There are 8 ways to get from Brisbane to Essen by plane or train
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Fly to Düsseldorf International Airport
best- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane BNE - DUS
26h 53m€619–1,737Fly to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, train
cheapest- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane BNE - AMS
- Take the train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraaltrain
- Take the train from Utrecht Centraal to Oberhausen Hbftrain
30h 17m€375–1,674Fly to Münster Osnabrück International Airport, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Münster Osnabrück International Airport (FMO)plane BNE - FMO
- Take the train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbftrain
29h 25m€837–2,464Fly to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane BNE - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Essen Hbftrain
28h 38m€476–1,425Fly to Brussels Airport, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane BNE - BRU
- Take the train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbftrain
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
30h 37m€569–1,760Fly to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane BNE - CGN
- Take the train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Essen Hbftrain
28h 39m€579–1,761Fly to Berlin Brandenburg Airport, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)plane BNE - BER
- Take the train from Berlin Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
29h 24m€519–1,347Fly to Munich International Airport, train
- Fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Munich International Airport (MUC)plane BNE - MUC
- Take the train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhoftrain
- Take the train from München Hbf to Essen Hbftrain
32h 18m€602–2,122
Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Brisbane to Essen is to fly and train which costs €500 - €1400 and takes 29h 24m.
The fastest way to get from Brisbane to Essen is to fly which takes 26h 53m and costs €600 - €1800.
The distance between Brisbane and Essen is 16198 km.
It takes approximately 26h 53m to get from Brisbane to Essen, including transfers.
Essen is 8h behind Brisbane. It is currently 12:55 PM in Brisbane and 4:55 AM in Essen.
There are 754+ hotels available in Essen.
What companies run services between Brisbane, QLD, Australia and Essen, Germany?
Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways fly from Brisbane Airport (BNE) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) once daily.
- Website
- virginaustralia.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Frankfurt via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Brussels Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €450–1,400
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Munich International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- qatarairways.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Frankfurt via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Brussels Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €450–1,400
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Munich International Airport via Doha
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Singapore Changi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €800–3,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Hong Kong, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €800–3,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €800–3,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Doha, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €800–2,400
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Dubai, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €800–2,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €550–2,500
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Munich International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €550–2,500
- Website
- emirates.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Frankfurt via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,600
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Brussels Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €500–1,700
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Munich International Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,800
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €480–1,800
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €480–1,800
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Frankfurt via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €440–1,100
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Berlin Brandenburg Airport via Dubai
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €480–1,500
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €470–1,800
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Munich International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,900
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Brussels Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €600–2,100
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Berlin Brandenburg Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 20m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Sarajevo
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 5m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Suvarnabhumi, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €500–1,800
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Münster Osnabrück International Airport via Doha, Munich International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €800–2,400
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Brisbane Airport to Cologne Bonn Airport via Doha, Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €550–1,700
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €17–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Brussels-Nord to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 41m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–95
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €16–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–40
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Berlin Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €95–220
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from München Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €130–290
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 6m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €25–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €23–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Flughafen München to Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–17
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 33 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–12
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
Train from Utrecht Centraal to Oberhausen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–40
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Schiphol Airport Train Station to Utrecht Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €10–12
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €10–12
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 58 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €26–45
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Phone
- +49 9126 301 90 70
- fahrgaeste@train-rental.com
- Website
- train-rental.com
Train from Köln Hbf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- train-rental.com
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Köln Messe/Deutz Bf to Essen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
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