Austrian Airlines Group

Austrian Airlines Group
Type Public
Industry Aviation
Founded 1957
Headquarters Schwechat, Austria
Key people Peter Malanik, Chairman & CEO
Employees 8.031 (2007)
Website www.austrianairlines.ag

The Austrian Airlines Group consists of Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air, Tyrolean Airways and other shares and is a 100% subsidiary of Lufthansa of Germany. It possesses 99 airplanes and in 2007 the Austrian Airlines Group had 10.8 million passengers. It is headquartered in Schwechat, Wien-Umgebung.[1][2]

Contents

Shares

Next to Lauda Air and Tyrolean Airways, the Austrian Airlines Group holds stakes at another 24 companies. Air traffic gets operated by Tyrolean and Austrian itself. The AUA Group sold off their interests of Slovak Airlines in January 2007. 22,5% of the Ukrainian airline Ukraine International were also owned by the AUA Group. Gulet-Touropa-Touristik is partly owned by the AUA Group, though the majoritarian share is owned by TUI.

A few other interests:

Alliance

The Austrian Airlines Group was a member of Swissair's "Qualiflyer" frequent traveller programme, but switched to the Star Alliance in 2000. [3]

Destinations

The Austrian Airlines Group serves destinations in Europe, Asia and North America.

Fleet

(December 2008)[4]

Aircraft Type Amount Average age Notes
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES
Airbus A320 family A319-112 7 5.2 years
A320-214 8 10.6 years 2 Airbus 320s will be leased from 2009
A321-111/211 6 12 years
21 9.2 years
Boeing B737 Series Boeing 737-600 2 8.9 years
B737-700 2 7.9 years
B737-800 7 6.3 years 1 Lauda Air livery and 6 Austrian livery
10 6.9 years
Boeing B767 Series B767-300ER 6 14.1 years 1 with a Star Alliance livery
Boeing B777 Series B777-200ER 4 8.8 years
10 12 years
Austrian Airlines and Lauda Air TOTAL 42 7.4 years
TYROLEAN AIRWAYS
Fokker 70/100 Fokker 70 9 14.2 years
Fokker 100 16 16.3 years
25 15.5 years
Bombardier Q Series Q300 11 11.0 years
Q400 10 9.5 years
21 9.0 years
Tyrolean Airways TOTAL 59 12.5 years
AUA Group TOTAL 101 10.9 years

References

  1. ^ "Offices in Austria." Austrian Airlines. Retrieved on 26 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Information about the city plan." City of Schwechat. Retrieved on 5 September 2009.
  3. ^ Austrian Airlines Group: Star Alliance
  4. ^ Austro Control: Behördliches Österreichisches Zivilluftfahrzeuggegister

External links

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