Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Laudais an Austrian former Formula One driver who was three times F1 World Champion, winning in 1975, 1977 and 1984. He is currently the only driver to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren, the sport's two most successful constructors. More recently an aviation entrepreneur, he has founded and run two airlines. He is also Bombardier Business Aircraft brand ambassador. He was also a consultant for Scuderia Ferrari and team manager of the Jaguar Formula One...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth22 February 1949
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
The guest gets at least as much service with us as with some established airline, if not even more. And at by far a favourable price. Thus the passengers remain gladly with us.
We now fly with an airbus, which has 210 seats, six times the week to Palma to the spider of the air Berlin.
The overhead must be reduced. With many airlines the sales runs naturally over travel agencies, and that means an enormous expenditure.
I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.
The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.
This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.
Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.
Sebastian [ Vettel] can also learn to be more laid-back. It's never too late to learn. He's got some way to go. He's young and will turn out well. I'm not worried about that. He'll raise the bar ever higher.
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
I always go extreme ways.
I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.