From Africa to Afghanistan – 4000 hours of operational experience

Whether it’s a firefighting mission in Turkey or a transport mission for the UN World Food Program in Africa, Moldovan pilots have been providing their services under the most adverse conditions around the globe for more than 30 years. It is a bitterly cold morning as I wait outside the security checkpoint at Chisinau airport […]

Nachfragerückgang nach zweitem Lockdown deutlich spürbarer

Thomas Krutzler, Chef der People’s Air Group über die Lage bei der Airline People’s und beim Flughafen Altenrhein, schnelle Ticketrückerstattungen, Staatshilfe und die Flottenplanung. Als der Vorarlberger Geschäftsmann und Investor Markus Kopf im Jahr 2010 zum alleinigen Besitzer des Airports St. Gallen-Altenrhein wurde, hatte er zunächst nur ein gewinnbringendes Immobilieninvestment im Sinn. Der kleine Schweizer […]

GlobeAir – The customer is the focus

When you think of Austria’s largest airline, the one with the red tail unit will certainly come to mind. Wrongly thought, in fact the largest Austrian-owned airline is GlobeAir based in Linz- Hörsching, which has been successfully covering the booming market of Very Light Jets in Europe with its Cessna Citiation Mustang Jets for years. […]

Pink Skyvan Boogie 2020

Twice a year, the same scene is repeated at Punitz Airport in southern Burgenland (Austria). Numerous skydivers from home and abroad gather to celebrate the “Pink Skyvan Boogie” of the parachute jump club freifall.at together. Even the Covid-19 pandemic could not change this year’s long-standing tradition. Under special safety conditions the skydiving community met in […]

Branchentalk: Andreas Otto (CCO) Austrian Airlines

Nun ist es also vollbracht, Austrian Airlines fliegt nicht nur wieder im Europaverkehr, sondern auch wieder interkontinental. Am 1.Juli hob Flug OS 89 von Wien-Schwechat nach New York (Newark) mit 63 Passagieren ab. Noch am selben Tag folgten mit Washington, Chicago und Bangkok drei weitere AUA – Langstreckenziele. Mit derzeit 50 Destinationen, einer Flottengröße von […]

ATB: “Opportunity for growth in the post-Corona period

Austrian Airlines has operated a technical maintenance facility at Bratislava Airport since 2006. Austrian Technik Bratislava (ATB) specialises in the maintenance of regional aircraft. Initially, only Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 aircraft were maintained, but over the years the range of services has been expanded. ATB could soon prove that the corona pandemic in aviation […]

Austrian: Successful restart after Corona break

After an almost 90-day corona interruption, Austrian Airlines was able to celebrate a very emotional maiden flight on Monday 15 June. After the suspension of the European Covid-19 travel restrictions, the first AUA jet took off again for a commercial flight from Schwechat to Munich. A look back: In the early morning of March 19, […]

After passenger records were broken, a lockdown followed…

Bratislava Airport has everything a modern airport needs. Unrestricted 24-hour flight operations, a modern terminal that was only opened in 2012, a two-runway system, numerous maintenance companies and sufficient space for future expansion. After the bankruptcy of the former home carrier Skyeurope Airlines in 2009 and the resulting passenger losses in the following years, the […]

10 years Air Explore

The invitations for the big celebration of the 10th anniversary of the largest Slovak airline had already been sent out when the Covid-19 epidemic put a damper on the young airline’s plans. As probably one of the youngest airline founders in the history of European aviation, Martin Stulajter (CEO) started his airline exactly ten years […]

Ein sibirischer Wintertraum

Sibirien im Winter? Anfang Jänner erhielt ich eine Einladung von Corinna Preisinger (Sales Manager Aeroflot) und Walter Tretenhahn (Eastlink) zur Teilnahme an einer achttägigen Reise nach Sibirien. Die Freude über die Einladung war groß, doch gleichzeitig stellte ich mir die Frage, ob ich diese auch wirklich annehmen sollte den schließlich sind die Temperaturen zu dieser […]