Just another day in the life of a Cardinal
On the lighter side of our news coverage, Cardinal Schonborn apparently blessed an Austrian Airlines Airbus jet (pictured left) yesterday.The Airbus A340-300 was repainted "in a celebration of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Austrian Mint" and was "unveiled [in Vienna] by the country's education, culture and science minister Elisabeth Gehrer."
Cardinal Schonborn is no stranger to blessing public transportation. On June 22nd of last year he blessed the new OBB (Austrian State Railway) 1216 series of locomotive. Pictures of that event are available here and here.
UPDATE #1: Here is longer treatment of the "Vienna Philharmonic Airbus" takeoff event (that includes some general information about life in Austria). It also contains this interesting little news tidbit:
"The Airbus A340-300 OE-LAL will be used primarily on long-haul routes to Japan. On 1 March 2006, the Vienna Philharmonic will use 'its' aircraft to travel from Vienna to New York to launch its American Tour."
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