Niki Lauda's airline to fly from Stansted airport

Airline Industry Information, Oct 12, 2004

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The new low-cost airline owned by former Formula One racing driver Niki Lauda is to launch services from the UK in November.

Lauda's new airline Niki will start services from London's Stansted airport to Vienna in Austria and will also introduce services from Stansted to Warsaw in Poland. Niki was set up in 2003 and in early 2004 sold a 24% stake to Air Berlin.

The Austrian has also taken a swipe at his competitors by saying that Niki will fly directly to where people want to go and not to airports in surrounding areas like Ryanair and easyJet, reports the Evening Standard.

Lauda lost control of Lauda Air, his first airline venture, four years ago.

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