The sector is held by Air India.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DEL Delhi to VIE Vienna
Indira Gandhi International, India, to Vienna International, Austria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 5,546 km
- Block, estimated
- 7h 11m
- Door to door
- 13h 56m
What DEL to VIE looks like
The DEL to VIE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Delhi DEL to Vienna VIE is a long haul sector of 5,546 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 5,546 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 7h 11m.
Delhi DEL is a large airport in the network held here, 133 scheduled destinations and 607.8 departures a day. Vienna VIE has 200 destinations and 414.4 departures a day.
Vienna runs 4.5 hours behind of Delhi in January and 3.5 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 DEL to VIE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEL to VIE | 1 | 7 | Air India |
| VIE to DEL | 0.57 | 4 | Air India |
One carrier holds the sector, Air India, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: DEL to VIE runs about once a day, the return runs 4 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 11 departures a week on DEL 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 7h 11m block time on DEL 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 DEL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DEL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DEL to VIE in the air, estimated | 431 min | 11h 41m |
| Formalities at VIE | 90 min | 13h 11m |
| Delivery run in Vienna | 45 min | 13h 56m |
| Door to door | 836 min | 13h 56m |
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 DEL to VIE is 13h 56m.
A courier who leaves Delhi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vienna at about 11:41 local and at the door by 13:56 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vienna, the last useful departure from Delhi is around 13:04 local.
At 13h 56m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 37 of them join DEL to VIE.
| Connecting at | DEL to hub, flights a day | Hub to VIE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baku GYD | 1.14 | 0.57 | 5,566 | 9h 06m |
| Warsaw WAW | 1.02 | 7.43 | 5,811 | 9h 23m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.71 | 3.86 | 5,789 | 9h 34m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.43 | 1.14 | 6,394 | 9h 51m |
| Athens ATH | 0.59 | 5 | 6,263 | 9h 53m |
| Riyadh RUH | 3.29 | 0.86 | 6,718 | 10h 05m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DEL in the afternoon actually flies on.
37 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Baku GYD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through GYD the routing covers 5,566 km against the 5,546 km nonstop track and takes about 9h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Warsaw WAW at 9h 23m and Istanbul IST at 9h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 Delhi 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 Delhi later than about 20:49 local arrives at VIE after it has closed for the night, on the 7h 11m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through DEL 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 Delhi 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 DEL 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 DEL airport entry
- The VIE airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into Austria
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The written lane, Delhi to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
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