The sector is held by Iberia, Ryanair and Vueling.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ALC Alicante to IBZ Ibiza
Alicante-Elche Airport, Spain, to Ibiza Airport, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 180 km
- Block, estimated
- 46 min
- Door to door
- 7h 31m
What ALC to IBZ looks like
The ALC to IBZ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Alicante ALC to Ibiza IBZ is a short sector of 180 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 180 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 46 min.
Alicante ALC is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 231.5 departures a day. Ibiza IBZ has 91 destinations and 178.4 departures a day.
Alicante and Ibiza keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 ALC to IBZ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALC to IBZ | 4.29 | 30 | Iberia, Ryanair, Vueling |
| IBZ to ALC | 4.29 | 30 | Iberia, Ryanair, Vueling |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 60.1 departures a week on ALC to IBZ, 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 46 min block time on ALC to IBZ. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ALC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ALC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ALC to IBZ in the air, estimated | 46 min | 5h 16m |
| Formalities at IBZ | 90 min | 6h 46m |
| Delivery run in Ibiza | 45 min | 7h 31m |
| Door to door | 451 min | 7h 31m |
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 ALC to IBZ is 7h 31m.
A courier who leaves Alicante at 09:00 local is on the ground in Ibiza at about 09:46 local and at the door by 12:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Ibiza, the last useful departure from Alicante is around 14:59 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. 58 of them join ALC to IBZ.
| Connecting at | ALC to hub, flights a day | Hub to IBZ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palma PMI | 4.57 | 17.86 | 458 | 2h 55m |
| Barcelona BCN | 4 | 19.29 | 680 | 3h 30m |
| Seville SVQ | 1.14 | 1.71 | 1,133 | 3h 40m |
| Madrid MAD | 5.57 | 15.14 | 816 | 3h 43m |
| Bilbao BIO | 2.57 | 2 | 1,201 | 3h 46m |
| Marseille MRS | 1.57 | 1.14 | 1,352 | 4h 14m |
With 4.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
58 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Palma PMI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.6 times a day.
Through PMI the routing covers 458 km against the 180 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 55m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 09m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Barcelona BCN at 3h 30m and Seville SVQ at 3h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 180 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 2h 49m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Ibiza, Palma PMI is 140 km away by great circle and carries 189 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Alicante to Ibiza 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 ALC to IBZ 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.
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