by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 19, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, On Board Experience |
Last month, Austrian’s female flight attendants took to the ballot box and voted on whether or not to continue the tradition of red leggings and shoes as part of the new uniform that will be introduced next year.
Well, the results are in after 4 weeks of voting and it appears that a overwhelming majority has voted to maintain the status quo. 71% percent of OS’ flight attendants took part in the poll and 70% of that group decided to continue with the current look of red leggings and red shoes.
I know many of you were waiting with bated breath on the hotly contest issue 🙂
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 18, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, First Class Terminal, Lufthansa |
In a ceremony that took place earlier this week as part of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Lufthansa Group came away with 5 Skytrax awards for a variety of categories.
Austrian took home 2 awards:
Best Business Class On Board Catering …… thanks to their popular ‘Do&Co’ catering along with on board chefs and a dedicated Viennese Coffee service on long haul flights.
‘Best Airline Staff in Europe’ ……thanks in large part to OS’ flight crews and ground agents.
Lufthansa took home 3 awards:
‘Best Transatlantic Airline’ …… due primarily to the near-complete rollout of the new business class and the introduction of Premium Economy along with several US routes being served by new 747-8i an A380 aircraft along with wide availability of inflight WiFi through FlyNet.
‘World’s Best First Class Lounge’ …… no surprise here, it’s impossible to beat Frankfurt’s First Class Terminal.
‘Best Airline In Western Europe’ ……. new aircraft along with enhanced inflight entertainment systems made it easy to capture this category.
The results were tabulated after receiving votes from over 18 million passengers in 160 countries. 200 Airlines were eligible for voting in various categories in their home markets and the markets they serve.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 3, 2015 | Austrian, Featured, Fleet Update |
AUSTRIAN Airlines has announced plans to swap aircraft types to increase capacity and to reduce the fleet’s age.
Beginning in August of this year, OS will begin receiving 17 Embraer 195 aircraft from Lufthansa Cityline who will be migrating to CRJ900s as part of the Eurowings master plan.
A future member of the Austrian fleet…..
The 17 ERJs will phase out the Fokkers currently in the fleet and will dramatically increase capacity. Each ERJ will seat 120 passengers as compared to the 80-100 passengers that each Fokker could carry.
Additionally, the 17 ERJs were manufactured between 2009 and 2012 which in essence makes these planes nearly new as far as OS is concerned. Compare that to the Fokkers who on average are 21 years old. The ERJs also come with the metric of being 17% more efficient than the Fokkers they are replacing.
According to OS, the first ERJ to be delivered in August of this year will be used to help cross-train nearly 200 OS pilots and expectations are that the first ERJ in OS colors will enter passenger service in January 2016.
