Transatlantic route · frequency, carriers and airport records
VIE→LAX
Vienna to Los Angeles
- Flights
- 369 both ways
- Carriers
- 1
- Distance
- 6,123 mi
- Period
- July 2025 to June 2026
No public record scores Vienna to Los Angeles International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 369 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, about four departures a week in each direction, flown by Austrian. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 79.5% of all departures from Vienna leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 80.0% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 79.5% of LAX's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.
On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Vienna ranks 7th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.
Key figures
Flights
369
Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)
Carriers
1
Austrian Airlines
VIE departures on time
79.5%
All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)
LAX domestic on time
79.5%
US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures
Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 0.7 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Vienna so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from LAX ran about an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 0.97% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.
Carrier by carrier
Who flies VIE to LAX
Austrian Airlines is the only carrier the DOT report shows on VIE to LAX, with 369 flights and an average of 255 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.
| Airline | Flights | Share | Per month | Passengers / flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austrian Airlines | 369 | 100% | 31 | 255 |
DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.
Across the year
How often VIE to LAX flies through the year
The DOT's international report puts 62 flights on the pair in July 2025, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in March 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.
Flights per month, both directions
- July 202562
- August 202562
- September 202536
- October 202523
- November 202536
- December 202523
- January 20260
- February 20260
- March 20260
- April 20264
- May 202662
- June 202661
The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 369 between VIE and LAX from July 2025 to June 2026, about four departures a week in each direction, carrying 93,949 passengers. That makes it the 5th busiest of 6 US routes from Vienna and the 13th busiest of 18 European routes into LAX.
The departure airport
How Vienna is running
EUROCONTROL's figures for Vienna as a whole, every airline and every destination: 79.5% of departures and 80.0% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 95.0% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 79.4% for departures, in line with the year. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.7 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.0 over the last week.
| Window | Departures on time | Arrivals on time | Schedules operated | ATFM delay / arrival |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesterday (21 October 2026) | 83.7% | 87.5% | 96.0% | 0.0 min |
| Last 7 days | 79.4% | 81.6% | 96.9% | 0.0 min |
| Year to date | 79.5% | 80.0% | 95.0% | 0.7 min |
The arrival airport
Landing at Los Angeles International
Los Angeles International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 79.5% of its 190,107 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running about an hour late, and 0.97% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at LAX reaches a flight from VIE just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.
Domestic on time
79.5%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)
Avg delay
67 min
Delayed domestic flights only
Cancelled
0.97%
Domestic departures
190,107
Last twelve months
Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month
Your rights
EC 261/2004 on VIE to LAX
Every flight that departs Vienna falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Los Angeles International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from LAX is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 6,123 miles, 9,852 km, which puts it in the top distance band.
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What to do with this
Booking VIE to LAX
There is no grade to give VIE to LAX without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: about four departures a week in each direction, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 80% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 80% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at LAX; immigration comes before the connecting flight.
Common questions
VIE to LAX questions
How often are VIE to LAX flights delayed?
No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (79.5% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and LAX's domestic record in the DOT data (79.5% on time).
Which airlines fly VIE to LAX?
Austrian Airlines. Austrian Airlines accounted for 100% of the 369 flights the DOT counted on the pair.
Can I claim compensation for a delayed VIE to LAX flight?
Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Vienna are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from LAX is covered only on an EU carrier.
How many flights a day are there from VIE to LAX?
About four departures a week in each direction: the DOT counted 369 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 62 in July 2025 and falling to 0 in March 2026.
Related
Where to go next
- Vienna (VIE): every US route
- Los Angeles International (LAX) delay statistics
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- AMS to LAX, from Amsterdam1,110 flights
- Every Europe-to-US route and airport
Austria publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.
Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.