New York → Vienna flights

JFK–Vienna: Median $299, but outliers can spike to $481

Key takeaways

• $299 is the median fare — a solid anchor for your budget planning on this route.
• The middle 50% of observed fares clustered tightly between $284 and $311, a spread of just $27.
• The high end hit $481 — a 77% premium over the low of $272 — so timing still matters.
• With a 77% spread between low and high, this route carries meaningful price volatility despite a stable core.
• A 30-day snapshot sample provides reliable signal; the interquartile range is narrow enough to treat $284–$311 as a realistic target zone.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the JFK → VIE price history page.

The full picture

The JFK–Vienna fare landscape looks deceptively calm at first glance. The interquartile range — the band covering the middle half of all observed fares — runs from $284 to $311, a gap of only $27. That tightness suggests a route where base-level pricing is fairly consistent day to day. If you see anything at or below $299, you're at or better than median, and fares below $284 put you in the bottom quartile of what this dataset recorded.

The real story, however, is what happens at the extremes. The low of $272 and the high of $481 produce a spread of 77% — meaning the worst-case fare in this window was nearly double the best. That kind of range typically reflects a mix of advance-purchase inventory opening and closing, possible surge periods around holidays or events, and last-minute pricing behavior. The practical implication: the window in which you book relative to departure almost certainly matters more than any single day-of-week pattern. Getting in when the core $284–$311 inventory is available — generally several weeks before departure for transatlantic routes — is the safest strategy.

No dominant carrier surfaced clearly from this data, so carrier-specific booking tactics aren't warranted here. What the data does support is a simple threshold rule: if a fare is at or below $311, you're in the cheaper half of what this route has historically shown; if it's approaching $400 or above, you're drifting toward the expensive tail. One honest caveat: 30 daily snapshots capture one rolling window of cached fares, not a full seasonal cycle. Prices on JFK–Vienna can shift meaningfully around summer peak and holiday periods, so this data is most reliable as a benchmark for the season in which it was collected.

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