LTU Austria (''LTU Billa Lufttransport Unternehmen GmbH'') was an

airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...

based in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

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. It operated charter services to destinations in the

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and

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...

. Its main base was

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History

The airline was established in 2004 by Billa, parent company of Austrian tour operator ITS-BIlla. It obtained its air operators certificate on 1 April 2004. It was wholly owned by Billa. LTU Austria has ceased operations as they have transferred their

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LTU International LTU, legally incorporated as ''LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH'', was a German leisure airline headquartered in Düsseldorf. It operated medium and long-haul routes and maintained hubs at Düsseldorf Airport, Munich Airport and Berlin Tegel Ai ...

in 2008.

Fleet

During their history, LTU Austria exclusively operated

aircraft. OE-LTU featured a fully

economy class Economy class, also called third class, coach class, steerage, or to distinguish it from the slightly more expensive premium economy class, standard economy class or budget economy class, is the lowest travel class of seating in air travel, rail ...

specification, meanwhile OE-LTV utilised a 24 seat

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cabin alongside 144 economy class seats. Following the airlines closure, the remaining aircraft in their fleet was transferred to

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References

External links

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Defunct airlines of Austria Airlines established in 2004 Airlines disestablished in 2008 2004 establishments in Austria 2008 disestablishments in Austria {{Austria-company-stub