The sector is held by Austrian.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PRG Prague to VIE Vienna
Vaclav Havel Airport, Czechia, to Vienna International, Austria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 278 km
- Block, estimated
- 55 min
- Door to door
- 7h 40m
What PRG to VIE looks like
The PRG to VIE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Prague PRG to Vienna VIE is a short sector of 278 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 278 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 55 min.
Prague PRG is a major hub in the network held here, 191 scheduled destinations and 251.7 departures a day. Vienna VIE has 200 destinations and 414.4 departures a day.
Prague and Vienna keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on PRG to VIE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRG to VIE | 3.57 | 25 | Austrian |
| VIE to PRG | 3.57 | 25 | Austrian |
One carrier holds the sector, Austrian, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.6 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 50 departures a week on PRG 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 55 min block time on PRG 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 PRG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PRG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PRG to VIE in the air, estimated | 55 min | 5h 25m |
| Formalities at VIE | 90 min | 6h 55m |
| Delivery run in Vienna | 45 min | 7h 40m |
| Door to door | 460 min | 7h 40m |
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 PRG to VIE is 7h 40m.
A courier who leaves Prague at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vienna at about 09:55 local and at the door by 12:10 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vienna, the last useful departure from Prague is around 14:50 local.
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. 108 of them join PRG to VIE.
| Connecting at | PRG to hub, flights a day | Hub to VIE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budapest BUD | 0.86 | 4 | 685 | 3h 16m |
| Krakow KRK | 0.57 | 2 | 714 | 3h 18m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 5.71 | 620 | 3h 24m |
| Warsaw WAW | 5 | 7.43 | 1,070 | 3h 49m |
| Split SPU | 1.43 | 3.29 | 1,255 | 3h 51m |
| Bergamo BGY | 2.57 | 2.29 | 1,186 | 4h 00m |
With 3.6 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
108 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Budapest BUD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through BUD the routing covers 685 km against the 278 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 16m 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 21m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Krakow KRK at 3h 18m and Munich MUC at 3h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 278 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 21m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Prague, Leipzig LEJ is 205 km away by great circle and carries 85 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 Prague 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 Prague later than about 22:35 local arrives at VIE after it has closed for the night, on the 55 min block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through PRG or VIE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Skoda, Mlada BoleslavAssembly and component production. An hour from Prague, and Prague is the gate. Logistics through Prague PRG.
- Volkswagen, BratislavaMulti brand assembly including SUVs. Vienna is the practical long haul gate for the Bratislava plants. Logistics through Vienna VIE.
Plan Prague 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 PRG 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 PRG airport entry
- The VIE airport entry
- Hand carry into Czechia
- Hand carry into Austria
- The written lane, Sharjah to Prague
- The written lane, Dubai to Vienna
- The written lane, Vienna to Bratislava
- The route calculator
More pairs through PRG and VIE: Frankfurt to Prague, Amsterdam to Prague, Paris to Prague, London to Prague, Copenhagen to Prague, Madrid to Prague, Munich to Prague, Zurich to Prague.