Vienna Airport CEO Günther Ofner, in his capacity as WKO trade group chairman, describes the online survey organized by the Vida union about the new collective agreement for Austrian Airlines' flight crew that is currently being negotiated as a "fake survey." For several weeks now, Ofner, who is the full-time board member of Austria's largest airport, has been issuing strong criticism of the Vida union and the AUA works council as a WKO official. In this context, it should be noted that, for legal reasons, Austrian Airlines is not allowed to negotiate and conclude the collective agreement itself, but must be represented by the Chamber of Commerce, whose aviation trade group chairman is Günther Ofner. At the same time, AUA is the largest airline customer of Flughafen Wien AG, which Ofner manages together with Julian Jäger. The fronts in the collective agreement negotiations are hardened, because the employee representatives are demanding significantly higher wages than those offered by the employers. While Ofner has repeatedly described the latest offer as "very good", the Vida union sees things very differently. AUA boss Annette Mann recently even suggested that if the employee representatives prevail, Austrian Airlines could even have to close an unspecified number of routes for economic reasons or hand them over to sister companies within the Lufthansa Group that, in their view, would fly more economically. This statement was certainly perceived as a threat by the works councils and union members. In the meantime, several works meetings and even strikes organized by the employee representatives have been held. No agreement has been reached in 20 rounds of negotiations so far. In the first quarter of the current year 2024, Austrian Airlines flew deep red figures. This will