For several days, major European airlines have been struggling with staff shortages, primarily due to Covid sick leave. Several flights to and from Vienna Schwechat Airport have been canceled over the past few days.

This is also the case on Saturday. Both Austrian Airlines AUA has 10 return destinations that had to be canceled today Saturday – out of 360 flights. Yesterday there were 7 on Friday and there will be 7 tomorrow on Sunday, a spokesman told KURIER. The situation is getting better and better, according to the spokesperson, and sick leave is decreasing.

Today AUA has not canceled any holiday flights, only city flights for example Skopje, Hanover, Sofia, Stuttgart And Milan.

Vienna-Schwechat Airport has only “very isolated” adjustments to flight operations today, an airport spokesperson confirmed upon request by KURIER. During the morning peak, operations went well, with no long wait times and only a “few minutes” wait at security checkpoints. The start of the holiday season went “well”.

Apart from AUA flights, there is a rotation today, which means a return flight KLM Canceled from Amsterdam.

You can find an overview of the status of flights Here.

Other airlines

Incidentally, getting information from other airlines is not that easy.

In Irish Ryanair Journalists can only contact the Press Office at Head Office through e-mail. However, according to the information on the website, it can be reached only on working days.

It is similar to the Hungarian language Wizz Air. A generic email address of a PR agency is provided here as the sole source of information for inquiries from Austria.

in Eurowings Airline A spokesman explained following the request that all Eurowings flights from “German bases” to Vienna today “conducted as planned”. Eurowings does not have its own base in Vienna-Schwechat.