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JUN 07, 2004 (newstodate): Austrian Airlines has marked its 45th aniversary of its services to Eastern Europe.
As one of the first West European airlines to enter East Europe in the days of the Cold War, Austrian Airlines opened its route from to Moscow on June 5, 1959, with a transit stop at Warsaw.
-We laid the foundations of a route network stretching far into Central and Eastern Europe with our 38 destinations in the region. Our once-weekly service via Warsaw grew to become twice-daily nonstop connections, Vienna-Moscow-Vienna. The route to Moscow/Sheremetjevo is now one of our flagship services, and the Austrian Airlines Group also offers scheduled flights to a range of other cities in Russia, including St. Petersburg, Rostov on the Don and Krasnodar in the south of the country, says Josef E. Burger, Austrian Airlines CCO.
As one of the first West European airlines to enter East Europe in the days of the Cold War, Austrian Airlines opened its route from to Moscow on June 5, 1959, with a transit stop at Warsaw.
-We laid the foundations of a route network stretching far into Central and Eastern Europe with our 38 destinations in the region. Our once-weekly service via Warsaw grew to become twice-daily nonstop connections, Vienna-Moscow-Vienna. The route to Moscow/Sheremetjevo is now one of our flagship services, and the Austrian Airlines Group also offers scheduled flights to a range of other cities in Russia, including St. Petersburg, Rostov on the Don and Krasnodar in the south of the country, says Josef E. Burger, Austrian Airlines CCO.