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1. Austrian Airlines Origins

Austrian Airline genesis dates back to March 20, 1918, when the Austrian Post Office inaugurated daily scheduled courier service from Vienna to Kiev with stops in Krakow, Lwow, and Proskurow, a tour of the average step was 250 kilometers. If space had permitted, the passengers had been made. The great success, timeliness of service was then extended from Proskurow in Odessa and Vienna to Budapest. However, a flight ban, implemented at the end of the First World War had led to his termination.

When the ban was eventually lifted, then returned to Austria in the civil aviation market with the founding of the Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs AG (OELAG) May 12, 1923 with an initial investment of one million funded by the Crown Junkers , a German aircraft manufacturer (49 percent), and various Austrian shareholders (51 percent). Beginning a regular service from Munich to Vienna for two days later, he used a Junkers F.13, a single-engine low-wing monoplane which had been marked by an enclosed cockpit and the cabin and had relied on a tail wheel. OELAG eventually operated several versions of this robust, but (then) modern design, and soon had a growing demand for larger aircraft, the first having been a greater capacity, tri-motor Junkers G24 in 1927 and delivered the second was the most advanced G.31, delivered the following year. Perhaps the final design was the Junkers Ju.52/3m, a tri-engine jetliner with 18 passengers weighing a total of £ 24,000 and a cruising speed of over 150 km / h, which had joined the fleet in 1936. Most large national companies East and Western Europe had also used the type at the moment.

The following year, the road system OELAG had beamed in Athens, Belgrade, Berlin, London, Paris, Prague, Rome and Zurich, in addition to incorporating several Austrian domestic destinations, with great service every day. He eventually became the fourth largest European airline after Lufthansa, KLM and Air France, with 975,840 seats per week kilometers. Coinciding with the growth OELAG was the achievement of five Austrian airports - namely, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna.

When Austria was absorbed by the Third Reich in 1938, had been incorporated in OELAG Deutsche Luft Hansa (DLH). Nevertheless, he flew 120,000 passengers 7.5 million kilometers without fatal accident during his reign.

2. Initial growth

When the Second World War had ended, Austria, now independent, have signed the peace treaty with the four occupying powers in 1955, and again sought to enter the field of civil aviation in forming a flag carrier . Two of the national airlines have actually been proposed: Air Austria, formed by the Austrian People's Party and funded by KLM and later, Fred Olsen, a Norwegian charter airline, and Austrian Airways, formed by the Austrian Socialist Party and supported financially SAS. Neither ever flew and the two were eventually combined to September 30, 1957 to form an integrated company with an initial investment of 60 million FSU has adopted Phoenix to its prewar name Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs AG, but the English equivalent of "Austrian Airlines" was used. The airline has thus born.

Owner had included Austrian private investors, 42 per cent owned enterprises, 28 percent, SAS, 15 percent, and Fred Olsen, 15 percent. Austria has launched a regular service on March 31, 1958 after a suspension of 20 years with four Vickers Viscount V.779 leased, medium power, four-engine turboprop designed by Great Britain and first deployed on the route Vienna-Zurich London. Austria had finally returned to the sky.

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