Airport News - Europe.

From: Airguide Online | Date: September 3, 2007 | Copyright information

Sep 3, 2007

Austrian Airlines

Austrian Airlines suspended its four-times-weekly Vienna-Erbil service last Friday "until further notice" in light of the Aug. 8 incident in which a Nordic Airways aircraft was fired upon in Sulaimaniya. "Our intention to reintegrate Erbil into Austrian's scheduled program as soon as the security situation improves is unbroken," CEO Alfred Oetsch said. Austrian said its Iraq service "had developed extremely positively" since laun...

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