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Not only Austrian Airlines opened a new route from Vienna to Los Angeles on April 10 - incidentally the longest non-stop route of the Austrian Lufthansa subsidiary with a flight time of 12 hours.

Exactly one week earlier, LOT Polish Airlines launched a new non-stop service from Warsaw four times a week to L.A. with Boeing 787s. This was also advertised with the same strategy as that of Austrian Airlines, with attractive connecting flights, whether to Eastern Europe or, in the case of LOT, also to Vienna or Venice via Warsaw. And, not to be forgotten, United Airlines is launching non-stop services from Munich to San Francisco with Boeing 787-9s in May. SWISS is doing its part and increasing the capacity of its existing San Francisco flights from Zurich to the US West Coast by deploying larger aircraft with Boeing 777-300ERs, just as the Swiss have been operating to Los Angeles for months - daily. There is no mention here of all the other airlines that have been flying to L.A. or similar destinations for years. The fact is that North Atlantic traffic is increasingly suffering from overcapacity, as business to Asia is weakening for many airlines and jets are now increasingly flying elsewhere. In the case of the up to six weekly Austrian Airlines flights to Los Angeles, however, there is probably a lot to be said for their entry on the West Coast. As AUA CEO Kay Kratky recently told Connoisseur Circle, there is a very strong point-to-point traffic between the two cities. The Boeing 777 was already fully booked on the first flight, which Connoisseur Circle accompanied.

Text: Kurt Hofmann
Photos: Vienna Airport (c) Austrian Airlines / In Cabin (c) Kurt Hofmann



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