AUA Invests € 80m in Long Distance Flights

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: July 30, 2012; 18:01 ♦ (Vindobona)

Lufthansa´s subsidiary Austrian Airlines upgrades its airplanes. Ten long distance plances will be renewed.

AUA Invests € 80m in Long Distance Flights / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Six Boeing 767 and four Boeing 777 planes should be upgraded, AUA announced. Above all, the business segment of AUA´s long distance planes will be improved substantially. The investment program should be completed in April 2013. The refurbishment takes about six weeks per plane.

According to the Austrian business magazine „trend“, AUA plans to acquire up to four Boeing 777…