is an
Airline based in
Innsbruck ,
Austria , a member of the
Austrian Airlines Group and the
Star Alliance . It is a major regional carrier operating domestic and international services. Its main base is
Innsbruck Airport (INN), with a hub at
Vienna International Airport (VIE).
The airline was established in
1978 as Aircraft Innsbruck by Gernot Langes-Swarovski and Christian Schwemberger-Swarovski. It adopted the title
Tyrolean Airways when scheduled services began on
1 April 1980 . The airline was acquired by Austrian Airlines in March
1998 . In
2003 , as part of an effort by its parent company to consolidate its brand, the fleet was rebranded as
Austrian Arrows with livery changed to match that of Austrian Airlines. Airline operations, however, continued to operate independently by Tyrolean from its Innsbruck base. It has 1,117 employees.
Austrian Arrows operates the following services (at January
2005 ):
- International scheduled destinations: Altenrhein , Amsterdam , Ankara , Athens , Baku , Barcelona , Belgrade , Berlin , Bologna , Brussels , Bucharest , Budapest , Chisinau , Cologne , Copenhagen , Dnipropetrovsk , Dresden , Düsseldorf , Florence , Frankfurt , Geneva , Gothenburg , Hamburg , Hanover , Helsinki , Istanbul , Kharkov , Kosice , Krakow , Krasnodar , Leipzig / Halle , Ljubljana , London , Luxembourg , Lviv , Lyon , Milan , Minsk , Munich , Nice , Nuremberg , Oslo , Palma ( Majorca ), Podgorica , Poznan , Prague , Pristina , Riga , Rome , Rostov , Sarajevo , Skopje , Sofia , St Petersburg , Stockholm , Strasbourg , Stuttgart , Tbilisi , Thessaloniki , Timisoara , Tirana , Tripoli , Venice , Vilnius , Warsaw , Yerevan , Zagreb and Zurich .
The Austrian Arrows fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2005):
- 4 Bombardier CRJ 100LR
- 13 Bombardier CRJ 200LR
- 12 Bombardier Dash 8 Q300
- 8 Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 (further 2 on order)
- 6 Fokker 100
- 6 Fokker 70
The average age of the Austrian Arrows fleet is 8.3 years (at April 2006)
