New Delhi : Austrian Airlines plans to start a five-times-a-week flight on the Vienna-Mumbai-Vienna sector from May 1 next year, airline sources said here recently. They also announced that the airline would be operating two additional flights on the Vienna-Delhi-Vienna sector from January next year.

'We will operate nine flights a week on the Vienna_Delhi-Vienna sector from January 12 next year. The two additional flights, which will be daylight flights, wil lremain in operation during the limited open sky period of the Indian Government," said an airline official. The airline has already announced that it would operate a daily service on the Vienna-Delhi-Vienna sector from November this year.

Airline officials said that the two additional flights, which will arrive in Delhi every Sunday and Wednesday, would offer convenient connections to passengers travelling to various cities in Europe.

Meanwhile, the airline has also advanced the timing of its regular flights to Delhi for a limited period of time from mid-December this year.

Later answering questions, the airline official said that the airline hoped to start operating a daily flight between Mumbai and Vienna from the winter schedule of 2006. The flights to both Mumbai and Deli are being operated under a code-share agreement with Air India.