Austrian Airlines has begun to phase out its Q400 fleet

Austrian Airlines has begun phasing out the eighteen Bombardier Q400s in its fleet. The Canadian turboprops will be replaced by ten Airbus A320s. At the beginning of this year, the Lufthansa Group subsidiary airline announced that it would retire its Bombardier Q400 fleet by 2021 and replace it with Airbus A320s. The turboprops with registrations OE-LGD and OE-LGE were already stored. The Q400s of Austrian are 15 years old on average. In July, Austrian Airlines has signed deals to take over two… (www.airlinerwatch.com) Plus d'info...