Austrian Airlines on Monday announced a new connection between Mumbai and Vienna from May next year with five direct services a week and said it would add two more flights from Delhi under the 'open sky' policy.
Claiming that its Delhi-Vienna flight was experiencing a strong load factor of 80 per cent, Austrian Airlines Group CEO Vagn Soerensen said the company expected 'a similarly high levels of demand for our new programme to Mumbai.'
"If the levels of demand justify such a move, we expect to be able to expand our service to Mumbai to one flight a day from 2005-06 winter onwards," he said in a media release.
The long-haul Boeing 767 would be operated on this route.
The airline's Manager (India) Bernhard Baeck said two additional flights would be mounted from Delhi to Vienna under the 'open sky' policy from January and the flights would be operated with Airbus A-330 or 340.
The Civil Aviation Ministry had recently granted permission to the Austrian Airlines Group to mount the new direct services to Mumbai.
