About Austrian Airlines
Austria’s flag carrier airline is Austrian Airlines. The companies headquarters are located in Vienna with a main base of operations at Vienna International Airport. Austrian Airlines was started in 1957 with its first maiden flight occurring on March 18, 1958 with a flight from Vienna to London. After a merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways the current Austrian Airlines was formed. On April 1, 1969 the company began transatlantic services from Vienna to Brussels and New York.

Austrian Airlines Destinations: -
As of 2006 flights to and from Central and Eastern Europe were dominated by Austrian Airlines. The longest flight routes offered by Austrian Airlines are from Vienna to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia with stops in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. These flights will end on March 25, 2007 and will no longer be offered. Some of the companies long haul flights are being suspended as a result of fleet cuts in 2006. As of January 7, 2007 flights to Shanghai will also be stopped in addition to flights to Phuket, Mauritius, Colombo and Male.

New Austrian Airlines Destinations: -
As a result of cutbacks in longer route flights, Austrian Airlines will be increase the frequency of the flights their offers from Vienna to Moscow with the addition of a third flight every day Monday through Thursday. Twice a week Austrian Airlines operates flights to Erbil in Iraq since they started doing so in December 11, 2006. They were the first airline carrier in Europe to start service to Iraq. In 2007 the company also plans to start a new flight route to Amritsar in India from Vienna.

Austrian Airlines Fleet: -
Plans were approved in November 2006 by the board for Austrian Airlines to retire their Airbus wide bodied fleet of aircraft in order to concentrate solely on operating a fleet that is a mixture of Boeing 767 and 777 aircraft. Throughout the last year Austrian Airlines had started to retire their Airbus A340 aircraft and the last two will leave the fleet sometime in 2007. Once the Airbus aircraft are retired this will reduce the number of long distance flight services the company can offer. Instead, they will increase the frequency of their short distance flights in the European area.