Fly Niki to fly from Belgrade to Vienna twice a day starting 2011

The owner of Austrian low-cost airliner Fly Niki, Niki Lauda, announced today (February 2, 2010) that, due to big interest of passengers, his airplanes would be flying from Belgrade to Vienna twice a day starting the next year.

He said at the press conference at the Belgrade airport that he was very satisfied with the number of passengers on that flight and that the second daily flight would be introduced if the interest remained at the current level.

- The flight was good and the airplane landed earlier, which is a normal thing since we try to fly fast - said Lauda, a former champion of Formula 1, who flied the airplane on today's flight.

There were 38 passengers on yesterday's flight from Belgrade to Vienna, while 58 people arrived from Vienna and 45 passengers boarded the plane in Belgrade today.

Low-cost company Fly Niki established the airline between the capital cities of Austria and Serbia yesterday, and it will have six flights a week, every day except on Saturday.