Austrian Airlines is the international airlines of Austria . It operates scheduled services to over 130 destinations. Its main base is Vienna International Airport , with a hub at Innsbruck Airport . The sky of Central and Eastern Europe is dominated by Austrian Airlines . Austrian Airlines Group comprises of three partners: Austrian, Lauda Air and Austrian arrows.

Founded through the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways on September 30, 1957, Austrian Airlines went for it s first flight on March 18, 1958 when a Vickers Viscount 779 took off from Vienna for London. However, Austrian Airlines started its transatlantic services in the year 1969 when it flew to New York from Vienna .

Austrian Airlines serves together with their partners Lauda Air and Austrian arrows 130 destinations worldwide. Austrian Airlines has been in cooperation with Russian airline alliance AiRUnion since 19 February 2007 .

On October 25, 1997 , Austrian Airlines provided its first non-stop connection to Delhi . Austrian Airlines operated twice a week in the year 1997 using an airbus A310. This twice-weekly service has turned into daily flights with Delhi being served by a Boeing 777 in the winter. However, Mumbai got incorporated as the second Indian city in the Austrian schedule. Austrian airlines started operating five flights a week in September 2005. Around 26,000 passengers used the service to India in the first year itself and now Austrian Airlines carries over 200,000 passengers a year to India . Now reach your destination in just one click with ApnaAir.com .