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Our Partner Airlines



Our partner airlines – Austrian and Lufthansa Group – offer attractive discounts for our executive fellows commuting to the modules. This further reduces the overall cost of CEU Executive MBA.

Among the many reasons why we designed a modular program was our intention to lower the cost, hassle and carbon footprint of commute for participants coming from outside Vienna and Budapest. Attending CEU Executive MBA will require only 10 round trips from your city of origin.

Seven of our 10 modules will take place in Vienna, a major international hub with an airport maintaining services to more than 200 destinations worldwide.

Because of that, participation in the program is feasible for participants from almost every major European city, but also from important hubs in Central Asia, the Middle East, China, the United States or Canada.

To make our participants’ commute even smoother, we have partnered with Austrian Airlines and the Lufthansa group to offer an attractive AA/LH-CEU Discount Program for our Executive MBA fellows. Our partner airlines allow you to conveniently and affordably fly from more than 80 destinations worldwide to attend our modules.

With our discounts, the median total commuting cost from the above-mentioned destinations does not exceed EUR 2,500 for the program (or EUR 250 per module).

That is because all module dates, as well as starting and ending times, are fixed in advance for the entire program and not subject to change. This allows our EMBAs to purchase tickets well in advance.

Below we have compiled a list of approximate total commuting costs from select cities. The estimates are based on 2021 prices, take into account the discount from our partner airlines and assume the advance purchases of the cheapest, non-refundable coach tickets.

Country City Convenient 
connections by
TOTAL ESTIMATED 
COMMUTING COST **
Albania Tirana Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,835
Armenia Yerevan Austrian Airlines / TAROM* / Aeroflot* 2,843
Azerbaijan Baku Lufthansa Group / Wizzair* / Aeroflot* 3,751
Belarus Minsk Austrian Airlines 2,540
Belgium Brussels Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,443
Bosnia Sarajevo Austrian Airlines 2,063
Bulgaria Sofia Austrian Airlines / LOT* 1,066
Canada Montreal Austrian Airlines 6,956
China Beijing Austrian Airlines 7,586
China Shanghai Austrian Airlines 6,227
Croatia Split Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 2,474
Croatia Zagreb Austrian Airlines 1,936
Cyprus Larnaca Austrian Airlines 1,818
Czech Rep. Prague Austrian Airlines / Ryanair 1,006
Denmark Copenhagen Austrian Airlines 1,085
Egypt Cairo Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 3,790
Estonia Tallin Air Baltic* / LOT* 1,894
Finland Helsinki Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,778
France Lyon Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,453
France Paris Austrian Airlines 1,435
Georgia Tbilisi Turkish Airlines* 2,539
Germany Berlin Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 833
Germany Cologne/Dusserdorf Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 968
Germany Frankfurt Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,388
Germany Hamburg Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,008
Germany Munich Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,403
Greece Athens Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,155
Greece Thessaloniki Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,459
Iran Tehran Austrian Airlines 5,269
Iraq Erbil Austrian Airlines 10,989
Ireland Dublin Lufthansa Group 2,234
Israel Tel-Aviv Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,816
Italy Bologna Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,305
Italy Florence Lufthansa Group 1,827
Italy Milan Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 826
Italy Naples Lufthansa Group 1,649
Italy Rome Lufthansa Group 1,078
Jordan Amman Austrian Airlines 5,902
Kazakhstan Almaty Lufthansa Group. / Turkish Airlines* / Aeroflot* 4,128
Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan Lufthansa Group / LOT* / Belavia* 4,023
Kosovo Prishtina Austrian Airlines 1,784
Latvia Riga Air Baltic* / LOT* 1,706
Lithuania Vilnius Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group /
Air Baltic*
1,980
Luxembourg Luxembourg Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group / Luxair* 2,541
Macedonia Skopje Austrian Airlines / Adria* 1,728
Moldova Chisinau Austrian Airlines 1,912
Montenegro Podgorica Austrian Airlines / LOT* / Air Serbia* 1,959
Netherlands Amsterdam Austrian Airlines / KLM* 1,424
Norway Oslo Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,427
Poland Gdansk Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,380
Poland Krakow Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,637
Poland Poznan Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,429
Poland Warsaw Austrian Airlines / LOT* 1,122
Poland Wroclaw Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,306
Portugal Lisbon Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,264
Qatar Doha Qatar Airways* 5,196
Romania Bucharest Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,163
Romania Cluj Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group / TAROM* 2,145
Romania Sibiu Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 2,246
Russia Moscow Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,651
Russia St. Petersburg Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group / Aeroflot 2,075
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudia* 4,878
Serbia Belgrade Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,471
Spain Barcelona Lufthansa Group / Vueling* 1,194
Spain Madrid Iberia* 1,432
Sweden Stockholm Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,474
Switzerland Geneva Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,096
Switzerland Zurich Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,397
Thailand Bangkok Austrian Airlines 8,539
Turkey Istanbul Turkish Airlines* 2,166
UAE Abu Dhabi Royal Jordanian* / Pegasus* / Gulf Air* 5,123
UAE Dubai Emirates* 4,405
UK London Austrian / Ryanair* / Easyjet* 988
UK Manchester Austrian / Lufthansa Group / KLM* / Brussels Airlines* 1,314
Ukraine Kiev Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group / LOT* 1,389
Ukraine Lviv Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group / LOT* 1,914
Ukraine Odessa Austrian Airlines / Lufthansa Group 1,924
United States Chicago Austrian Airlines 10,249
United States Los Angeles Austrian Airlines 11,814
United States Miami Austrian Airlines 7,041
United States New York Austrian Airlines 9,786
United States Washington Austrian Airlines 10,656

 

* Airlines not currently participating in the CEU Discount Program

** (total price of 10 round-trip tickets: – 6 trips to Vienna – 3 trips to Budapest) In EUR.

In Participants' Words

“A modular Executive MBA compatible with professional life that reflects Open Society values and addresses the issues of tomorrow.”

 

OLIVIER BORUCHOWITCH
Class of 2022
BOZAR
Brussels, Belgium