- Title: 375 AT Vienna airport holidays
- Date: 4th July 2020
- Description:Vienna Airport has fewer passengers than usual on first day of Austrian summer holidays Today is the first day of the big summer holidays in the east of Austria and many people set off on holiday. At the Vienna Airport, this day is usually the most "frequented" of the whole year. Despite compulsory masks, lengthy check-in procedures, and various entry obstacles in the holiday destination, some 10,000 passengers left on holiday by plane today. Last year, there were still 100,000 passengers per day during the summer months. After the record year of 2019, the airport administration now needs perseverance. The Austrian Airlines are flying again - but only with 50 percent of its aircraft. Currently, the company is planning to keep its employees on short-time work until 2022. Things are also getting serious for the duty-free shops at the airport. After the lack of solvent guests from the Near and Far East, the tenants of the shops are nervous. Shotlist - VS Tower - VS Parking area Vienna Airport - VS Departure hall - SOUNDBITE (German) Julian Jäger, CEO Vienna Airport: “I think 2020 will become worldwide the worst year in the history of aviation. The situation is also difficult for us but I believe that the worst is already behind us.” - VS Check-in area - ZOOM OUT Austrian aircraft - WS taking off - SOUNDBITE (German) Tanja Gruber, PR manager Austrian Airlines: “We are very thankful for this opportunity of short-time work because it helped us very much to relieve the company in these difficult times. Corona short-time work is currently running, probably until December, then we will continue by normal short-time work until March 2022.” - VS Duty-free area - SOUNDBITE (German) Julian Jäger, CEO Vienna Airport: “On the one hand there are visibly fewer passengers going through the airport, on the other hand, we miss those passenger groups who spend particularly high amounts, the Chinese, Russians, and Arabs have always held these records and this is a lack that we feel at the airport and the shop tenants also feel it. " - VS check-in area - VOXPOP (German) Friedrich Prinz, Holiday destination Napoli: “In my opinion, it is a little more effortful but it is not so terrible.” - VOXPOP (German) Viktoria Ernst, Holiday destination Split: “It is pretty unusual to travel with the mask on, but it's all right.” - VOXPOP (German) Thomas Wally, Holiday destination Larnaca: “At my travel destination there were very few cases, that means the dangerous part is the flight and that’s where I will be careful.” - VOXPOP (German) Franziska Fraus, Holiday destination Kos: „We have booked in October and we have been waiting until now to get the permission if we can travel or not.” - 17 Austrian Airlines aircraft will remain on the ground in the next time
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:04/07/2020
- Decade: 2020s