AUA Started Flights to Shanghai, Tokyo Will Be Removed

Lifestyle & TravelTravel ♦ Published: April 7, 2016; 19:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

The initial Austrian Airlines flight to Shanghai took off from Vienna yesterday. AUA will terminate the connection to Tokyo as of September 4 and will rather bet again on Chinese destinations. The economic slowdown of the Japanese economy made the Vienna-Tokyo route unprofitable. Instead AUA starts with five weekly flights to Shanghai on a Boeing 777.

Tokyo will be removed from the flight schedule starting on September 4, 2016 / Picture: © Wikipedia / Morio

Destinations

• Five weekly flights to Shanghai on a Boeing 777 starting today
• Frequency will be increased to daily flight service as of May 1, 2016 due to high demand
• 29 weekly flights to five Asian destinations in the current summer flight schedule
• New flight service to Hong Kong as of September 5, 2016
• Flights to Tokyo removed from the…