The first flight on Monday of Munich as a destination. The Airline serves more than 30 destinations.
The Austrian Airlines (AUA) resumes on Monday after nearly a three-month break due to the corona current crisis and the operation. The first regular line flight in the Morning has Munich as the target.
In June, the AUA will use for now more than 30 European destinations. 1. July is the planned route, the return on the long. Up to Monday last Austrian flight was on 19. March landed in the Morning from Chicago to Vienna.
AUA-Chef Alexis von Hoensbroech, with the 600-million-Euro aid package to the airline permanently saved, as he says in the Interview with the “Standard” (weekend edition). “The AUA is saved with the money permanently. She was in front of the Corona-crisis is not a restructuring case, but for the past seven years in the profit zone.”
Turnstile remains
Now short-time work were planned for two years, as long as there can be no cancellations. “Our goal is to have 80 percent of the previous size of the company in the year 2022,” says Hoensbroech. “Since then we would from the present point of view, 1100 employees too much.” Currently, the AUA has 7000 employees. He assume that a large part of the reduction could be achieved by the year 2022 about the fluctuation.
The AUA staff will have to refrain for five years to EUR 300 million. Ground staff and cabin crew, according to the AUA in-chief to the short-time work up to 13 or 15 percent, of the Board of management on 15 per cent of the basic salary, bonuses, non-‘ll probably give it. “I’m going to dispense with more than half of my total income,” says Hoensbroech.
The customer will receive a refund of their Tickets for canceled flights. It’s going to be a “high two-digit million amount”, the service center working on high-pressure, assured the Manager. “But it will take many weeks until we have everything completed.”
“The real dividend of the AUA-salvation is the receiving of the hub Vienna,” he says. The AUA is a business hanging power of around five billion euros in the year, and were once taken as 150 million euros in the Hand. “This is not a bad Investment.”
The rescue package includes a total of 600 million euros, 150 million are a non-repayable subsidy of the Austrian state, 150 million will come from the group’s parent company Lufthansa and 300 million is a loan that is guaranteed by the Austrian state to 90 percent.
(APA)
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