Austrian Airlines launches Vienna-Havana services

Austrian Airlines launches Vienna-Havana services
Dec 4, 2015 Kurt Hofmann

Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines plans to launch weekly Boeing
767-300ER Vienna-Havana (Cuba) service, from Oct. 25, 2016, as part of a
long-haul leisure market strategy.

The Austrian flag carrier recently expanded services into North America
with the launch of Boeing 777 5X-weekly Vienna-Miami services on Oct.
16. It also added weekly services from Vienna to Colombo (Sri Lanka) and
to Mauritius from Oct. 29.

The Star Alliance member also plans to add daily Vienna-Shanghai Pudong
777-200ER services from April 4, 2016.

The carrier stopped Vienna-Dubai services on Sept. 13 due to overcapacity.

Austrian Airlines CCO Andreas Otto told ATW recently the long-haul
market is still underserved from Austria; however, Otto said "there is a
demand that has to be well managed. We have additional plans, but we
don't expect an additional widebody aircraft before 2017. Long-haul
demand from Vienna is also very seasonal."

Austrian Airlines expects to transport 1,269,000 passengers on long-haul
routes this year.

It operates six Boeing 767-300ERs and five 777-200ERs in its long-haul
fleet.

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