The sector is held by Air Canada and Air Transat.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ATH Athens to YUL Montreal
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece, to Montreal Trudeau, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 7,632 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 42m
- Door to door
- 16h 27m
What ATH to YUL looks like
The ATH to YUL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Athens ATH to Montreal YUL is an ultra long sector of 7,632 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,632 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 42m.
Athens ATH is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 472 departures a day. Montreal YUL has 157 destinations and 317.8 departures a day.
Montreal is 7 hours behind of Athens all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ATH to YUL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATH to YUL | 2.43 | 17 | Air Canada, Air Transat |
| YUL to ATH | 2.29 | 16 | Air Canada, Air Transat |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Canada and Air Transat, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 33 departures a week on ATH to YUL, 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 9h 42m block time on ATH to YUL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ATH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ATH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ATH to YUL in the air, estimated | 582 min | 14h 12m |
| Formalities at YUL | 90 min | 15h 42m |
| Delivery run in Montreal | 45 min | 16h 27m |
| Door to door | 987 min | 16h 27m |
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 ATH to YUL is 16h 27m.
A courier who leaves Athens at 09:00 local is on the ground in Montreal at about 11:42 local and at the door by 13:57 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Montreal, the last useful departure from Athens is around 13:03 local.
At 16h 27m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 51 of them join ATH to YUL.
| Connecting at | ATH to hub, flights a day | Hub to YUL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes NTE | 0.86 | 1.14 | 7,655 | 11h 24m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 0.86 | 0.86 | 7,703 | 11h 26m |
| Naples NAP | 2.57 | 0.71 | 7,674 | 11h 33m |
| Lyon LYS | 2.29 | 1.57 | 7,646 | 11h 35m |
| Geneva GVA | 3.71 | 1.14 | 7,636 | 11h 35m |
| Paris ORY | 4.43 | 0.71 | 7,631 | 11h 35m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ATH in the afternoon actually flies on.
51 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nantes NTE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through NTE the routing covers 7,655 km against the 7,632 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 24m 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 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bordeaux BOD at 11h 26m and Naples NAP at 11h 33m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Montreal, Ottawa YOW is 151 km away by great circle and carries 45 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Athens to Montreal 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 ATH to YUL 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 ATH airport entry
- The YUL airport entry
- Hand carry into Greece
- Hand carry into Canada
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Dubai to Athens
- The written lane, Sharjah to Athens
- The route calculator
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