ehBeth wrote:Checking the flights, figuring distances between Lippstadt and Vienna ... mulling ...
You can't do that directly but only via Munich (or Frankfurt).
Try airberlin.com - from e.g. Münster should be possible.
(If it's in the time of the winter timetable = from November onwards, they flight from here [and Dortmund] via Nuremberg to Vienna.)
Less than 10 hours by train - but 141 EUROs one way