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Salzburg Airport delivers optimistic news. The short-time work of the 370 employees is to end at the end of March. In addition, the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings has announced that it will station a third Airbus jet in Salzburg and double the number of flights again.
Significantly more flights are to be offered as early as Easter. The booking situation is currently so good that as early as this summer you can fly to a good 70 destinations in Germany and around the Mediterranean from Salzburg. “We are very optimistic that we will be able to do without short-time work from April 1st,” said Managing Director Bettina Ganghofer on Thursday.
The important partner Eurowings alone will station a third Airbus in the city of Mozart and offer more than 50 departures per week to 15 destinations. “Salzburg is our safe base in Austria and has a lot of potential,” said Eurowings boss Jens Bischof. Around 100 employees for the cockpit and cabin will then be employed in Salzburg from the summer. Whether the third plane at Airport W .A. Mozart remains stationed, but left Bischof still open.
Application as a crew member is now possible
Salzburg Airport benefits from this as an employer after the pandemic, says pilot Stefan Beveridge, CEO of Eurowings Europe: “We currently have around 50 employees stationed in Salzburg and assume that we will increase to 90”. Applications for cockpit, cabin and ground staff are already possible.
“pent-up desire to travel”
Managing Director Ganghofer is satisfied with the winter, especially with regard to the strong Saturdays: “In incoming we are not quite at the level of 2020, we are around 80, more like 85 percent. During the week it is still very moderate. However, the ski areas are well booked and the hotels are fully booked”. The easing of the CoV regulations in many countries makes the airport boss confident. “We are starting into the future full of optimism.”
Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof spoke of a pent-up desire to travel: “The booking curve is currently going up very steeply, for Easter and summer we currently have tens of thousands of bookings every day.”
According to Bischof, Eurowings, which in addition to Salzburg and Vienna also flies to the airports of Linz, Innsbruck (only in winter), Graz and Klagenfurt, has repositioned itself during the pandemic. You want to stand out very clearly from the “very low-cost airlines”. Flights can be rebooked up to 40 minutes before departure.
Airport on the rise
Salzburg Airport delivers optimistic news. The short-time work of the 370 employees is to end at the end of March. In addition, the Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings has announced that it will station a third Airbus jet in Salzburg and double the number of flights again.