AustriaAustrian airlines

Austrian Airlines flies from its Vienna hub, complemented by bases of international low-cost carriers.

7 airlines

Network airlines

Scheduled airlines with a hub and connecting flights – usually on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.

Austrian Airlines

OS / AUA

Austria’s network airline with a hub in Vienna: part of the Lufthansa Group since 2009, in Star Alliance since 2000 – and in the middle of its biggest fleet overhaul in years.

Low-cost carriers

Cheap point-to-point flights, often with a single-type fleet, many bases and short turnaround times.

Level Europe

VK / FOO

Historic short-haul airline from Vienna: founded in 2017 as Anisec Luftfahrt, flying Airbus A320s and A321s under the IAG brand Level from 2018 – and insolvent in June 2020 after the COVID shutdown.

Niki

HG / NLY

Historic airline from Vienna: founded in 2003 by Niki Lauda out of Aero Lloyd Austria, closely tied to Air Berlin, flying the Airbus A320 family – and insolvent in December 2017.

Leisure airlines

Airlines focused on vacation destinations – in scheduled service and for tour operators.

Lauda Air

NG / LDA

Historic airline from Vienna: founded in 1979 by Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda, known for long-haul flights to Asia and Australia with Boeing 767s and 777s – part of Austrian from the 2000s, retired as a brand in 2013.

Regional airlines

Short routes with turboprops and regional jets, often as feeders to the big hubs.

InterSky

3L / ISK

Historic regional airline from Vorarlberg (2001–2015): headquartered in Bregenz, home airport Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, Dash 8-300 and finally ATR 72-600 – until the leasing company picked up the aircraft in November 2015.

People’s

PE / PEV

Austrian regional airline based at Switzerland’s St. Gallen-Altenrhein airfield: a single Embraer 170, the scheduled route to Vienna and holiday flights from Lake Constance.

Tyrolean Airways

VO / TYR

Historic regional airline from Innsbruck: started in 1980 with the Dash 7, grew with the Dash 8, Fokker and CRJ, an Austrian subsidiary from 1998, later Austrian Arrows – and fully merged into Austrian Airlines in 2015.

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