The 2024 summer flight schedule will begin at Vienna-Schwechat Airport in a few days. This year it consists of 190 destinations that can be reached non-stop from Austria's largest airport. The largest provider is still Austrian Airlines with 120 destinations.

The competitor Ryanair has around 80 destinations in its portfolio from Vienna-Schwechat. As number three, Wizz Air has 29 destinations. The latter carrier recently reduced the number of aircraft stationed locally by an Airbus A321neo. This is justified, among other things, by the engine problems of the manufacturer Pratt & Whitney.

New destinations in the 2024 summer flight schedule include Boston, Bremen and Tbilisi, which are served by Austrian Airlines. The destinations Tokyo and Los Angeles are now part of the seasonal program. The competitor Ryanair, for example, now offers Split, Tirana, Olbia and Rijeka from Austria's largest airport. In the future, Eurowings – namely Austrian Airlines – will also set course for Vienna from Berlin. All Nippon Airways (ANA) will be flying to Tokyo-Haneda again from August and Air Canada, Air China, Qatar Airways and Kuwait Airways are increasing their connections.

“Summer time is travel time: This year's summer flight schedule at Vienna Airport covers a wide range of destinations, including exciting incentives for long-distance travel with 17 long-haul destinations such as Boston from Austrian Airlines or Tokyo from the returning ANA. Numerous popular holiday classics within Europe and the Mediterranean are offered on short and medium-haul routes. Good international connections are important for Austria as a whole as a business and tourism location. In the summer of 2024, 60 airlines will serve 190 destinations in 67 countries worldwide at Vienna Airport,” said Julian Jäger, CEO of Flughafen Wien AG.

AUA's largest provider – Malta Air is stationing two B737-Max-200s

With 120 destinations that can be reached without changing trains from Vienna-Schwechat, Austrian Airlines remains the largest provider. Competitor Ryanair has repeatedly announced that it wants to overtake AUA, particularly in terms of the number of passengers carried. However, we are still a long way from this ambitious goal in the summer of 2024. This year the AUA summer flight schedule is once again strongly motivated by tourism. There is a new addition announced on the long-haul route: Boston, which should have been served for the first time in 2020, but was “postponed” due to the corona pandemic. is scheduled to begin in summer 2024. The AUA will also bring in the first two used Boeing 787-9 aircraft. From June 15, 2024, this pattern will be used towards New York and the Chicago route will follow on July 1, 2024. Austrian Airlines will gradually become a total of eleven Dreamliners. Due to pilot training, this type of machine will fly on selected European routes as early as May 2024.

The competitor Ryanair is increasing frequencies on around ten warm water routes. These include, for example, the destinations Catania, Rhodes, Santorini and Malaga. There are also plans to fly more frequently to Dublin, Ireland in the summer of 2024. New additions include Rijeka, Olbia, Tirana and Split. A total of 19 machines are stationed on site. These are Airbus A320, operated by Lauda Europe, Boeing 737-800 from Malta Air and Buzz as well two Malta Air Boeing 737-Max-200s. In addition, there is the capacity of aircraft that head for Vienna-Schwechat from another base.

Wizz Air with fewer aircraft in Vienna

The pink low-cost airline Wizz Air will operate with five Airbus A2024neo stationed in Vienna in the 321 summer flight schedule. This reduces the number of jets stationed on site by one unit. One reason for this is that there is temporarily less capacity available due to the problems with the Pratt & Whitney engines. The number of destinations offered by Wizz Air Malta from Vienna in summer 2024 is 29. Recently the offer has been reduced and for example a Saudi Arabia and the Kuwait route removed from the program.

Im In contrast to its competitor Ryanair The intention is to continue to serve the destinations Tel Aviv and Amman in the summer of 2024. The carrier points out on its homepage that the higher costs incurred for Terminal 3 at the Israeli airport will be passed on to passengers. Hurghada and Sharm el Sheikh are scheduled to be served until mid-June 2024. Split and Larnaca should then be reactivated. Frequency increases will include Tirana, London-Gatwick, Barcelona, ​​Malaga and Naples.

Eurowings new to Berlin – comeback of the ANA

With the start of the summer flight schedule, Eurowings is launching a new connection to Germany from Vienna: the existing network to Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Stuttgart will be expanded to include Berlin. With 11 frequencies per week, Eurowings will in future connect Vienna with the German capital up to twice a day.

After a break of almost four years due to the corona pandemic, Japan's largest airline is returning to Vienna: From August 2024, All Nippon Airways (ANA) will again fly directly between Vienna and Tokyo-Haneda, the connection will be operated three times a week. The existing range of connections is being increased by Air China to Beijing, Air Canada to Toronto, Qatar Airways to Doha and Kuwait Airways to Kuwait. Emirates is increasing capacity to Dubai and has been using the A2024, the world's largest passenger aircraft, from mid-February until the end of the 380 summer flight schedule.