Lauda air
Posted by Admirable_Summer9256@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 43 comments

I may just be dumb but hasn’t lauda air ceased all activities ? This is at Porto,Portugal
Posted by Admirable_Summer9256@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 43 comments
I may just be dumb but hasn’t lauda air ceased all activities ? This is at Porto,Portugal
nffuture@reddit
The original "Lauda Air" merged with Austrian Airlines in 2004 and disappeard from the market soon after.
A couple years after that Niki Lauda, the founder of the first Lauda Air, founded "flyNiki", which merged with (or was sold to) Air Berlin. When Air Berlin ceased to exist in 2017 Mr. Lauda bought the remaining flyNiki parts out of Air Berlin and started over as "Laudmotion". Around 2018 the company was bought by Ryanair which now uses ist as one of its brands.
3rr0r-403@reddit
Don’t forget that the airline also changed to Lauda Europe in around 2020 or so. And it’s now based in Malta and not in Austria anymore as Laudamotion was closed and dissolved and its property changed over to Lauda Europe for Tax reasons. So only the brand remains.
GopnikBurger@reddit
And still, their base is in vienna
vegemar@reddit
Why does Ryanair keep the livery?
PotentialMidnight325@reddit
Because of the five Ryanair brands only Ryanair and Ryanair Uk fully fly the Ryanair livery. Malta Air and Buzz from Poland have their own liveries widly adopted on the Max fleet.
Although all of them fly the Ryanair schedule and under their call sign. Just the geographical areas of responsibility are divided.
HoleyShield@reddit
Can't have an Airbus with a Ryanair livery.
Admirable_Summer9256@reddit (OP)
That would be cursed
GTOdriver04@reddit
Because it’s named after Niki Lauda, one of the most legendary sportsman in recorded history.
tsrich@reddit
And it costs money to paint planes 😊
NastroAzzurro@reddit
They’re also airbus whereas Ryanair flies 737s only
vegemar@reddit
Yes but if you have to book via Ryanair then how does that factor in?
BOATS_BOATS_BOATS@reddit
Just like any other "wholly owned subsidiary" airline. Buy the ticket from FR and see "operated by" on the boarding pass
sup3r_hero@reddit
It is afaik its own entity. It only wetleases to ryanair, even tho it is owned by them. Tax shenanigans i would guess
RadlogLutar@reddit
Never ask any North Indian about this airline :)
TheSportsLorry@reddit
In this there is no North-South
Divided by language, united by Lauda 🥰
RadlogLutar@reddit
I should edit mine
akshayreads@reddit
i was looking for this comment (:
frogsexchange@reddit
Why?
SIR_DUCKOFF@reddit
It translates to dick in hindi language 🤣
SupermanFanboy@reddit
Yeah a mate of mine laughed a lot after I showed him this
FastPatience1595@reddit
Never knew ! https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22cum+lauda%22meaning+
come_sing_with_me@reddit
Bit presumptuous to assume North India only. Ask anyone in western, central, eastern India, and they’ll know it. The chances reduce in the far southern states but even there I’m sure the majority of them will know what it means.
s0ulfire@reddit
Found the North Indian 🙄
vittalgpai@reddit
Imagine Lauda airlines flew the Fokker 50
superuser726@reddit
Hahaha
probably-_-not@reddit
The brand was bought by Ryanair and operates as a subsidiary. I've flown with them.
TUR0T0RTA@reddit
I like to fly with Lauda, even if it’s a Ryanair. The cabin quality is better, they have reclining seats, the cabin crew is nicer. All in all a better deal than most of the Ryanair flights
NightElfEnjoyer@reddit
Gentlemen, a short view back to the past. Thirty years ago, Niki Lauda told us ‘take a monkey, place him into the cockpit and he is able to fly the plane.’ Thirty years later, a captain told us ‘I had to start my aircraft like a computer, it’s very complicated.’ And his first officer said that during the flight – I don’t remember what flight – he pressed the wrong button on the overhead panel. Question for you: is flying today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the panel, are pilots too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the operations? Less buttons, more? Or less and more communication with the ATC?
koinai3301@reddit
Indians in this sub sharing this post.
doctorgoulash@reddit
I flew to and from Miami on Lauda Air in mid-2001 and it continues to be one of my most memorable journeys. Everything was just immaculate. Still have the blanket they gave us on that flight.
truthisnothateful@reddit
RIP, Niki.
Dramatic_Mulberry274@reddit
Niki was an interesting fellow. Met him a couple of times.
mcneill09@reddit
He took no shit from Boeing either. Good guy.
Dramatic_Mulberry274@reddit
Latest Netflix doc on him cool
Standard-Distance-92@reddit
In some part of the world Lauda Air would mean Dick Air
Stifler6969696969@reddit
I vaguely remembered Lauda was involved in a 76 mishap in Thailand years ago. Found a very well written article by a Redditor about it, good read! Lauda 004
Bortron86@reddit
I know it's not the original Lauda Air, but I'd still love to fly with them one day just cos of my love of Niki.
manticore75@reddit
My first ever flight was in a Lauda plane, from Vienna to Paris, a few months before covid
jenkor@reddit
I have spoon from flight. Probably 20+ years old.
whiteKreuz@reddit
Not a good airline even on European budget airline standards. Feels like flying a cheap Bulgarian airline. Planes they use really dated.
DiesFuechschen@reddit
Lauda Air has ceased operations, yes. But Niki Lauda purchased another airline, renamed it Laudamotion, eventually bought his old airline Niki, which he previously sold to Air Berlin, out of bankruptcy and then sold it to Ryanair. Ryanair then closed that airline and moved operations to low-tax, low-worker-rights Malta under the name Lauda Europe.
SubjectiveAssertive@reddit
It's part of Ryanair - has been for a while, for reasons you are probably looking at a Lauda Europe aircraft (based in Malta rather than Austria)
ASolidChad@reddit
Just when i thought an airport can’t get any „Lauda“…..