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Austrian Airlines has signed a wet-lease agreement with Sweden’s Braathens Regional Airlines (BRA) for two ATR72-600 aircraft. The 72-seat turboprops will be used on select flights in lieu of the Embraer E195 jet including on services from Vienna to both Belgrade and Zagreb this coming summer season. As of April, Austrian’s daily OS737/738 Belgrade flight will be operated by the ATR, while all remaining services will continue to be maintained by the E195s. On the other hand, Austrian’s Zagreb flights on Mondays (OS681/682), Saturdays and Sundays (OS683/684) will be served by the ATR72, while the rest will run with the E195s. Austrian Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer, Michael Trestl, said, “On some regional routes, the demand has not fully returned after the pandemic. To continue connecting these routes to our Vienna hub in the future, we need adjusted capacity structures. I am pleased to have found a dedicated partner in Braathens Regional Airlines in this challenging segment”. Austrian Airlines will continue to offer both business and economy class on the wet-leased ATRs. A wet-lease arrangement involves the lessor providing the aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance for the aircraft for the duration of the contract. Other destinations which will see the deployment of ATRs within Austrian’s network include Bologna, Graz, Klagenfurt, Košice, Leipzig and Warsaw.
This would be perfect for Ljubljana!
ReplyDeleteLjubljana can start dreaming again about Vienna route! New round of subsidies is out and is ending in a week, so maybe...? I really hope it happens - distance between Zagreb and Vienna and Ljubljana and Vienna is similar if not a bit bigger too!
ReplyDeleteThese two ATRs are fully deployed this summer. There isn't any room for additional destinations...
DeleteAustrian actually held meetings about the LJU connectivity a few weeks ago according to ERAR
DeleteAnn, could as well apply for the winter schedule...
DeleteWho is Ann?
DeleteShort for Anonymous
DeleteIs there really demand for OS to start these flights? Any addition will be great for any airport in ex-yu but is there demand?
DeleteAnn Boleyn, short Ann. Not analmous.
DeleteIt's Anne Boleyn though.
DeleteShe's losing her head over this news.
DeleteJU and OS switched their BEG flight plans lol; JU is upgrading the flights from ATRs to Ejets, whilst OS is downgrading them from Ejets to ATRs
ReplyDeleteWell, OS will still continue to operate with the E-Jets in BEG, just with ATRs aswell, just like what the article says.
DeleteAustrian fatal mistake was getting Dashes out of service.
ReplyDeleteCroatia is doing the same mistake, the only difference is they don't have MamaLufti to cover the loses
Very true. Those Dashes would serve OS well for many more years... ERJ is great but not always on all routes. Same goes for OU and their future A220s...
DeleteSure. Thats why there were 18 Dashes, and now they are taking 2 ATRs.
DeleteWell, in short, Dash costs a fortune to maintain when it passes 40000 FH, and that is the reason both AUA and CTN are willing to let them go easily. CTN is on the edge of that now with 2500 FH per year. When AUA made it with their first Q400’s, they have sent them to ATB in BTS(not a good facility, but cheap), where manhour cost less, but wven that did not work, and after that, phase out have happened. I have worked on Q400 in CTN, and I have an idea why it costs so much to operate, it is horriblly unreliable if operator do not include a lot of preventive maintenance tasks, which CTN did.
DeleteSame story was in Aegean. They got rid off all of their Dashes and replaced them with ATR 72.
DeleteFinally someone who knows what they're talking about instead of the typical reactionary bs we read here all the time.
DeleteGuys - Austrian does have a need for turboprops, but in a number that cannot make it commercially viable to have them integrate into their fleet. (OS needs maybe 2 to 4 props realistically). That's why they are organising a wetlease for just 2 units.
Delete"Analitičar" ponovo na aparatima...
ReplyDeleteWhy?
