Press Review EP

I have just read an artikle in the today's online version of "austriantimes.at" and it talkes about the European Parlament election.

I thought you might be interested because most of you are already allowed to elect yourself.
Basically what it talks about are the numbers of the mandates which the different Parties got in the EU-Parlament.

The Parties which you could choose between were the Social Democrats (SPÖ), the People's Party (ÖVP), Hans-Peter Martin, the Right-Wing Freedom Party (FPÖ), the Greens (G), the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), the Austrian Communist Party (KPÖ) and the Young Liberals (JuLi)

It says that the ÖVP will get six mandates, the same as they had won in 2004. SPÖ made a loss of two mandates, so they will only get five. The list of Hans-Peter Martin wins three, which is one more than he had before. The FPÖ will have two mandates, one more than in 2004 and the Greens made a loss too. They will only have one mandate. BZÖ didn't get enough votes to be in the Parlament any more.
It is also mentioned that there are about 42,4 per cent who didn't vote anybody.

What surprised me the most was the fact that the BZÖ failed the Parlament.

In my opinion it isn't very important who won the election because it won't change anything for Austria if the one Party has more mandates than the other. If there is only Austria who says no to a new rule it won't help anything.

Here you can see the result of the election as a diagram:

Press Review British Airways

I have just read an article in the today's online version of "austriantimes.at" and it talks about a new route of British Airways.

I thought you might be interested because nearly everybody goes to holiday by plane.
Basically what it says it that British Airways are going to run a new route to Austria.The route will serve London (Gatwick) and Innsbruck.
What surprised me the most is the fact that the BA sees the Austrian market positive.
It is also mentioned that BA want to open the route despite running an expected loss of 255 Million Euros last year.

In my opinion the new route is a big risk because, as we see at the example of AUA the number ofAustrian passengers is falling.