Los Angeles → Vienna flights

LAX–VIE: median $366, but a wide spread rewards patience

Key takeaways

• Median fare is $366, with most observed prices clustering between $279 and $379 (p25–p75).
• Bottom quartile fares sit at $279, suggesting real savings exist for flexible travelers.
• High outlier of $597 shows this route can spike well above typical pricing — timing matters.
• Spread of 114% is wide, meaning price-watching is likely to pay off more than on routes with tighter ranges.
• Sample size is thin (12 days) — treat these as directional, not definitive, patterns.

30-day price trend

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

The full picture

The data shows a median fare of $366 for LAX–VIE, but the range tells the more useful story: a $279 low against a $597 high is a 114% spread, which is unusually wide. That gap suggests this route isn't priced consistently — some snapshots caught fares near the bottom quartile ($279), while others caught outlier spikes well above $500. For travelers, this means the sticker price you see on any given day may not reflect what's typically available, so it's worth checking fares across several sessions rather than booking on the first quote.

With only 12 days of snapshots, we can't responsibly point to a specific booking window where prices reliably soften — the sample is too thin to separate a genuine trend from noise. What we can say is that roughly half of the observed fares fell between $279 and $379, so treating anything near or below $350 as a reasonable deal, and anything approaching $500+ as a likely outlier, is a defensible rule of thumb based on this data alone.

We don't have visibility into a dominant carrier or consistent day-of-week pattern in this dataset, so we won't speculate about specific airlines or departure days — doing so would go beyond what the data supports. The honest caveat here is twofold: the 12-day sample is small for a long-haul international route like this, and the wide spread could reflect anything from seasonal demand shifts to a handful of unusually expensive or cheap fare-caching snapshots. Treat the $366 median as a useful anchor, but keep watching fares over a longer window before committing.

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