Vienna to Abu Dhabi flight

Flights from Vienna to Abu Dhabi start at €417.27 and take 9h 6m at their fastest.

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Captivating black and white cityscape of Abu Dhabi's skyline at night.

The Flights from Vienna to Abu Dhabi starts at €417.27 and takes 9h 6m door to door, run by 2 operators over 4,368 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 6mDoor to door
  • 5h 56mMoving
  • €417.27From
  • 646.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€362.40
  1. Etihad Airways EA489614:096h 14m20:23Vienna VIEAbu Dhabi AUH

Door to door 9h 24mCO2 646.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Fastest€429.66
  1. Etihad Airways EA141306:225h 56m12:18Vienna VIEAbu Dhabi AZI

Door to door 9h 6mCO2 646.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
Etihad Airways€362.409h 5m
Wizz Air Malta€364.179h 4m

The flight gets you into Abu Dhabi. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Abu Dhabi

Filter by neighborhood and by nightly price, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a cab.

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Booking window

When to book Vienna to Abu Dhabi

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €413.7390 days
  2. €287.4760 days
  3. €296.2445 days
  4. €275.3430 days
  5. €397.2121 days
  6. €449.1314 days
  7. €571.247 days
  8. €529.373 days
  9. €820.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €275.34.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 198 percent. The most expensive point is €820.83, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €483.79Sun
  2. €417.27Mon
  3. €416.14Tue
  4. €433.20Wed
  5. €576.57Thu
  6. €547.66Fri
  7. €449.13Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Vienna

Air
  • VIE

Abu Dhabi

Air
  • AUH
  • AZI
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 4,368 km against 4,241 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Bucharest, Budapest, Erbil, Ankara. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Vienna at 06:22 and the last at 14:09, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Vienna to Abu Dhabi

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi take?

The Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi takes 9h 6m door to door, of which 5h 56m is spent moving. The route runs 4,368 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.

How much does the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi cost?

The Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi starts at €417.27 for one passenger, checked on September 12, 2026. A typical fare is €399.28. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi?

2 operators run the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi: Etihad Airways, Wizz Air Malta. Between them they file around 6 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.

Which terminal does the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi use?

The Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi leaves from Vienna VIE and arrives at Abu Dhabi AZI. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi?

Fares for the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €275.34. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 198 percent, measured on September 12, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi produce?

The Flight from Vienna to Abu Dhabi produces about 646.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 4368 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Vienna to Abu Dhabi on September 12, 2026: 4368 km of route against 4241 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €417.27, and 9h 6m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Abu Dhabi is large, and the road in from AUH can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Abu Dhabi

Settled in advance, so the ride into Abu Dhabi costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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