Flights from Chiang Mai to Vientiane start at €52.64 and take 4h 50m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Chiang Mai to Vientiane starts at €52.64 and takes 4h 50m door to door, run by 3 operators over 517 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€67.99 to €171.83 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.
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Nok Air NA709807:301h08:30Chiang Mai International Airport CNXUdon Thani International Airport UTHChanges at Udon Thani, with 76 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 4h 50mCO2 95.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
| Operator | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nok Air | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
| การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power sockets, Wi-Fi |
| Lao Airlines | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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The Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane takes 4h 50m door to door, of which 1h 37m is spent moving. The route runs 517 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane starts at €52.64 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €59.43. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
3 operators run the Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane: Nok Air, การรถไฟแห่งประเทศไทย, Lao Airlines. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane leaves from Chiang Mai International Airport CNX and arrives at Vientiane Railway Station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €53.82. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 219 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane produces about 109.3 kg of CO2 per passenger over 517 km, which works out at roughly 211 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Flight from Chiang Mai to Vientiane publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 3 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 50m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
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The fare from VTE into Vientiane is set by whoever drives it.
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4h 50m
1h 37m
€67.99 to €171.83
07:30 to 07:30
2
109.3 kg
Air