The Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is planning its most extensive summer flight schedule to date from Vienna for the upcoming summer, with 15 new flight connections. The carrier thus serves a total of 91 routes from Vienna-Schwechat Airport.

The new destinations are Amman, Banja Luka, Bremen, Genoa, Kosice, Lamezia, Lappeenranta, Manchester, Perugia, Pula, Rimini, Stockholm, Venice, Zaragoza and Sibiu. With 19 aircraft stationed - and thus five additional ones - the airline's total investments in Vienna would now amount to over two billion euros, according to the carrier in a press release. New staff will also be hired for the planned fleet expansion, and the low-cost airline is looking for a total of 50 new flight attendants. Ryanair also insists on firing towards the competition at this point: "Ryanair continues to grow in Vienna, while Easyjet and Level have ceased operations and Austrian Airlines and Wizz Air have reduced their capacities, fleets and routes." In fact, Wizz Air just a few days ago many destinations have been removed from the planned summer flight schedule and thus significantly reduced the presence in VIE.

“As Austria's fastest growing airline, Ryanair is pleased to announce the most extensive Vienna flight schedule to date, with a total of 91 destinations. We are achieving this growth even without state aid, while AUA, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, received 300 million euros in cash injections from Austrian taxpayers, but in return reduced its fleet by 20 percent, shed 1.200 jobs and experienced a traffic fall of 66 percent,” said Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary.