The airline also offers a "Vienna coffee house in the air" and one quarter of flight attendants are trained sommeliers to guide passengers through the extensive wine list.
As far as it can be traced back, a Ukrainian war hero named Yuri Kulczycki brewed the first cup of coffee in Vienna sometime soon after the Battle for Vienna in 1683, in a place called Under the Blue Bottle.
Having lost our taste for grungy youth hostels, we had rented an apartment for our visit, during which we sampled Vienna's pastries (delicious), coffee (tasty) and opera (boring, at least to us philistines).
Kulczycki was a Cossack (a mounted soldier) with a quirky moustache who came to Vienna to trade after years on the battlefield and in captivity in Turkey, which is where he discovered the coffee house experience he would bring to Europe and improve upon.