Fewer Passengers at Austrian Airlines

TransportAirlines & Airports ♦ Published: August 9, 2012; 17:50 ♦ (Vindobona)

AUA´s capacity utilization rose substantially. Against July 2011, the number of passengers was down by 5.6%.

Fewer Passengers at Austrian Airlines / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

In July, AUA´s capacity utilization was up to 85.1%. COO Karsten Benz: “In July, we reduced the capacity and increase the productivity.” Last month, 1.11 million passengers were shipped, which is a decrease by 5.6%. Lufthansa Group announced an increase in passengers by 2.1% to 10.15 million.

In the first seven months, AUA achieved a rise in passengers, though. The number of…