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Increasing competition and pressure on costs has led to some deep restructuring of European airlines, with an attendant move to higher-capacity aircraft and absorption of many regional carriers into national carriers. In Austria, where members of the European Regions Airline Association meet this month for the group’s annual general assembly, former regional-airline Tyrolean Airways has been subsumed into flag carrier Austrian Airlines, leaving the Innsbruck-based Welcome Aviation Group (which includes Tyrol Air Ambulance) as the only airline representing the country, along with general-assembly host Salzburg Airport.