DeleteA joke of an airline similar to LH, Discover, Miscover, Eurowings, Mirowings....then "My Austrian" servus, what is wrong with this "group"? Why did they get rid of the the Dashes and find a replacemenet especially for routes with thinner demand? Who knows how their 787 service wil be. They might charge you for the juice or cups. OS became a LCC.
ReplyDeleteOS is not bad at ALL long haul.
DeleteAgreed, OS is one of the best choices (imho after WK) in the LH group, usually.
DeleteI also find it normal business practice - in such a large group - to have various AOCs, airlines/brands that fit different markets and customer segments.
@11:57 True. OS premium economy is affordable and v good. People can hate it all they want, probably JU fans hating on OS. OS is better than JU even from Belgrade (punctual at least)
DeleteWhat are you going on about? JU to VIE doesn't see any major delays. Stop spreading disinformation.
Delete@08:01 JU to VIE is always delayed, go check lol
DeleteSo basically Austrian Airlines is charging almost twice more than Air Serbia and downgrading to slow airplanes and Air Serbia vice versa. How greedy.
ReplyDeleteThey are at least ALWAYS on time compared to Air Serbia. lol.
DeleteGreedy? JU is delaying flights almost 10x more than OS on this route. OS - on time, no issues ever. Also, JU sells a few tickets cheap, then they bang the price up while OS is always at cca 140 EUR
DeleteAir Serbia JU600 BEG-VIE
DeleteScheduled/Actual departure
09.02 - 07.45/ 07.43
08.02 - 07.45/07.51
07.02 - 07.45/07.50
06.02 - 07.45/08.04
05.02 - 07.45/07.47
04.02 - 07.45/07.48
03.02 - 07.45/ 07.55
02.02 - 07.45/ 07.59
01.02 - 07.45/08.07
So what delays are you speaking of exactly here? Only flight which was somewhat delayed took place on January 30th when instead of 07.45 the flight left at 08.26 and it arrived to Vienna at 09.40 instead of 09.15. All other flights listed above arrived ahead of schedule.
So please enlighten us about these JU delays to Vienna.
Wow, last 5 days they are on time and that's good? They were delayed for the last YEAR
DeleteSource or it did not happen. I listed flights from 09.0 all the way to mid January with only the flight on January 30th being somewhat delayed. You are just making things up because you have a pathological hatred of JU.
DeleteAlso from 09.02 to 01.02 is nine days, not five. Learn to count.
DeleteI'd love to see OS start KVO flights with ATRs, opening up thr entire WEurope network via the best transfer airport.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a shitty downgrade. From a jet to shaky Atr
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy people in 2024 are still engaging this myth of turboprops. Modern ATR are not far off the comfort of a jet
DeleteComfort, maybe, but turbulence my friend? You feel literally everything
Delete@14:04 As you do on any narrowbody lol, esp Embraer.
DeleteAs someone who travels at least once a month, I can tell you that I avoid ATRs even though I know they are safe and economical cute aircraft. They cannot compare to Embraers, Embraer being the superior one (especially up front). Yes, it's a small narrowbody jet but flies faster and higher. ATR makes you feel like your riding a bus if it's a bit cloudy and no matter how improved -600 is, it's still a turboprop, there still that annoying prop hum (quieter but it's there) and I have no wish to be on it for longer than 30 minutes.
DeleteI'm surprised by the choice of operator. Wetleasing a few ATRs make sense for OS, but from an operator in expensive Sweden, far away from the VIE base? That's a long way to position in crew.
ReplyDeleteFine, maybe BRA had the cheapest offer, but if that's the case, can you trust that they can afford to deliver at that price? BRA is currently going through bankruptcy restructuring in Sweden, which seems to be caused in part by them having moved into Airbus charter business where they sold themselves too cheap, likely because of lack of experience in that field. It doesn't seem that they have experience in ATR ACMI either, so I would be worried about the choice if I were OS.
Maybe they are just giving it a try for one summer season with BRA and if it is successful, they will go for someone like Xfly long-term, assuming that their financial/ownership situation will be resolved by then?
Good point.
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