Getting to Austria, Austria

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While there are international airports in Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz and Salzburg, the majority of flights from outside Europe fly into Vienna Airport which lies about twenty kilometres from the city centre. It is also worth noting that if you wish to travel to some of the bigger western cities, it is probably more convenient to fly to Munich and commute from there as it is a shorter journey than that from Vienna. Also while a lot of flights into the capital arrive directly from their starting point, many more will require a transfer in another major European city, usually London in the UK or Frankfurt in Germany.

Austrian Airlines operates direct flights to and from New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Washington. For all other US cities, a connection is necessary. Delta airlines also fly directly to Vienna from New York and Atlanta. British Airways operates flights from North and South America and Canada stopping off in London. Lufthansa has a service from the US to Frankfurt and Munich with connecting flights to Vienna.

Rail connections between Austria and the rest of Europe are excellent. The national rail service Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen) operate connections from Vienna to Moscow via Warsaw in Poland, Kiev in the Ukraine and Minsk in Belarus; to Venice, Rome and Milan in Italy, Athens in Greece, Istanbul in Turkey via Belgrade in Serbia; to Bucharest in Romania via Budapest in Hungary and to Berlin in Germany.

Finally, while travel by bus is slower and not nearly as comfortable it is much cheaper and both Busabout and Eurolines offer a direct service from Austria to the major European cities. The former serves St. Johann, Salzburg and Vienna while the latter only travels to the capital.

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