Austrian Airlines has made significant cuts across its network for the upcoming 2027 summer season, removing between thirty and ninety weekly flights from Vienna, depending on the month. The reductions will also affect several routes to markets in the former Yugoslavia. As reported earlier this week, Zagreb will be the hardest hit, with the carrier set to discontinue services to the Croatian capital altogether.
Elsewhere in Croatia, Austrian Airlines will reduce frequencies to Dubrovnik, primarily during the peak summer months of July and August, when it plans to operate eleven weekly flights, down from fifteen and sixteen respectively. In September, frequencies will decline from nine to an average of seven weekly services. On the Vienna - Split route, one weekly flight will be removed in both June and September, bringing frequencies to eleven per week during those months, while operations in July and August will remain unchanged at twenty weekly flights.
Frequencies on the Vienna - Podgorica route will be reduced from sixteen to fourteen weekly in May and June. Operations in July and August will remain unchanged at seventeen weekly flights, while September will see a reduction of two weekly rotations, from sixteen to fourteen.
Austrian Airlines will maintain the same frequencies to Skopje during the upcoming summer season. However, the carrier currently plans to reduce seat capacity on the route by approximately 15% each month. This will primarily result from the increased deployment of smaller Embraer E195 aircraft in place of Airbus A320s and A321s. The Embraer jets were used on only a handful of Skopje flights during the 2026 summer season, while they are now scheduled on around 45% of operations.
The Austrian flag carrier has also postponed the resumption of its seasonal Vienna - Ohrid service, which was introduced this year. Flights were initially scheduled to be restored on May 16 but are now set to restart on June 1. Nevertheless, this will still represent an earlier start than in 2026, when operations commenced on June 21, following a one-month delay to the original launch date.
Further network adjustments remain possible at this early stage.
BEG?
ReplyDeleteStays strong.
DeleteIf it's not mentioned there is obviously no change in frequencies... It's 18 weekly like this summer
DeleteHow many daily flights are there from BEG-VIE with OS and JU?
DeleteOS 18pw, JU 21pw
DeleteThat's a crazy amount of flights. Belgrade seems to be their #1 market.
DeleteBelgrade is a cash cow for this duopoly.
Delete^ yes while in other ex-yu markets there are hundreds of airlines flying to Vienna. What a nonsense comment.
DeleteOn most ex-Yu routes Austrian has 0 competition.
Delete@10:01. Not even close 1. Frankfurt, Zurich, Berlin, Munch and Heathrow are. But in the ex YU of course it is. Biggest city and huge diaspora.
Delete+ INI-VIE started with Air Serbia.
Deleteso, 39 flights pw in total between VIE-BEG. spread evenly, it would mean 5 to 6 daily filghts.
DeleteI am thinking this is mostly p2p traffic. What would be the main transfer hub for long-haul? FRA? IST?
Anon 10.30
DeleteThis is an ex-YU aviation blog so obviously it refers to this market. Stop trying to be toxic just because you dislike the reality.
Anon 12.07
DeleteIt's not, both Air Serbia and Austrian Airlines carry a lot of transfer passengers, each via its own hub.
@10:14 "Belgrade is a cash cow for this duopoly."
DeleteComplaining about alleged duopoly while not saying a single word about MONOPOLY Austrian has to many EX-YU destinations is a definition of hypocrisy. Poster's interests are obviously not to have competitive markets, but the pain point of Air Serbia affecting Austrian's interests on Belgrade - Vienna route. Simply put, it is someone who only wants OS monopoly.
OS decision to retire turboprop fleet comes with the price. And even worse, they’re retiring Ejets also. How can they not self destruct themselves
DeleteThey are not retiring them, they are just outsourcing E-jet flying to Air Dolomiti.
DeleteDidn't people write in the comments here how Austrian does amazing in SKP which is why Lufthansa left?
ReplyDeleteSKP just doesnt make money for legacy carriers
DeleteThe discussion was not the OS is doing amazing in SKP, rather that LH was canibalizing it.
