More and more airlines are resuming their flights from Vienna-Schwechat. Numerous shops and lounges will open again on Monday.

At Vienna Airport, life is slowly but surely returning as more and more airlines are resuming their offers. Austrian Airlines will be serving some routes again on Monday. Lauda and Level want to follow suit at the beginning of June. Wizzair has been flying again since the beginning of May 2020.

“Aviation is slowly but surely returning. Numerous airlines have announced that they will resume scheduled flights from mid-June and in the weeks thereafter. This is very gratifying and a small but important step in overcoming this crisis, which is unique in the history of aviation worldwide, ”said Julian Jäger, CEO of Flughafen Wien AG.

From mid-June, Austrian Airlines will again be serving over 20 destinations across Europe and will then gradually add more destinations to the route network. In addition, Aegean, Air France, Brussels, Croatia Airlines, Ethiopian, Emirates, Luxair, Pegasus Airlines, Peoples, Sunexpress, Tarom and Turkish Airlines start with passenger flights to and from Vienna this month. Lufthansa, Eurowings, Qatar and KLM are also taking on other scheduled flights from airlines that have flown throughout the crisis, and Air Baltic, Air Serbia, Bulgaria Air, Swiss and Wizz Air are also expanding their range of flights. Wizz Air has been flying to Bremen, Tel Aviv, Tuzla, and Cologne since May and is taking on numerous other and new routes in June and July, such as Brussels, Tallinn, Rhodes and Marrakech. Eurowings already serves Düsseldorf and Hamburg and is expanding to Cologne and Stuttgart in June; Lufthansa has been serving Munich again since June, in addition to Frankfurt. Emirates will also resume the daily Vienna-Dubai connection on June 15th.

Further route recordings are also planned for July: Austrian Airlines will start its long-haul connections to New York and Bangkok on July 1, 2020, as well as charter flights to popular Greek holiday destinations. Level and Lauda will start scheduled flight operations at this time and Easyjet plans to resume individual connections towards the end of July. For July, Aer Lingus, Air Malta, All Nippon Airlines, Egyptair, El Al, Finnair, flyEgypt, Georgian Airways and Korean Air have announced the resumption of their scheduled connections.

“The gratifying resumption of flight operations also shows how right and necessary it is to rescue the AUA through state aid and to maintain the Lauda base in Vienna, because tourism and business can only build on an increasing number of flights by maintaining the airline structures. However, the development will only take place very slowly, which is why it will be necessary to extend short-time working beyond September in order to prevent the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in the aviation sector, ”said Günther Ofner, CEO of Flughafen Wien AG.

From June 15, 2020, the shops and restaurants in Terminal 3 will gradually reopen. The lounges should also be available again in compliance with official requirements. If the number of passengers increases, the other terminals will also be reactivated at short notice, according to Flughafen Wien AG in a broadcast.

Check-in, boarding and information counters are equipped with Plexiglas protection, and numerous hand disinfection stands are set up throughout the terminal area. In the case of bus handling, the number of passengers per bus is limited in order to enable a sufficient safety distance to be maintained in the bus.