Austrian Airlines Records High Losses

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: January 10, 2012; 13:32 ♦ (Vindobona)

Against previous expectations, the Austrian subsidiary of Lufthansa could not improve its results in 2011 compared to 2010.

Austrian Airlines Records High Losses / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Austrian Airlines sees itself forced do sharpen its austerity package again. The restructuring aims were not reached in 2011, expected losses total € 64m. As a result, the result of 2010 could not be improved. Initially, AUA´s management planned to record operating profits.

Now, under new management of CEO Jaan Albrecht, the austerity measures will be sharpened. In 2011,…