Vienna. Met at the private terminal and in the city centre in twenty to thirty minutes.
Vienna is one of the easiest major arrivals in Europe: a large airport close to a compact city, with a general aviation terminal that gets private passengers out quickly and a run into town that rarely goes wrong.
The airport
Vienna at a glance
- CodesVIE / LOWWVienna International Airport, at Schwechat, south east of the city.
- DistanceAbout 18 km from the centreMotorway the whole way, with the City Airport Train and S7 line alongside.
- RunwaysTwo, 3,500 m and 3,600 mNo practical limit on business jets, and the field takes wide bodies.
- Private flightsA general aviation terminal on the fieldSeparate from the passenger terminals, with its own handling and customs arrangements.
The airport serves Bratislava as well as Vienna, which is useful when a Slovak meeting is on the itinerary.
Journey times
From Vienna Airport by road
| To | Quiet roads | Busy periods |
|---|---|---|
| Ringstrasse, Opera and the Innere Stadt | 20 to 30 minutes | 30 to 50 minutes |
| Hofburg and the museum quarter | 20 to 30 minutes | 30 to 50 minutes |
| Dobling, Grinzing and the wine villages | 30 to 40 minutes | 40 to 60 minutes |
| Schonbrunn and Hietzing | 25 to 35 minutes | 35 to 55 minutes |
| Bratislava | 45 to 60 minutes | 60 to 80 minutes |
| Semmering and the Vienna Woods | 60 to 90 minutes | 75 to 110 minutes |
| Salzburg | About 3 hours | Longer in winter |
Realistic ranges. Vienna's traffic is mild by the standards of other capitals, which makes the city one of the few where a twenty minute transfer usually means twenty minutes.
Who arrives here
A diplomatic city with a small centre
Vienna hosts a large international and diplomatic community, and a great deal of the city's corporate and institutional life happens within a couple of square kilometres inside the Ring. That geography shapes the work. A Vienna day is usually several short movements between addresses that are close together, with waiting between them, rather than a handful of long runs.
For that we hold cars as directed rather than booking each leg separately. It saves argument, it reads better on an itinerary, and it means a meeting that overruns by forty minutes does not cost you a car. See hourly and as directed hire and executive roadshows.
The city also has a defined season. The ball season runs through the winter carnival weeks in January and February, and those evenings put a very large number of cars into a very small centre at the same hours. Drop points are controlled, waiting is restricted, and collections after midnight need a plan made in advance rather than a phone call on the night.
Odyssey owns its cars and employs its chauffeurs in London and Manchester, and works through a trusted global network everywhere else. In Vienna the cars are arranged through operators we know, briefed by us, with one point of contact here.
On arrival
How the meet works at Vienna
What we do as standard.
- Private arrivals met at the general aviation terminal, with the car at the aircraft where the airport permits it for your movement.
- Scheduled arrivals met inside with a name board, or collected kerbside if you prefer not to be met by name.
- Flight or tail number tracked, so a delay moves the car rather than losing it.
- Delegation arrivals split across vehicles sensibly, with a lead car and a luggage vehicle where numbers justify it.
- Evening collections from ball venues and the opera planned with a named meeting point, because the obvious doors are closed to traffic.
- Onward runs to Bratislava quoted as cross border journeys from the outset, not added later.
Onward
Vienna as a base for central Europe
Vienna sits within a straightforward drive of Bratislava and a comfortable flight of most central European capitals, which makes it a sensible base for a multi city week. Budapest and Prague are usually flown; Bratislava is always driven. For the Austrian mountains, however, Vienna is the wrong end of the country: Salzburg, Innsbruck and Munich all serve the resorts far better.
If a week mixes meetings in Vienna with a few days in the Tyrol, tell us at the planning stage. Moving the aircraft is usually cheaper in time than moving the passengers by road across Austria, and we will say so.
Onward
Where Vienna passengers go next
Request a quote
Tell us the arrival
Dates, flight or tail number, passengers, luggage and whether you want a car held for the day. We come back with a clear price. Nothing is booked or charged online.
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Questions people ask
About Vienna transfers
How long is the run into the city?
Twenty to thirty minutes outside the peaks, and half an hour to fifty minutes in them. It is one of the more reliable airport runs in Europe.
Can the car come to the aircraft?
Where the airport permits it for your movement, at the general aviation terminal. We confirm with the handling agent rather than promising in advance.
Is it better to book by the hour in Vienna?
Usually. The centre is small, the movements are short and the waiting is what you are really buying. See hourly and as directed hire.
Can you drive us to Bratislava?
Yes. Allow around an hour, and tell us at the quote stage so the journey is set up as a cross border one.
Are these your own cars?
In London and Manchester, yes, and a trusted global network covers everywhere else. In Vienna they are arranged through operators we know, and the arrangement stays ours.
