At the airline Austrian Airlines, short-time work was partially ended after more than two years. The flying personnel are no longer subject to this state aid measure, which numerous Austrian companies have made use of due to the corona pandemic.

The commercial and technical employees of Austrian Airlines are still on short-time work. This was initially extended until the end of May 2022, a spokeswoman confirmed to Aviation.Direct. AUA was the first large company to register short-time work in March 2020. At the time, this step was initially considered surprising, but numerous companies had to make use of this support during the course of the pandemic.

While at Level Europe, had to file for bankruptcy and Eurowings Europe and Austrian Airlines was very quiet, Laudamotion turned the topic of short-time work into a public soap opera. For example, it was demanded that the then Minister Aschbacher should instruct the Vida trade union to sign the social partner agreement. Short-time work was ended after just a few weeks under the pretext of Closure of the Vienna base, being only a few months later the Successor Lauda Europe started and Laudamotion AOC and operating license voluntarily returned to the Austrian authorities.