Austrian Airlines has released its Winter 2025/26 flight schedule, highlighting expanded services during the autumn holiday period, enhanced Italian connections, and increased long-haul frequencies to popular global destinations. With the autumn holidays (27 October to 1 November) becoming a prime time for short getaways in Austria, the airline is adding 85 extra flights during this period. The focus is on sunny, family-friendly destinations such as Larnaca in Cyprus (18 additional rotations), as well as increased flights to Mallorca, Varna, Dubrovnik, Split, Catania, Rome, and Valencia.
The new schedule includes up to 980 weekly flights across 73 short- and medium-haul destinations, and 48 weekly long-haul services to ten intercontinental cities. A notable change in Italy sees Austrian Airlines shifting its Milan operations from Malpensa to the more centrally located Linate Airport starting 26 October 2025, with up to four daily flights. Flights to Rome Fiumicino will also increase to 18 times per week, enhancing connectivity with ITA Airways’ long-haul network under the Lufthansa Group.
Austrian is also resuming its popular “Coolcation” routes to Finnish Lapland, including Rovaniemi, Kittilä, and Ivalo. Inbound ski tourism is supported by the return of direct “ski flights” from Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Warsaw to Innsbruck, making Austrian slopes even more accessible to European winter sports travellers.
Long-haul highlights include up to five weekly flights to the Maldives, three to Mauritius, and up to two daily flights to Bangkok—a frequency reinstated due to high demand last winter. North America remains well-served, with up to eleven weekly flights to New York (JFK and Newark), five to Montreal, and three to Boston.
