Austrian Airlines Presents Winter Flight Schedule 2025/2026: New Long-Haul Route to Dubai and More Comfort in Italy

Lifestyle & TravelMore+ ♦ Published: October 1, 2025; 18:15 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austrian Airlines (AUA) is gearing up for winter 2025/2026 and presenting an expanded flight schedule with new destinations and optimized connections. The focus is on the new long-haul destination, Dubai, and a significant improvement in the Italy program due to the change of Milan airport.

Austrian Airlines is increasing its service by 85 flights during the fall holidays. / Picture: © Austrian Airlines / Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

As a seasonal highlight, AUA is adding the route from Vienna (VIE) to Dubai (DXB) to its winter flight schedule for the first time. The connection will be offered five times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) from December 2025 to March 2026 as the “Dubai Deal” or “Winter Experiment.” The choice of aircraft is interesting: instead of a long-haul jet, an…