Paris to Vienna is 1,043 km east and about 1 h 44 in the air, Paris Le Bourget to Vienna, normally on a light or midsize jet. Both ends are inside Schengen, so nothing official stands between the two cities. We publish no starting figure for this pair; send the dates and the passenger count and a written quotation follows inside 30 minutes, and the operations desk answers at any hour on +357 95 119759.
Under two hours across the middle of Europe, and one of the least complicated sectors we fly: no border, no slot lottery, no aircraft that cannot make the distance. The single thing worth settling in advance is the departure hour at the Vienna end of the return, where the runways are shared with a busy scheduled operation. Whole aircraft, single seats and empty legs, arranged 24/7.
REQUEST A QUOTEA classic working corridor between two capitals that do business with each other constantly. Le Bourget is the busiest business-aviation field in Europe, 55,751 movements counted by EBAA in 2023, and it takes no scheduled traffic at all – so the departure is quick by construction. Vienna is the opposite arrangement: private traffic has its own terminal and its own handling, but the runways are shared with the airlines. That distinction is worth remembering, because it is where your schedule can slip.
Vienna is one field and no argument. Paris is three, and they behave so differently that the choice is worth a minute of your time rather than a default: the wrong one costs you on the ground what the aircraft saves you in the air.
| Airport | Codes | Distance | Suits you if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paris Le Bourget | LBG / LFPB | 1,043 km | Where the leg starts, and the field every distance and time on this page is measured from. Business aviation and nothing else, no scheduled traffic, several competing handling agents, closest of the Paris airports to the centre: 55,751 business-aviation movements in 2023 (EBAA 2023). You drive to the terminal and walk to the aircraft. |
| Paris Orly | ORY / LFPO | departure alternative | Your morning starts south or south-west of Paris, where the drive across the city to Le Bourget can cost more than you save in the air. Also our fallback in a week when Le Bourget handling is genuinely committed. It is a scheduled airport, so slots and stands are shared with airline traffic. |
| Paris Charles de Gaulle | CDG / LFPG | connection only | Somebody in the party is arriving off a scheduled intercontinental flight and the walk matters more than the drive. Otherwise it gives back exactly the ground time that makes a short sector worth flying privately. |
| Vienna | VIE / LOWW | arrival | Where the leg ends, and the only field for the city. Private traffic has its own terminal and handling, so arrival is quick; the runways, however, are shared with a busy scheduled operation, which is why a departure hour at the crowded end of the morning is agreed with us in advance rather than assumed on the day. |
Airport coordinates and codes: OurAirports open dataset, retrieved 23 August 2026. Distances calculated great-circle. Movement counts: EBAA 2023.
A thousand kilometres asks nothing unusual of an aircraft, so the choice here is about the party rather than the performance. Every category below crosses it non-stop; what changes is how many of you fit, what you can bring, and what an hour and three quarters feels like.
The efficient answer for up to six. A Phenom 300 or a Citation CJ2 does Paris to Vienna non-stop with normal luggage, and over 1 h 44 the cabin is perfectly adequate rather than a compromise you notice.
See the fleet ›What we quote above six passengers, or when the luggage is bulky, or when people need to work facing each other rather than in a row. Also the better choice when the day continues somewhere further east after Vienna.
See the fleet ›A genuine economy on this distance if the schedule is relaxed, and it costs you perhaps half an hour. Worth asking about when the trip is not time-critical and the party is small.
See the fleet ›No starting figure is published for Paris to Vienna, and the reason is that the two obvious variables pull in opposite directions. The distance is long enough that the hourly rate starts to matter, and short enough that the fixed costs – minimum charge, crew day, positioning – still dominate. A single printed number would be honest for exactly one combination of aircraft and morning.
What decides your quotation, in rough order: which category of aircraft you take; where that aircraft slept the night before and where it has to be next; whether the crew can fly out and back inside one duty day; and handling and parking at both ends. Published hourly rates by aircraft class are a fair way to compare categories against each other. They are not a price for this city pair, and multiplying one by 1 h 44 gives a number no operator would sign.
Two ways the total comes down. A same-day return usually beats two one-ways, because the aircraft and crew stay with you rather than being repositioned twice. And this is a dense corridor for repositioning flights: aircraft move between Paris, southern Germany and Austria constantly, and a share of those flights carry nobody.
GET A FIRM PRICEThe demand here follows the working calendar almost exactly: March to June and September to November, heaviest early on Monday and Tuesday and again late on Thursday and Friday. August is genuinely quiet, and so is the fortnight around the turn of the year – with one sharp exception at the Vienna end.
That exception is the winter season. The ball calendar and the major conference dates concentrate demand into a handful of evenings, and on those the constraint is not the aircraft but parking and handling at Vienna. If your trip falls on one of them, book earlier than you would otherwise think necessary.
Short notice is usually fine. Same day is realistic on this corridor because the aircraft pool at Le Bourget is the deepest in Europe, and what short notice costs you is the choice of cabin rather than the flight itself.
Vienna sits where central Europe stops being western, and a great many trips carry on from it rather than turning round. Arranged together with the outbound leg, the second sector uses the aircraft and crew that are already yours.
Vienna is the natural staging point for central and eastern Europe. Tell us the second destination when you book the first and the whole trip is quoted as one rather than as two unrelated charters.
See published routes ›In winter the common shape is Vienna and then a ski field. The aircraft that brought you can take you on, and the alpine airports are short sectors from Vienna rather than expeditions.
Paris to Courchevel ›Aircraft that deliver into Vienna have to leave again, and a good proportion leave empty. If your return date can move by a day, this is where the money is.
Current empty legs ›Tell us your dates and how many of you there are. Your dedicated flight advisor will come back with aircraft options and a firm price.
All published routes are listed on the route index. Also useful: the fleet, current empty legs, jet sharing.