Corona infections among employees are currently shaking up the flight schedule of the Lufthansa subsidiary. At the beginning of the week, some flights were taken out of the programme.

Another 19 flights have to be canceled today, a spokeswoman for the airline told Reuters. The flights affected are mainly city flights within Europe, for example to Düsseldorf, Munich, Zurich or Paris. Further adjustments cannot be ruled out. Around 100 of 700 flights had to be canceled at the weekend because employees had tested positive for the corona virus.

"But Austrian Airlines is doing everything possible to ensure the greatest possible stability of the flight schedule and, in particular, to prevent the cancellation of classic holiday flights," said the spokeswoman. It is difficult to make a forecast for the coming days. “The Austria-wide corona infections are also reflected analogously at Austrian Airlines.”

The AUA recommends all passengers to check the flight status online before making their way to the airport. Affected passengers would be rebooked on other flights if possible or compensated if necessary. According to the EU Air Passenger Rights Regulation, a flight delay of three hours or more is entitled to a compensation payment, which amounts to between two hundred and fifty and six hundred euros, depending on the distance to the destination. At the AUA, the rebookings did not always work smoothly at the weekend, according to the ORF. Long queues have formed at Vienna Airport, passengers report hours of waiting, and some only found out about the flight cancellation at the last moment.