The sector is held by Austrian and Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
VIE Vienna to HAM Hamburg
Vienna International, Austria, to Hamburg Airport, Germany. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 767 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 38m
- Door to door
- 8h 23m
What VIE to HAM looks like
The VIE to HAM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Vienna VIE to Hamburg HAM is a short sector of 767 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 767 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 38m.
Vienna VIE is a major hub in the network held here, 200 scheduled destinations and 414.4 departures a day. Hamburg HAM has 118 destinations and 203.6 departures a day.
Vienna and Hamburg 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 VIE to HAM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIE to HAM | 7.86 | 55 | Austrian, Eurowings |
| HAM to VIE | 7.57 | 53 | Austrian, Eurowings |
Two carriers hold the sector, Austrian and Eurowings, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 7.9 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 108 departures a week on VIE to HAM, 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 1h 38m block time on VIE to HAM. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to VIE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At VIE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| VIE to HAM in the air, estimated | 98 min | 6h 08m |
| Formalities at HAM | 90 min | 7h 38m |
| Delivery run in Hamburg | 45 min | 8h 23m |
| Door to door | 503 min | 8h 23m |
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 VIE to HAM is 8h 23m.
A courier who leaves Vienna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hamburg at about 10:38 local and at the door by 12:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hamburg, the last useful departure from Vienna is around 14:07 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. 84 of them join VIE to HAM.
| Connecting at | VIE to hub, flights a day | Hub to HAM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graz GRZ | 1 | 0.71 | 984 | 3h 17m |
| Zagreb ZAG | 2.57 | 0.57 | 1,245 | 3h 38m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 7.29 | 5.43 | 1,157 | 3h 47m |
| Budapest BUD | 3.57 | 0.86 | 1,163 | 3h 47m |
| Stuttgart STR | 3.71 | 3.43 | 1,098 | 3h 52m |
| Munich MUC | 5.71 | 16.71 | 955 | 3h 54m |
With 7.9 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.
84 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Graz GRZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through GRZ the routing covers 984 km against the 767 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 17m 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 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Zagreb ZAG at 3h 38m and Copenhagen CPH at 3h 47m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Hamburg, Bremen BRE is 103 km away by great circle and carries 31 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, so a collection in Vienna that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Hamburg.
Vienna VIE, night restrictions: Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
Hamburg HAM is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Vienna late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Hamburg HAM, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Vienna later than about 21:22 local arrives at HAM after it has closed for the night, on the 1h 38m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through VIE or HAM. 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.
- Airbus, Hamburg FinkenwerderA320 family final assembly, cabin and cargo installation. Second largest civil aviation site in the world by employment, and a permanent source of AOG and line down movements. Logistics through Hamburg HAM.
- Airbus, StadeCarbon fibre composite structures, including the A350 vertical tail plane. Composite parts are made once and cannot be substituted. Logistics through Hamburg HAM.
Plan Vienna to Hamburg 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 VIE to HAM 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 VIE airport entry
- The HAM airport entry
- Hand carry into Austria
- Hand carry into Germany
- The written lane, Dubai to Vienna
- The written lane, Vienna to Bratislava
- The written lane, Vienna to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through VIE and HAM: Hamburg to Frankfurt, Munich to Hamburg, Zurich to Hamburg, London to Hamburg, Paris to Hamburg, Amsterdam to Hamburg, Copenhagen to Hamburg, Madrid to Hamburg.