Austria's top economic news - April 12

Vienna Airport served 1.565m passengers in March 2011, up by 4.9% on the year. The results were influenced by the unrest in North Africa and the natural disasters in Japan. The number of passengers towards eastern Europe grew 3.6%. The number of passengers rose 5.5% to 4.106m in the first quarter of the year.
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Atrium European Real Estate Limited plans to buy back bonds worth up to EUR 30m and issued between 2003 and 2005. The company aims to save costs related to interest rates and also to find more favourable ways of financing.
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Criminal investigators made on Tuesday further house raids related to the scandal over the Skylink terminal expansion at Vienna Airport and its ever-swelling costs. The raids were related to the buy of a stake of Vienna Airport in Flughafen Friedrichshafen GesmbH.
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Abu Dhabi's fund IPIC may buy out the stake of OMV in plastics company Borealis, Bloomberg reported. Currently there are no discussions on the matter, an OMV spokesperson, however, said. OMV owns 36% in Borealis, while IPIC controls the remainder.
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Telekom Austria will have now time until May 3 to improve its offer for 51% in Telekom Srbija. As a sole bidder, the Austrian company is offering up to EUR 950m, while the Serbian government is demanding at least EUR 1.4bn.