The sector is held by Austrian and EVA Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BKK Bangkok to VIE Vienna
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand, to Vienna International, Austria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 8,451 km
- Block, estimated
- 10h 41m
- Door to door
- 17h 26m
What BKK to VIE looks like
The BKK to VIE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangkok BKK to Vienna VIE is an ultra long sector of 8,451 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 8,451 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 10h 41m.
Bangkok BKK is a large airport in the network held here, 138 scheduled destinations and 531.9 departures a day. Vienna VIE has 200 destinations and 414.4 departures a day.
Vienna runs 6 hours behind of Bangkok in January and 5 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BKK to VIE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BKK to VIE | 1.86 | 13 | Austrian, EVA Air |
| VIE to BKK | 1.71 | 12 | Austrian, EVA Air |
Two carriers hold the sector, Austrian and EVA Air, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on BKK to VIE, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 10h 41m block time on BKK to VIE. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BKK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BKK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BKK to VIE in the air, estimated | 641 min | 15h 11m |
| Formalities at VIE | 90 min | 16h 41m |
| Delivery run in Vienna | 45 min | 17h 26m |
| Door to door | 1,046 min | 17h 26m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BKK to VIE is 17h 26m.
A courier who leaves Bangkok at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vienna at about 13:41 local and at the door by 15:56 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vienna, the last useful departure from Bangkok is around 11:04 local.
At 17h 26m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 36 of them join BKK to VIE.
| Connecting at | BKK to hub, flights a day | Hub to VIE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi DEL | 10.14 | 1 | 8,495 | 12h 42m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.43 | 1.14 | 9,116 | 12h 58m |
| Istanbul IST | 4.71 | 3.86 | 8,736 | 13h 07m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 4.57 | 1.14 | 9,208 | 13h 21m |
| Riyadh RUH | 1.14 | 0.86 | 9,452 | 13h 23m |
| Doha DOH | 5.57 | 2.43 | 9,249 | 13h 24m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BKK in the afternoon actually flies on.
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Delhi DEL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DEL the routing covers 8,495 km against the 8,451 km nonstop track and takes about 12h 42m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Sharjah SHJ at 12h 58m and Istanbul IST at 13h 07m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bangkok, Bangkok DMK is 30 km away by great circle and carries 61 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Vienna, Bratislava BTS is 48 km away by great circle and carries 88 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Vienna VIE is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Bangkok late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Vienna VIE, night restrictions: Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Bangkok later than about 18:49 local arrives at VIE after it has closed for the night, on the 10h 41m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through BKK or VIE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Volkswagen, BratislavaMulti brand assembly including SUVs. Vienna is the practical long haul gate for the Bratislava plants. Logistics through Vienna VIE.
Plan Bangkok to Vienna yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BKK to VIE in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BKK airport entry
- The VIE airport entry
- Hand carry into Thailand
- Hand carry into Austria
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangkok
- The written lane, Bangkok to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Bangkok to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through BKK and VIE: Bangkok to Singapore, Bangkok to Seoul, Taipei to Bangkok, London to Bangkok, Amsterdam to Bangkok, Paris to Bangkok, Bangkok to Hong Kong, Bangkok to Shanghai.