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Vienna airport. How to get. Connections by bus, train, CAT. Tickets

Vienna Airport

Wien Schwechat is an Austrian international airport, located 18 km south-east of Vienna. It is the most important airport in Austria, as well as one of the busiest in all of Europe. In 2019, before the Pandemic, over 30 million passengers passed through here! The airport is also located just over 50 km from Bratislava.

Hub of Austrian Airlines and low-cost Nik, it has two main terminals (1 and 2) and a Terminal intended exclusively for Low-Cost Airlines. It has been awarded the 4 Skytrax stars.

Vienna Airport has all the amenities; you can enjoy the wide range of gastronomic offers, or take a tour of the many shopping areas inside both terminals. There is also a room for praying.

The wifi line is available FREE throughout the complex, including the restaurants. The areas of Gate F and G, offer power outlets, and enough space to use laptops. The seating areas at gates B and C have built-in power outlets and USB charging connections to ensure power. There are also freely usable power sockets for charging mobile devices in all other areas of the airport.

Vienna Airport

Photo ©, Stanislav Doronenko

DIRECT FLIGHTS TO VIENNA AIRPORT*

ALBANIA: Kukës, Tirana.
ALGERIA: Algiers.
ARMENIA: Yerevan.
AUSTRIA: Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt.
BELGIUM: Brussels, Charleroi.
BOSNIA: Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Tuzla.
BULGARIA: Burgas, Sofia, Varna.
CANADA: Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson.
CAPE VERDE: Boa Vista, Sal.
CHINA: Beijing–Capital, Guangzhou, Shanghai–Pudong, Taipei–Taoyuan, Urumqi.
CROATIA: Dubrovnik, Pula, Split, Zadar, Zagreb.
CYPRUS: Larnaca, Paphos.
CZECH: Prague.
DENMARK: Billund, Copenhagen.
EGYPT: Cairo, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm El Sheikh.
ENGLAND: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Heathrow, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne.
ESTONIA: Tallinn.
ETHIOPIA: Addis Ababa.
FINLAND: Helsinki, Kittilä, Lappeenranta.
FRANCE: Bastia, Beauvais, Calvi, Corsica, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly.
GEORGIA: Kutaisi, Tbilisi.
GERMANY: Berlin, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart.
GREECE: Athens, Chania, Corfu, Heraklion, Kalamata, Karpathos, Kavala, Kefalonia, Kos, Mykonos, Mytilene, Patras, Preveza/Lefkada, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Thessaloniki, Volos, Zakynthos.
HUNGARY: Budapest.
ICELAND: Reykjavík–Keflávik.
INDIA: Malé, Mauritius.
IRAN: Tehran–Imam Khomeini.
IRAQ: Erbil.
IRELAND: Dublin.
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv.
ITALY: Alghero, Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Perugia, Pisa, Rimini, Rome–Fiumicino, Venice.
JAPAN: Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita.
JORDAN: Amman–Queen Alia, Aqaba.
KOSOVO: Pristina.
KUWAIT: Kuwait City.
LATVIA: Riga.
LITHUANIA: Vilnius.
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg.
MALTA: Malta.
MEXICO: Cancún.
MOLDOVA: Chișinău.
MONTENEGRO: Podgorica.
MOROCCO: Agadir, Marrakesh.
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam, Eindhoven.
NORTH MACEDONIA: Ohrid, Skopje.
NORWAY: Oslo, Sandefjord, Tromsø.
POLAND: Gdańsk, Kraków, Warsaw–Chopin, Warsaw–Modlin.
PORTUGAL: Faro, Funchal, Lisbon, Porto.
QATAR: Doha.
ROMANIA: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iași, Sibiu.
SAUDI ARABIA: Jeddah, Riyadh.
SCOTLAND: Edinburgh.
SERBIA: Belgrade, Niš.
SLOVAKIA: Košice.
SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town.
SOUTH KOREA: Seoul–Incheon.
SPAIN: Alicante, Barcelona, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Santander, Seville, Tenerife–South, Valencia, Zaragoza.
SWEDEN: Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda.
SWITZERLAND: Basel/Mulhouse, Geneva, St. Gallen/Altenrhein, Zürich.
THAILAND: Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi.
TUNISIA: Tunis.
TURKEY: Ankara, Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir, Kayseri, Samsun.
UAE: Abu Dhabi, Dubai–International.
USA: Chicago–O’Hare, Los Angeles, Newark, New York–JFK, Washington–Dulles.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT VIENNA AIRPORT – CITY

The airport is well connected by public transport with the center of the capital. The choice is quite large.

Exterior of the Vienna airport terminal

Photo ©, Alan B

SUBURBAN RAILWAY

The best and cheapest way to get to the city: just €4.50 with the S-Bahn line S7. Travel time is approximately 20 minutes. Less advertised than the CAT (see later), but extremely valid. In our opinion, the best means of connection to get to the centre. Tickets can be purchased directly at the station. Children travel for free accompanied by a paying adult

CAT

This is undoubtedly the quickest and most expensive way to reach the centre. The City Airport Train, better known by the acronym CAT, is a quick and easy train that takes just 16 minutes to reach your destination. The route is direct, without making any stops. The first departure is at 06:08 from Vienna Airport and at 05:37 from Wien Mitte. Last ride, respectively, at 11.38pm and 11.07pm. The one-way ticket costs €14.90, while the return ticket costs €24.90. Children up to 14 years travel for free. Free Wi-Fi, available in all carriages.

BUS

Three express lines (Vienna Airport Lines) connect the airport with the city, for a total of 12 stops. The VAL 1 line connects Vienna Airport with Hauptbanhof and Westbahnhof and is active all day, 24 hours a day with 30-minute frequencies. The VAL 2 line connects every half hour from Morzinplatz/Schwedenplatz to Vienna airport, from 03:30 to 23:30. The VAL 3 line is active every day from 04.58 to 19.58. It connects the airport with Donauzentrum, making stops at Kagraner Brücke, Hotel NH Danube City, Kaisermühlen/VIC (Austria Center), Krieau (Messe Wien), Stadion, Donaumarina.

A one-way ticket costs €10 for adults and €6 for children aged 6 to 14. Round trip, €17.50 for adults and €10 for children.

CONNECTIONS TO BRATISLAVA AND OTHER CITIES

Flixbus, Rejojet, Slovak Airlines offer connections to Bratislava in modern and comfortable buses at incredibly cheap rates. Buses connect Bratislava Einsteinova non-stop in 40 minutes; in 45 minutes, Bratislava Most SNP; in about an hour, the Bratislava airport.

The rides are quite frequent and the prices, on offer, start at just €5.00. The same companies allow you to reach other destinations from Vienna Airport. In less than 3 hours, for example, you can reach Budapest. There are connections with Sibiu (Romania), Wroclaw and Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana (Slovenia).

*The list is subject to change. All updated links can be found on the official website. The information contained herein is for informational purposes only. All brands and names mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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