The airline will start with four non-stop flights a week to the Austrian capital from May 1, rising to daily from May 15, says a press release.

The new route -- which will start barely 20 days after the launch of two other new Emirates services to Glasgow and Shanghai -- will make Vienna the 77th destination in a route network.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, Emirates' executive vice-president of Commercial Operations Worldwide, Keith Longstaff, senior vice-president of Commercial Operations Europe, and just-appointed Martin Gross, area manager Austria, announced the expansion at a briefing in Vienna.