The sector is held by KLM.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AMS Amsterdam to SVG Stavanger
Amsterdam Schiphol, the Netherlands, to Stavanger Airport, Norway. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 732 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 35m
- Door to door
- 8h 20m
What AMS to SVG looks like
The AMS to SVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Amsterdam AMS to Stavanger SVG is a short sector of 732 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 732 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 35m.
Amsterdam AMS is a major hub in the network held here, 281 scheduled destinations and 743.4 departures a day. Stavanger SVG has 28 destinations and 70.4 departures a day.
Amsterdam carries about 10.6 times the departures of Stavanger, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Amsterdam and Stavanger 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 AMS to SVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMS to SVG | 5.43 | 38 | KLM |
| SVG to AMS | 5.43 | 38 | KLM |
One carrier holds the sector, KLM, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 5.4 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 76 departures a week on AMS to SVG, 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 1h 35m block time on AMS to SVG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AMS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AMS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AMS to SVG in the air, estimated | 95 min | 6h 05m |
| Formalities at SVG | 90 min | 7h 35m |
| Delivery run in Stavanger | 45 min | 8h 20m |
| Door to door | 500 min | 8h 20m |
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 AMS to SVG is 8h 20m.
A courier who leaves Amsterdam at 09:00 local is on the ground in Stavanger at about 10:35 local and at the door by 12:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Stavanger, the last useful departure from Amsterdam is around 14:10 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. 24 of them join AMS to SVG.
| Connecting at | AMS to hub, flights a day | Hub to SVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergen BGO | 4 | 16.57 | 1,047 | 3h 22m |
| Aberdeen ABZ | 5.29 | 3.57 | 1,200 | 3h 46m |
| Oslo OSL | 9 | 22.14 | 1,300 | 3h 58m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 12.86 | 6.14 | 1,189 | 4h 00m |
| London LGW | 5.29 | 1 | 1,300 | 4h 14m |
| Gdansk GDN | 4.14 | 1.14 | 1,865 | 4h 23m |
With 5.4 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.
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bergen BGO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a day.
Through BGO the routing covers 1,047 km against the 732 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 22m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Aberdeen ABZ at 3h 46m and Oslo OSL at 3h 58m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Amsterdam, Rotterdam RTM is 45 km away by great circle and carries 62 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Stavanger, Bergen BGO is 159 km away by great circle and carries 61 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Amsterdam AMS is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 07:00 local, so a collection in Amsterdam that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Stavanger.
Amsterdam AMS, night restrictions: Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through AMS or SVG. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- ASML, VeldhovenLithography systems, including the only extreme ultraviolet machines in production. A single reticle or optic can hold up a fab on another continent. Logistics through Amsterdam AMS.
- Johnson and Johnson, Beerse and LeidenPharmaceutical research and vaccine production. Two low country sites, two gates. Logistics through Amsterdam AMS.
- ASM Pacific and Besi, Duiven and SingaporeSemiconductor assembly equipment. Back end equipment feeding Asian assembly plants. Logistics through Amsterdam AMS.
- SLB, Aberdeen and StavangerOilfield services and downhole equipment. A rig that stops costs more per hour than most factories. Logistics through Stavanger SVG.
Plan Amsterdam to Stavanger 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 AMS to SVG 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 AMS airport entry
- The SVG airport entry
- Hand carry into the Netherlands
- Hand carry into Norway
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Bangalore
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Detroit
- The route calculator
More pairs through AMS and SVG: Amsterdam to London, Amsterdam to Barcelona, Madrid to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Paris, Dublin to Amsterdam, Frankfurt to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Copenhagen, Munich to Amsterdam.