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CERCLE DIPLOMATIQUE - issue 01/2018

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

CD is an independent and impartial magazine and is the medium of communication between foreign representatives of international and UN-organisations based in Vienna and the Austrian political classes, business, culture and tourism. CD features up-to-date information about and for the diplomatic corps, international organisations, society, politics, business, tourism, fashion and culture. Furthermore CD introduces the new ambassadors in Austria and informs about designations, awards and top-events. Interviews with leading personalities, country reports from all over the world and the presentation of Austria as a host country complement the wide range oft he magazine.

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L’AUTRICHE 60 YEARS AUSTRIAN AIRLINES<br />

Rot-weiß-rote Heckflossen am<br />

Flughafen Wien und die erste Crew<br />

im Jahr 1958.<br />

Tail fin in red-white-red at the Vienna<br />

Airport and the first crew in the year<br />

1958.<br />

1958: Noch ganz in Blau.<br />

1958: Dressed all in blue.<br />

1969: Alpiner Chic.<br />

1969: Alpine chic.<br />

1974: Dynamisch und frisch.<br />

1974: Dynamic and dewy.<br />

Sind für Austrian geflogen:<br />

DC3 und Caravelle.<br />

In the line of duty for<br />

Austrian: DC3 and Caravelle.<br />

vor allem in Ost- und Südosteuropa, wo Austrian<br />

zum führenden Carrier wurde – mit mehr Destinationen<br />

als irgendeine andere Linie. Konkurrenzunternehmen<br />

wurden übernommen. Als das Streckennetz<br />

der Austrian Airlines Group seine größte Ausdehnung<br />

hatte, reichte es bis nach Australien. Sydney<br />

und Melbourne wurden angeflogen. In jüngerer Zeit<br />

wurde die Business Class auf ein Niveau gehoben,<br />

das anderswo bloß in der First Class zu finden ist,<br />

und neulich wurde eine neue Reiseklasse, die Premium<br />

Economy, eingeführt, die bequemes Langstrecken-Reisen<br />

zu vernünftigen Preisen bieten will.<br />

So ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass Austrian Airlines<br />

