Tyrolean Airways

Tyrolean Airways Austrian
IATA code :	VO
ICAO code :	TYR
Call sign :	TYROLEAN
Founding:	1980
Operation stopped:	2015
Merged with:	Austrian Airlines
Seat:	Innsbruck , Austria
Turnstile :	Vienna-Schwechat
Home airport :	Innsbruck airport
Company form:	GmbH
IATA prefix code :	734
Management:	Klaus Froese, Managing Director
Alliance :	Star Alliance (via Austrian Airlines)
Frequent Flyer Program :	Miles & More
Fleet size:	see: Austrian Airlines fleet
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.tyrolean.at
Tyrolean Airways Austrian merged with Austrian Airlines in 2015 . The information in italics relates to the last status before the takeover.

former logo

The Tyrolean Airways Tiroler Luftfahrt GmbH , which until 1 July 2012, under the brand name Austrian arrows occurred was an Austrian airline based in Innsbruck and based on the Flughafen Wien-Schwechat . It was most recently a wholly owned subsidiary of Austrian Airlines and thus part of the Lufthansa Group . From July 1, 2012, Tyrolean carried out all flight operations for Austrian Airlines under the Austrian brand . With effect from April 1, 2015, Tyrolean Airways was merged with Austrian Airlines. Flight operations and employees have been transferred back to Austrian Airlines.

history

Foundation and first years

In 1978 Gernot Langes-Swarovski and Christian Schwemberger-Swarovski bought the "Aircraft Innsbruck" run by Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf and her husband Max Schuh and renamed it Tyrolean Airways in 1979. On April 1, 1980, the first scheduled flights with a 50-seat DHC-7 from Innsbruck to Vienna and Zurich began. In 1981 they joined the Austrian reservation system , which made it possible to book flights from all over the world for the first time.

The first 37-seat De Havilland DHC- 8-100 was launched on May 3, 1985. In 1988 Tyrolean was converted into a stock corporation, with 92% still held by Gernot Langes-Swarovski. Between 1987 and 1993 Tyrolean expanded its flight offer to all Austrian federal states.

From the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, Tyrolean flew a four-engine de Havilland Canada DHC-7 in scheduled service to the French airfield Courchevel , one of the most demanding and dangerous airfields in the world.

The 1990s

Austrian Airlines took a 42.85% stake in Tyrolean in 1994 and gave up its own regional subsidiary Austrian Air Service (AAS), which was integrated into Tyrolean through a transfer of operations. The remaining shares were held by Gernot Langes-Swarovski AG (42.85%) and Leipnik-Lundenburger Industrie AG (14.3%). The Austrian federal state stations were also handed over to Tyrolean step by step. The first jet aircraft entered the fleet in the form of a Fokker 70 on June 13, 1995, followed in 1996 by the Bombardier CRJ . In 1998 Tyrolean had a fleet of 31 aircraft.

In March 1998 Austrian Airlines held 100% of the share capital of Tyrolean Airways. Tyrolean Airways was thus fully taken over and a 100 percent subsidiary of Austrian Airlines. A period of intense growth followed: the fleet was quickly expanded and almost doubled in total. It peaked in 2008 with 59 aircraft.

Development since 2000

A De Havilland DHC- 8-100 operated by Tyrolean Airways

In 2000 the first De Havilland DHC- 8-400 were put into operation. Fritz Feitl left the company as a member of the board and handed over management of the company to Josef Burger and Johann Messner on January 1, 2001. Five months later, Tyrolean Airways was converted into a GmbH as part of the parent company concept. Josef Burger moved to the board of Austrian Airlines as CCO and left this position in 2007.

The parent company concept was discarded in 2002 and replaced by the Production Company Concept . This means that the airline with its autonomous flight operations only flew on behalf of the Austrian Airlines Group. In flight operations, personnel planning and management, selection and training were carried out independently; the criteria did not completely match those of the parent company. The absolute majority of all other functions - in particular commercial company functions such as marketing, sales, network planning, aircraft purchasing, kerosene purchasing and many more - were taken over by the corporate headquarters in Vienna. In the summer of 2002, the board of the Austrian Airlines Group decided, as part of a new brand strategy, to bring the Tyrolean airline closer to the group and to no longer market the flights under the Tyrolean brand in future . From then on, they were tied closer to the parent brand as Austrian arrows . The legally relevant company name Tyrolean Airways Tiroler Luftfahrt GmbH was retained. On October 1, 2002, the Rheintalflug was integrated into Tyrolean Airways.

Tyrolean Airways was one of the first regional airlines in the world to be awarded the IOSA certificate by IATA in 2005 .

In the years that followed, Austrian arrows benefited disproportionately from the strong expansion of the Austrian Airlines Group in the regional flight segment. The fleet departures at Austrian Airlines were not compensated for in Austrian flight operations but, for example, by adding the Fokker 100 to the Tyrolean fleet . The Austrian arrows fleet reached its highest level in 2008 with 59 aircraft.

In April 2006 Tyrolean had around 1,600 employees. On June 30, 2006, the then managing director Johann Messner retired. Manfred Helldoppler was appointed as his successor. The last three Fokker 70s from Austrian Airlines were moved to Tyrolean Airways by April 2007. In mid-2007 Tyrolean Airways got its own website.