DeleteAnd SKP makes as much money with legacy carriers as the rest of the regional airports. Size of the population being the difference.
If it is no longer cannibalised why are they reducing capacity?
DeleteThe answer is because the city is so well connected with wizzair around Europe that one-stop flights to get there are less and less needed. If wizzair wasnt present in the airport to the same degree they'd probably have more legacy airlines but overall worse direct connevtivity. Its a small market after all.
DeleteMarket is not that strong. Most passengers are gasto so they can work around W6's low number of frequencies
Delete09:04 didnt this information is for summer 2027, how many months are ahead of that do you know? Do you also know how many things could go wrong , change , update and etc before and for the summer? We talk here about how Austrian doing well now at this moment not how it will do in 2027 summer. Nobody cannot know how the summer will be. Plus as I wrote there is always changes possible. And yes there is no reduction and cuts of frequencies which is more importnant than aircarft changes, the plane could be changed in a second but the frequncies not ;)
DeleteWell the frequences could be changed too...
DeleteWell now frequencies are not changed at all
DeleteAustrian seems to be shrinking across the board
ReplyDeleteOS is always arguing they are not shrinking, they are getting rid of all E195 and taking more A320/21 in about a ratio of getting 2 Airbusses for 3 E195 or so. But they are canceling lots of Embrear routes or rotations. This must harm them massively and also needs to have a very bad impact on indirect traffic via VIE.
DeleteVIE numbers are declining and they keep on screaming about it. Let's see if something changes.
DeleteZagreb being dropped entirely while Split retains twenty weekly flights in July and August says quite a lot about where Austrian sees the money.
ReplyDeleteThe 30 EUR tax per passenger for flights to and from Austria shorter than 350km has likely contributed severely to Zagreb being dropped. Those here who would like Austrian to launch LJU can probably forget that for good.
DeleteTells us more and more people do point to point flying.
DeleteVienna-Zagreb is over 350km
DeleteIts 267km mate. By air
DeleteMeanwhile Austrian Airlines keeps on flying to places like PRG or BUD. I guess on top of everything ZAG wasn't a very lucrative destination for them.
DeletePrague frequencies have also been reduced heavily. But in Prague they don't have a local airline with which they have a codeshare and is part of the same alliance to handle the traffic.
Deleteto where do you want to codeshare in Czech??
DeleteYeah and in ZAG they have a useless OU whose first VIE flight departs after 08.00.
DeleteIt means that by time they arrive to Vienna most of the morning flights are gone. It leaves ZAG an hour late. BEG-VIE lands at around 08.00.
Also I checked the LH app and they are not selling OU flights.
What is happening with Austrian's fleet? Are they short of aircraft or is this purely a commercial decision?
ReplyDeleteLufthansa is happening.
DeleteTransitioning to all A320 fleet for short and medium haul flights. Phasing out Embraers until the end of 2027.
DeleteLH is turning OS into new SN hurting regional routs.
DeleteEventually they’ll be down to 1 route which is going to be profitable and LH will just say see, we’ve made OS profitable! We’re doing great!
DeleteThe Ohrid route must have performed reasonably well if they are bringing it back earlier than this year, even after the latest adjustment.
ReplyDeleteYes they did well from what we unnoficially heard but we still wait for official numbers and % .
DeleteIt was okay, but behind expectations. With some knowledge now of sales/demand etc it will hopefully better 27.
DeleteAustrian used to be one of the most important foreign airlines in the former Yugoslav markets. It is quite remarkable how much its position has changed over the years.
ReplyDelete+1
DeleteEurope changed. Aviation changes. Its hardly shocking. I would rather the current landscape than that of the early 2000s.
DeleteBefore the Breakup of Yugoslavia JAT was the dominant carrier, and only after that did OS start expanding eastwards.
DeleteIt may be that there is a new round of consolidation in Europe now, so let´s see how that works out.
Can´t expect things to stay the same forever I guess
That’s the problem being part of LH Group. After they left the Qualiflyer alliance with Swissair, they were actively courted by AF, but they chose LH. Big mistake. With ZRH and MUC so close, they were always going to be a secondary hub.
