No-Frills FlyNiki Takes off to Bulgaria

Former Austrian Formula One champion Niki Lauda poses during the presentation of the first 190 Embraer Jet delivered to the Austrian airline Niki, at the Brazilian Aeronautic Company in May 2009. Photo by EPA/BGNES

Low-cost carrier FlyNiki, owned by former Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda, will launch regular flights from Vienna to Sofia in February 2010, reports say.

The carrier will service the flights once a day six times a week, with Saturdays being the sole exception.

The schedule and pricing were not immediately known.

FlyNiki is an airline owned and run by Niki Lauda. After being ousted from Lauda Air by boardroom politics in November 2000, in late 2003 Niki Lauda bought some planes from a German airline that had gone bankrupt and started FlyNiki.

It operates as a budget airline mainly from Germany and Austria.

Last year the company carried a total of 2.1 million passengers.

 

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