Austrian Airlines will run two new flights connecting Romanian capital Bucharest to Vienna from March 25, to reach five daily flights between the two cities and 62 weekly Romania-Vienna services. The airline’s summer schedule will include 62 weekly flights from Bucharest, Timisoara, Sibiu, Iasi and Cluj to the Austrian capital. The carrier will offer lower fares for return tickets to Vienna – from EUR 99, all taxes included, said Philipp Happel, General Manager with Austrian Airlines.The airline has been serving Romanian routes for more than 50 years. The first Austrian Airline airplane landed in Romania in 1959. Routes were added to Timisoara in 1992, Cluj in 2000, Sibiu in 2005 and Iasi in 2006.
The carrier competes with Air Berlin and Tarom, which both have Vienna – Bucharest services. Austrian Airlines operates 130 routes and carried 11.2 million passengers last year, up 3.4 percent on the year before.
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