The sector is held by Arkia Israeli Airlines, Austrian and El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
VIE Vienna to TLV Tel Aviv
Vienna International, Austria, to Ben Gurion International, Israel. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,361 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 31m
- Door to door
- 10h 16m
What VIE to TLV looks like
The VIE to TLV sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Vienna VIE to Tel Aviv TLV is a medium haul sector of 2,361 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,361 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 31m.
Vienna VIE is a major hub in the network held here, 200 scheduled destinations and 414.4 departures a day. Tel Aviv TLV has 110 destinations and 275.3 departures a day.
Tel Aviv is one hour ahead of Vienna all year.
The pair sits between Europe and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 66 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 TLV from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIE to TLV | 6 | 42 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, Austrian, El Al |
| TLV to VIE | 5.71 | 40 | Arkia Israeli Airlines, Austrian, El Al |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 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 82 departures a week on VIE to TLV, 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 3h 31m block time on VIE to TLV. 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 TLV in the air, estimated | 211 min | 8h 01m |
| Formalities at TLV | 90 min | 9h 31m |
| Delivery run in Tel Aviv | 45 min | 10h 16m |
| Door to door | 616 min | 10h 16m |
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 TLV is 10h 16m.
A courier who leaves Vienna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tel Aviv at about 13:31 local and at the door by 15:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tel Aviv, the last useful departure from Vienna is around 11:14 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. 75 of them join VIE to TLV.
| Connecting at | VIE to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLV, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofia SOF | 5.43 | 3.29 | 2,363 | 5h 01m |
| Bourgas BOJ | 1.29 | 3.86 | 2,395 | 5h 04m |
| Kos KGS | 2 | 1.18 | 2,414 | 5h 05m |
| Paphos PFO | 0.86 | 8.34 | 2,362 | 5h 05m |
| Larnaca LCA | 3 | 17.22 | 2,375 | 5h 06m |
| Varna VAR | 2.14 | 1.4 | 2,421 | 5h 06m |
With 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.
75 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sofia SOF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through SOF the routing covers 2,363 km against the 2,361 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 01m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bourgas BOJ at 5h 04m and Kos KGS at 5h 05m 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 Tel Aviv, Amman AMM is 109 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 Tel Aviv.
Vienna VIE, night restrictions: Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through VIE or TLV. 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 Vienna to Tel Aviv 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 TLV 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 TLV airport entry
- Hand carry into Austria
- Hand carry into Israel
- The written lane, Dubai to Vienna
- The written lane, Vienna to Bratislava
- The written lane, Vienna to Tokyo
- The route calculator
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