Austrian Airlines and Eurowings are re-enforcing its working agreement to strengthen the Vienna hub and expand traffic from the Austrian federal states.
Under the agreement, Austrian Airlines will be responsible for network planning at the Vienna hub in order to improve the management of transfer traffic.
As of 1 January 2020, Eurowings will deploy four aircraft including crews in wet lease for Austrian Airlines.
At the same time, Eurowings will strongly expand its presence at Salzburg Airport and increase the number of Airbus A319 aircraft stationed in the City of Mozart to a total of three.
Under the agreement, destinations will be offered in the route network of Austrian Airlines as of January 2020: two daily flights will be operated to Barcelona expanding from 12 to 14 weekly flights. Birmingham will be served up to once daily, an increase from four to seven flights per week.
Up to two flights will be operated every day to Nuremberg, with 12 weekly flights instead of 11, and frequencies to Rome will rise to three daily flights with 21 flights each week instead of 12.
In addition, up to one daily flight will be offered to Zadar raising the number of weekly flights from two to seven.
For Austrian Airlines, the ten additional A320 aircraft already announced earlier this year will be complemented by four wet lease aircraft from Eurowings.
In January, Austrian Airlines reported that it would phase out its smaller turboprop aircraft by 2021 and increase its medium-haul Airbus fleet from 36 to 46 airplanes.
This change in the fleet composition is currently being implemented. The first of the 10 A320 aircraft is planned to land in Vienna shortly.