Deletereflection of the EU economy and whats about to transpire over the next few years
ReplyDeleteGive it a rest. Im sure the economy where you are typing from is just wonderful.
Delete(germany is expecting a plus)
Deleteexpectations and reality are 2 different things. Also not that optimistic of what is to come in terms of economy in Europe, which would definitely reflect what´s gonna happen in the aviation space. I am only curious whos gonna flip first, the legacies or the budget carriers
Deleteah dezurni negativac
DeleteAnon 10.33
DeleteWhat kind of nonsensical comment is that? So we are only allowed to criticize the economy of countries that are doing worse than we are?
It's a fact that Austria's economy is NOT doing well so there will be less demand for air travel. That's a fact.
Reflection of the EU economy? Oh my my I hope you’re not typing this from anywhere in the Balkans.
DeleteAustrian, and the EU economy, are doing SO BAD that all of the millions of ex-Yu folks who’ve left to live and work there, are now coming back! Oh, wait…
Delete+1 lol
DeleteNo but people are no longer actively moving there from our region. Austrian economy was one of the worst performing one in the EU. As for the Balkans, from what I see the Greek economy does just fine so stop being a bigot.
DeleteSJJ doing fine apparently. They should consider adding a couple of weekly BNX flights as well. There are travellers from that part of BiH who were earlier using ZAG, and would surely switch to BNX in the future. If OHD can work for OS, BNX shouldn't be a problem either.
ReplyDeleteDont you have Ryanair twice a week? Seems about right.
Deleteexcept that BNX is not really famous for summer holliday. You cant compare airports just like that
Delete@10:33 Ryanair isn't that good for transfers. People from that area of BiH used to fly to ZAG via VIE from Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux countries. It was closer for them than flying to SJJ via VIE. With ZAG now disappearing, BNX could snap up those passengers.
Deletepricaj mi pricu. BNX has Ryanair/Wizzair flights to all those countries. It had 4,798 passengers in 2010.
Deleteas If BNX is big on transfers...
You can fly Ryanair direct from Banja Luka to all the gasto places, plus you can still drive to Zagreb and take Croatia Airlines to Vienna and then connect onwards onto an Austrian flight.
Delete@12:28 Transfers through VIE, not through BNX of course.
Delete@12:39 It's far from all the gasto places. Where are Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bremen, Copenhagen/Malmo, Oslo, London, Amsterdam? Plus you also have transatlantic flights and more interesting destinations inside Europe with Austrian via VIE.
DeleteBut the fact remains the yields for austrian would be shite. Its a reality
Delete@14:34 Neither better nor worse than their other EX-YU routes. It would perform better than ZAG for sure.
DeleteNot much evidence for that. But sure.
DeleteOMO 👍
DeleteGreat info another year with Austrian serving both Skopje and Ohrid🤗
ReplyDeleteHow does OS predicted the 2027 summer, if lets say in SKP they have strong demand of bookings for July,August and September they will still send smaller Embraer than Airbus? I really dont get this :D
ReplyDeletethey just distribute the capacity they have
DeleteThe capacity as of now but not the capacity that could be added after couple of months from now or during the summer
DeleteFrom July to mid September OS plans to send mostly an A320 to SKP:
DeleteOS 761 X7 VIE SKP 1020 1150 0 28JUN27 11SEP27 320 1:30
OS 761 7 VIE SKP 1020 1150 0 04JUL27 12SEP27 E95 1:30
OS 763 D VIE SKP 2245 0015+1 0 17MAY27 21SEP27 320 1:30
So its not that bad at all the most summer timing is still mostly with A320
DeleteAmazing that OS keeps daily flights to ZAD in addition to FR flying twice a day.
ReplyDeleteYet FR don't, why be so ilimformed?
DeleteDoes someone know the numbers of Austrian to Ohrid this year how they did?? Thanks
ReplyDeleteIt was ok, but behind expectations and hardly profitable. With knowledge about demand/Sales it will be hopefully better next year.
DeleteFor first time its good try and happy to see they are coming back
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