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On 10 August 2021, ÖBB has ordered 20 additional seven-car night trains from Siemens Mobility to expand its Nightjet fleet to 33 such rakes by 2025.

On 23 February 2021, ÖBB and Siemens Mobility presented the exterior design for the new generation of the Nightjet trains. At the Siemens’s Wien works also first painted bodyshells are in final assembly.

On 27 November 2020, Alstom's Coradia iLint has completed around three months of test operation on the ÖBB regional lines.

In connection with the forthcoming replacement of RegioJet by jointly operating ZSSK and ÖBB on the Bratislava - Komárno line from 12 December 2020, the first test runs of „new“ vehicles envisaged for these services took place there.

In the second half of August 2020, a new test programe with a Vectron took place in Austria - this time with 193 780.

ODEG leases from Alpha Trains seven Class 4746.3 four-car Desiro ML EMUs for its Ostseeküste-Ost network which it operates under a public service obligation for the PTA Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Between 14 and 16 June, international passenger services from the Czech Republic in the directions to Austria and Germany were restored, this including the operation of railjet Praha - Wien - Graz services and “Berliner” Praha - Berlin - Hamburg (- Kiel) services. At the same time, this enabled start of one new direct Graz - Wien - Praha - Berlin railjet service.

On 17 April the Austrian Ministry of Transport temporarily awarded WESTbahn and ÖBB a temporary PSO contract for the Wien - Salzburg route. 

By the end of 2021, a total of 200 Desiro ML cityjets will be in service.