers (Washington, DC) AAG Assistant Attorney General AAG Asociación Argentina de Golf AAG Anti-Aircraft Gun AAG Assistant Adjutant General AAG Australian Association of Gerontology is one of the largest Fokker operators in Europe with nine F70s and 12 F100s. It will add two Foller F100s this year and two in 2008. Feb 27, 2007 03/05/2007 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Feb 26, 2007 |
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