ein recht sentimentale Rolle im Herzen der Österreicher<br />

spielt. Der Home Carrier! Österreichs<br />

Botschafter und Visitenkarte in der weiten Welt! Wer<br />

nach einem etwas längeren Auslandsaufenthalt in<br />

ein Flugzeug von Austrian Airlines zum Rückflug<br />

einstieg, der hatte das Gefühl, wieder „zu Hause“ zu<br />

sein, lange bevor er tatsächlich österreichischen Boden<br />

betrat. Vor allem in einer Zeit, in der es noch<br />

kein Internet gab, die Welt noch nicht homogenisiert<br />

war und Fluglinien noch nicht die Neue Sparsamkeit<br />

ausgerufen hatten. Die Walzerklänge, die den Passagier<br />

beim Einstieg begleiteten, die österreichischen<br />

Tageszeitungen, in denen man endlich wieder die<br />

Ergebnisse der Fußballligen studieren konnte, die<br />

heimischen Speisen und Weine, die Freundlichkeit<br />

und das Lächeln der Flugbegleiterinnen. The charming<br />

way to fly. We fly for your smile. The friendly<br />

airline. Endlich daheim!<br />

Gegründet wurde Austrian Airlines schon einige<br />

Monate bevor sie im März 1958 zum Erstflug abhob.<br />

Sie ist aus der Air Austria und den Austrian Airways<br />

hervorgegangen, die beide Anfang 1957 entstanden<br />

sind, die aber nie operativ tätig waren. Am 30. September<br />

1957 wurde die Austrian Airlines Österreichische<br />

Luftverkehrs Aktiengesellschaft im Großen<br />

Sitzungssaal der Creditanstalt in der Wiener Schottengasse<br />

gegründet.<br />

Heute ist Austrian Teil der Lufthansa Gruppe. Es<br />

geht ihr gut. 1958 hatte Austrian Airlines 25.567<br />

Fluggäste, im vergangenen Jahr waren es knapp 13<br />

Millionen. Sie hat einen ausgezeichneten Ruf als<br />

Qualitätsfluglinie. Sie wird mit Auszeichnungen<br />

überhäuft. Jahr für Jahr fährt sie Gewinne ein, neue<br />

Flugzeuge werden angeschafft, die Langstreckenflotte<br />

aufgestockt, neue Ziele angeflogen. Schritt für<br />

Schritt spannt sich wieder das Austrian-Airlines-<br />

Flugnetz über die Welt. Von Los Angeles bis Tokio,<br />

von Toronto bis Kapstadt, von Kuba bis zu den Seychellen.<br />

Es stimmt, was Kay Kratky, der aktuelle CEO von<br />

Austrian Airlines, neulich sagte: Seine Fluglinie ist<br />

ein „kleines österreichisches Wirtschaftswunder“.<br />

The 31 March 1958 was a grey, gloomy day.<br />

Neither winter nor spring, but something somewhere<br />

in between. It was 8:30 in the morning<br />

when a Vickers Viscount 779D took off from<br />

Vienna International Airport with several guests of<br />

honour on board. Destination: London. It went by<br />

the tag OE-LAG. The flight was a premiere: It was the<br />

first flight with the newly founded Austrian Airlines.<br />

Several first-time flights followed in the next couple<br />

of days and weeks. On 5 May to Frankfurt, on 10<br />

May to Zurich via Innsbruck and on 27 May to Paris<br />

via Stuttgart. The Vickers Viscount, a turboprop plane,<br />

had been leased. It, and the three other Vickers<br />

Viscounts, which together made up the Austrian<br />

Airlines fleet, belonged to the Norwegian company<br />

Fred Olsens Flyselskap. The pilot, Per Bergsland, was<br />

also from Norway. He was Austrian Airlines‘ first<br />

chief pilot.<br />

All of this happened exactly 60 years ago. Meanwhile,<br />

Austrian Airlines has experienced a lot. Success<br />

stories and crises, political interventions and<br />

privatisations. There were planned and cancelled fusions,<br />

takeovers and sell-offs. Alliances were made<br />

and dissolved again. There were good times, there<br />

were bad times. Planes were purchased and sold.<br />

These planes make up a who‘s who of the aviation<br />

industry: Vickers Viscount, Caravelle, Boeing, Airbus,<br />

Canadair, Fokker, Embraer. In 1969, Austrian<br />

Airlines, for the first time, flew across the Atlantic to<br />

New York. There were expansions as well as austerity<br />

measures. The fleet was broadened and then shrunk<br />

again. Pioneering work was conducted in several regions,<br />

especially in Eastern and South Eastern Euro-<br />

PHOTOS: AUSTRIAN AIRLINES<br />

pe, where Austrian became a leading carrier — with<br />

more destinations than any other carrier. Rivalling<br />

companies were acquired. When the route network<br />

of the Austrian Airlines Group saw its biggest expansion,<br />

it reached all the way to Australia. Sydney and<br />

Melbourne were served. More recently, Business<br />

Class was elevated to such a high level that it could<br />

very well compete with the First Class service of<br />

many other airlines, whilst a new travel class, Premium<br />

Economy, was introduced in order to provide<br />

long-distance flights at reasonable prices.<br />

And thus, it comes as no surprise that Austrian<br />

Airlines plays a rather sentimental role in the heart<br />

of the Austrians. The home carrier! Austria‘s ambassador<br />

and business card throughout the world! Those<br />

who step into an Austrian Airlines plane following<br />

a lengthier stay abroad will immediately feel back at<br />

home before actually stepping foot on Austrian<br />

ground. Especially at a time when there was still no<br />

Internet, the world had not been as homogenised yet<br />

and airlines did not yet put the saving of costs above<br />

everything else. The tunes of Viennese waltzes,<br />

which accompanied passengers while getting on<br />

board, the Austrian daily newspapers, where one<br />

could finally catch up on football scores, the domestic<br />

dishes and wines, the friendliness and the smiles<br />

of the stewardesses. The charming way to fly. We fly<br />

for your smile. The friendly airline. Finally, home!<br />

Austrian Airlines was founded several months<br />

before its first take-off in March 1958. It emerged<br />

from Air Austria and Austrian Airways, both of<br />

which were set up in the beginning of 1957, but never<br />

became operative. On 30 September 1957, Austrian<br />

Airlines AG was founded in the large chamber<br />

of the Creditanstalt bank at Schottengasse,<br />

Vienna.<br />

Today, Austrian is part of the Lufthansa Group.<br />

It‘s doing well. In 1958, Austrian Airlines had 25,567<br />

passengers, whereas it was almost 13 million in the<br />

last year alone. It has an excellent reputation as a<br />

quality airline. It‘s showered with awards. Year for<br />

year, it generates profits, new planes are acquired, the<br />

long-distance fleet is expanded and new destinations<br />

are served. Step by step, the Austrian Airlines network<br />

is spreading across the whole world again.<br />

From Los Angeles to Tokyo, from Toronto to Cape<br />

Town, from Cuba to the Seychelles.<br />

Kay Kratky, the current CEO of Austrian Airlines,<br />

was quite right when he recently said that his airline<br />

was a ”little Austrian economic miracle“.<br />

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