Condor’s first flight from Vienna took off on Friday for Palma de Mallorca with a high load factor. For summer 2022, the carrier will also offer service from Austria’s largest airport to Crete, Rhodes and Kos.
On Friday (April 8, 2022), Condor announced the start of service from Vienna Airport with the carrier’s first flight to Palma de Mallorca. This summer, the carrier will also offer flights from Vienna to the popular Greek islands of Crete, Rhodes and Kos. Friday’s flight to Palma de Mallorca had a high load factor, demonstrating pent up demand for leisure travel in the post-pandemic period. Condor will offer flights from Vienna to Palma de Mallorca four times weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays and to Heraklion and Crete three times weekly on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays. Service to Kos will operate twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays, while two weekly flights to Rhodes will be offered on Thursdays and Sundays.
In Friday’s announcement, Condor’s CEO, Ralf Teckentrup, said,
“The pent-up demand for vacation travel is huge. With our flights from Vienna, we are responding to the demand for tailor-made flights from our long-standing tour operator and travel agency partners in Austria. We are pleased to now add Vienna to our departures from Germany and Switzerland in summer 2022.”
Also commenting on the launch of service from Vienna, Flughafen Wien AG’s Management Board Member, Mag. Julian Jäger, added,
“Condor is bringing Austrian travelers back to sunny vacation destinations. The fact that Condor is returning with connections to Vienna confirms the high demand for vacation flights in the 2022 summer season. With Mallorca, Crete, Kos and Rhodes, the airline serves no less than four of the Austrians' favorite vacation islands. We warmly welcome Condor back to Vienna.”
Founded in 1956, Condor is Germany’s favorite leisure airline and serves over nine million guests annually to 90 destinations in Europe, Africa and America from nine German gateways, Zurich and Vienna. The German leisure carrier has a fleet of over 50 aircraft which are meticulously maintained to the highest safety standards by their wholly-owned subsidiary Condor Technik with facilities in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. Starting in Fall 2022, Condor will become the German launch customer for the Airbus A330neo.
Source: Condor