Austrian Airlines celebrates 50 years of operations

After its maiden flight, further scheduled services to Frankfurt, Zurich, Stuttgart, Paris, Rome and Warsaw were launched in the first year of operation of which Warsaw was the first Eastern European destination in the carrier’s network.

Soon followed by Moscow, Bucharest, Belgrade and Sofia in 1959, Vienna developed into a hub providing West-East air transport in the decades that followed.

The Austrian Airlines Group now carries its passengers to 130 destinations around the world.

The carrier carried 25,567 passengers and 186 tonnes of cargo in 1958, it carried 10.8 million passengers and 150,335 tonnes of cargo in 2007.

© Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 03-Apr-08
 

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