The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ABZ Aberdeen to ALC Alicante
Aberdeen Airport, the United Kingdom, to Alicante-Elche Airport, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,107 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 11m
- Door to door
- 9h 56m
What ABZ to ALC looks like
The ABZ to ALC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Aberdeen ABZ to Alicante ALC is a medium haul sector of 2,107 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,107 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 11m.
Aberdeen ABZ is a smaller airport in the network held here, 38 scheduled destinations and 45.7 departures a day. Alicante ALC has 145 destinations and 231.5 departures a day.
Alicante carries about 5.1 times the departures of Aberdeen, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Alicante is one hour ahead of Aberdeen all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ABZ to ALC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABZ to ALC | 0.71 | 5 | Ryanair |
| ALC to ABZ | 0.71 | 5 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on ABZ to ALC, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 3h 11m block time on ABZ to ALC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ABZ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ABZ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ABZ to ALC in the air, estimated | 191 min | 7h 41m |
| Formalities at ALC | 90 min | 9h 11m |
| Delivery run in Alicante | 45 min | 9h 56m |
| Door to door | 596 min | 9h 56m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for ABZ to ALC is 9h 56m.
A courier who leaves Aberdeen at 09:00 local is on the ground in Alicante at about 13:11 local and at the door by 15:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Alicante, the last useful departure from Aberdeen is around 11:34 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 19 of them join ABZ to ALC.
| Connecting at | ABZ to hub, flights a day | Hub to ALC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow GLA | 0.86 | 3.14 | 2,178 | 4h 49m |
| Birmingham BHX | 2.29 | 5.43 | 2,108 | 5h 03m |
| Bristol BRS | 1 | 4.29 | 2,115 | 5h 04m |
| Dublin DUB | 3.43 | 3.86 | 2,232 | 5h 12m |
| Manchester MAN | 3 | 10.14 | 2,109 | 5h 17m |
| London LGW | 2.29 | 12.29 | 2,116 | 5h 21m |
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Glasgow GLA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through GLA the routing covers 2,178 km against the 2,107 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 49m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Birmingham BHX at 5h 03m and Bristol BRS at 5h 04m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Aberdeen, Edinburgh EDI is 156 km away by great circle and carries 163 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Alicante, Valencia VLC is 134 km away by great circle and carries 101 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through ABZ or ALC. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Baker Hughes, Aberdeen and FlorenceOilfield equipment and turbomachinery. The North Sea runs on parts that arrive the same day. Logistics through Aberdeen ABZ.
- SLB, Aberdeen and StavangerOilfield services and downhole equipment. A rig that stops costs more per hour than most factories. Logistics through Aberdeen ABZ.
Plan Aberdeen to Alicante yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for ABZ to ALC in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The ABZ airport entry
- The ALC airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Spain
- The written lane, Aberdeen to Stavanger
- The written lane, Houston to Aberdeen
- The route calculator
More pairs through ABZ and ALC: London to Aberdeen, Amsterdam to Aberdeen, Dublin to Aberdeen, Manchester to Aberdeen, Aberdeen to Copenhagen, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Oslo, Aberdeen to Bristol.