Klagenfurt. The Lilihill Group, majority owner of Klagenfurt Airport, introduced Liliair, its new airline, on Tuesday. From April 2023, Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg will be serviced with two machines. At the same time, a Carinthia state government meeting took place on Tuesday, which decided to buy back the shares of the airport. This lasted until noon.
The managing director of the new airline is Dieter Kandlhofer, Peter Malanik is listed as senior aviation consultant. A former head of the AUA, Malanik is also head of the supervisory board of the Carinthian Airport Operating Company, Kandlhofer was secretary general of the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of Defence, which he left after the history of a barracks project at Klagenfurt airport became known. Kay Kratky, former head of the AUA and also a member of the supervisory board of Carinthia Airport, is an “advisory board” of “Lilihill Industries”.
Those responsible stressed to journalists that Lilihill will invest 27 million euros in the new airline over the next three years, that no tax money will be used and that Lilihill will assume 100 percent of the risk. A branded Bombardier CRJ900 with 90 seats has already been unveiled, and a second is to come. Up to 45 jobs will be created.
Flight operations are not carried out by Liliair itself. The partner is the European company Flite, which belongs to the North American MESA Airlines. (apa)