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Vienna International Airport (VIE)

Vienna International Airport (VIE, LOWW) serves Vienna, Austria. Flights leaving VIE left an average of 13.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 28th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 31.8 million passengers used it in the twelve months to July 2026, most often flying to or from Frankfurt.

Delays at VIE

Average departure delay per flight: 13.5 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in January (19.4 min) and lightest in March (8.4 min).

Average departure delay per flight from VIE, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202515.5 min12,082
September 202514.6 min11,843
October 202514.3 min11,722
November 20259.9 min9,578
December 202514.9 min9,723
January 202619.4 min8,020
February 202613.3 min7,799
March 20268.4 min9,302
April 20269.5 min9,982
May 202610.1 min10,798
June 202613.6 min11,205
July 202618.5 min11,534

Air traffic flow restrictions held 1.6% of arrivals at VIE for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of weather (87% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at VIE

31,834,143 passengers used VIE in the twelve months to July 2026, on 229,455 commercial flights, down 0% on the twelve months before.

Passengers by month at VIE, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
August 20253,393,98922,852
September 20253,149,91922,077
October 20253,065,86821,856
November 20252,391,83817,717
December 20252,511,37817,998
January 20261,878,35214,759
February 20261,903,27114,340
March 20262,250,08617,192
April 20262,571,33718,492
May 20262,741,26519,999
June 20262,840,66120,601
July 20263,136,17921,572

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from VIE

  1. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)1,033,819 passengers
  2. London Heathrow (LHR)803,962 passengers
  3. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)778,141 passengers
  4. Zurich (ZRH)750,117 passengers
  5. Barcelona (BCN)744,059 passengers
  6. Paris (CDG)721,105 passengers
  7. Berlin Brandenburg (BER)696,408 passengers
  8. Rome (FCO)614,848 passengers
  9. Hamburg (HAM)559,287 passengers
  10. Palma De Mallorca (PMI)538,571 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Vienna (VIE)?
Flights leaving VIE left an average of 13.5 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 28th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at VIE?
January 2026, when flights left an average of 19.4 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (8.4 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at VIE?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At VIE in the last year the biggest cause was weather (87% of those minutes), then air traffic control (12%).

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