Business transfers and the consequences

A Bombardier CRJ200 from Tyrolean Airways

On April 30, 2012 it was announced that Tyrolean Airways would take over the entire flight operations of the Austrian Airlines Group on July 1, 2012. In the course of this, the addition "arrows" was also given up. The entire fleet of aircraft and the workforce (around 460 pilots and 1,500 flight attendants) at Austrian Airlines changed operators and employers within the group on that day. Since then, all Austrian Airlines flights have been listed with the addition " operated by Tyrolean ", but still under OS flight numbers. As announced on October 8, 2014 - after an agreement on a new collective agreement - the entire flight operations (aircraft fleet and personnel) were transferred back to Austrian Airlines from April 1, 2015, whereby the addition " operated by Tyrolean " disappeared completely . The background to this was massive protests and lawsuits by the workforce against the transfer of operations. The transfer had previously been declared null and void by Austrian courts in two instances. In September 2014, the European Court of Justice also determined that the old collective agreement for flight personnel would continue to have an effect until a new agreement came into force, which in turn would result in additional payments amounting to millions. The final decision in the case lies with the Supreme Court. On October 31, 2014, the new and fully texted collective agreement was finally signed by the union and the Chamber of Commerce. It has been in effect for all on-board employees since December 1, 2014.

Merger with Austrian Airlines

The effects of the decision on Tyrolean Airways had not yet been clarified at the time. As early as March 2014, Managing Director Klaus Froese spoke of the possibility of completely dissolving the company. In October 2014, it was reported that the existing Innsbruck technology location could be integrated into Austrian, so that ultimately only the name would change. Austrian CEO Jaan Albrecht emphasized that he always wanted to stick to the Innsbruck location.

On December 5, 2014, it was announced that with the renewed transfer of operations on April 1, 2015, the companies Tyrolean Airways and Austrian Airlines will also merge under the Austrian Airlines brand . From this point on, not only the flight personnel, but also the station employees in the federal states and other employees in the area of ​​flight operations administration were employed at Austrian Airlines.

However, the maintenance company Tyrolean Technik at Innsbruck Airport , which is maintained by the company, was an exception . As it has a globally recognized leading position in the operation and maintenance of turboprop aircraft - especially the DHC-8 model - the location was opened on January 1st. March 2015 spun off into the separate subsidiary Tyrolean Airways Luftfahrzeuge Technik GmbH . 120 people are employed there. This is intended to protect the already established brand.

Destinations

Until July 1, 2012, Tyrolean Airways flew to numerous destinations within Austria and Europe under the brand name Austrian arrows in the route network of Austrian Airlines . From July 1, 2012, the airline took over further destinations of Austrian Airlines, the name was shortened to Austrian .

fleet

The machines - here a DHC-8-400 - now only have the Austrian logo

The addition arrows - here on a Fokker 70 - has been abandoned

→ Main article : Austrian Airlines

Before the transfer of operations, the Tyrolean Airways fleet, as of October 2011, consisted of 38 aircraft with an average age of 13.7 years. On July 1, 2012, 38 Austrian Airlines aircraft were added to the fleet; only one Boeing 777 ( OE-LPB ) remained with Austrian Airlines for traffic law reasons.

Awards

1997

• ERA Airline of the Year 1997–98 (1st place among the best regional airlines in Europe)

1999

• ATW Award - Regional Airline of the Year 1998 ( Regional Airline of the Year 1998; highest award in the industry worldwide)

2000

• Business Traveler Award for best regional airline
• ERA Airline of the Year Bronze Award 2000–01 (3rd place among the best regional airlines in Europe)

2007

• ERA Airline of the Year Silver Award 2007-08 (2nd place among the best regional airlines in Europe)

Trivia

The apnea diver Herbert Nitsch and the former ski jumper Armin Kogler were employed by Tyrolean Airways as professional pilots .

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Austrian arrows  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tyrolean Airways website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.austrianairlines.ag/Press/PressReleases/Press/2012/06/104.aspx?sc_lang=de&mode= Zonen57E10D62-182E-4A98-837E-6032A0EE881A Genealogie&fromDate=&toDate=&category = from June 29th 2012
2. ↑ A contemporary witness tells: The first flight to Courchevel on September 19, 2014
3. ↑ http://austrianaviation.net/news-regional/news-detail/daten/2012/05/01/austrian-airlines-neu-der-fahrplan.html , from May 1, 2012
4. ↑ Defeat for AUA management: The ECJ also approves the workforce from September 11, 2014
5. ↑ The new AUA-KV is signed on October 31, 2013
6. ↑ Froese: Tyrolean could be disbanded. 19th May 2014
7. ^ Austrian Airlines: Agreement on collective agreement of October 8, 2014.
8. ↑ Photo report: AUA christened the “new” OE-LGO “Innsbruck”. from October 27, 2014.
9. ^ AUA: Merger with Tyrolean in spring. dated December 5, 2014.
10. ↑ Tyrolean Airways technology reorganized on March 2nd, 2015.
11. ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Tyrolean Airways fleet (English) accessed on October 8, 2011
12. ↑ airfleets.net - Fleet age of Tyrolean Airways (English) accessed on October 8, 2011
13. ↑ Tyrolean Airways: ERA AIRLINE OF THE YEAR SILVER AWARD 2007-08  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.