The Irish Ryanair Group is already working intensively on the flight schedule from Vienna. Changes can already be seen on many routes. Malta Air, Buzz and Ryanair are now used as wetlease partners under the flight numbers of the subsidiary Lauda, ​​which announced almost all Austrian employees to terminate on Friday. It is unclear whether there will be a change in flight numbers in the long term.

It can also be seen that the aircraft orbit was reversed on many routes. In the future, Palma de Mallorca will no longer be served by planes stationed in Vienna, but Ryanair will serve this route from the Mediterranean island. The same applies to Luqa, for example, except that Malta Air planes are used here. A novelty from Vienna is that there will also be “real” Malta Air flights, because for example to Dortmund and Rimini the offer is at least partially loaded under AL flight numbers, i.e. Malta Air. Last week, aircraft of the type A320 were stored in the systems on such routes, but now Airbus A320s appear. The "turning around" of the routes can already be seen on almost all routes on which Ryanair, Malta Air or Buzz have a base on the "other side". Where this is not the case, Boeing 737-800s operated by Ryanair are on deposit. Examples are Tel Aviv and Beirut. The offer is currently being sold as Lauda, ​​operated by Ryanair or Malta Air.

The route to Warsaw-Modlin is a special case. This is offered under the flight numbers of Ryanair and Buzz. Lauda aircraft were never planned on this route, but the route was marketed in media releases as the “new Lauda route”.

The upcoming upheavals in the Ryanair Group's flight offer from Vienna are also having an impact on various routes. For example, Stuttgart and Beirut will not be resumed at the beginning of July, but can only be booked again in August 2020. Stuttgart should be interesting insofar as there is a Lauda base there. The developments over the next few weeks will then show whether this route will be discontinued, whether the route will be served by the Lauda base in Stuttgart or whether Ryanair, Buzz or Malta Air will be used.

There was also pressure at the Ryanair base in Vienna

Although the Lauda planes are to be flown to the bases in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Palma de Mallorca, significant changes are pending. In an existing internal circular, there is also talk of the possibility that Lauda could not survive the Corona crisis. If this occurs, it would have massive effects on the employees in Spain and Germany. The option is currently being examined that Lauda could only operate as a pure ACMI operator for the Ryanair group sisters in the future. The Polish airline Buzz is already doing something similar.

Ryanair repeatedly emphasized that the presence in Vienna will remain and CEO Michael O'Leary even announced a much more aggressive expansion, but almost unnoticed by the attention that Lauda has drawn in recent days, it also came to the Ryanair DAC -Base Vienna too hard pressure. Within a short period of time, the staff employed by a temporary employment agency were urged to sign a new employment contract that provided for up to 20 percent less wages. According to reports, it was threatened that if the contract was not signed, the employment relationship would not be continued and the sister company Malta Air could take over all flights.