The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GYD Baku to WAW Warsaw
Heydar Aliyev International, Azerbaijan, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,559 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 46m
- Door to door
- 10h 31m
What GYD to WAW looks like
The GYD to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Baku GYD to Warsaw WAW is a medium haul sector of 2,559 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,559 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 46m.
Baku GYD is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 64 scheduled destinations and 84.9 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Warsaw carries about 3.9 times the departures of Baku, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Warsaw runs 3 hours behind of Baku in January and 2 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 GYD to WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GYD to WAW | 0.71 | 5 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to GYD | 0.57 | 4 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on GYD to WAW, 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 46m block time on GYD to WAW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to GYD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At GYD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| GYD to WAW in the air, estimated | 226 min | 8h 16m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 9h 46m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 10h 31m |
| Door to door | 631 min | 10h 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 GYD to WAW is 10h 31m.
A courier who leaves Baku at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw 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 Warsaw, the last useful departure from Baku 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. 25 of them join GYD to WAW.
| Connecting at | GYD to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tbilisi TBS | 7.71 | 1.14 | 2,595 | 5h 24m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.57 | 6.29 | 3,104 | 6h 19m |
| Istanbul IST | 3.86 | 3.43 | 3,135 | 6h 30m |
| Izmir ADB | 1.71 | 0.86 | 3,592 | 6h 35m |
| Vienna VIE | 0.57 | 7.57 | 3,321 | 6h 35m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 5 | 3,484 | 6h 48m |
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tbilisi TBS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TBS the routing covers 2,595 km against the 2,559 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 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 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, Budapest BUD at 6h 19m and Istanbul IST at 6h 30m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Baku to Warsaw 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 GYD to WAW 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 GYD airport entry
- The WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into Azerbaijan
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Baku
- The written lane, Sharjah to Baku
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The route calculator
More pairs through GYD and WAW: Tel Aviv to Baku, Istanbul to Baku, Almaty to Baku, Baku to Abu Dhabi, Baku to Tbilisi, Delhi to Baku, Doha to Baku, Jeddah to Baku.