The sector is held by Transavia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BCN Barcelona to EIN Eindhoven
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona, Spain, to Eindhoven Airport, the Netherlands. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,157 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 59m
- Door to door
- 8h 44m
What BCN to EIN looks like
The BCN to EIN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Barcelona BCN to Eindhoven EIN is a short sector of 1,157 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,157 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 59m.
Barcelona BCN is a major hub in the network held here, 233 scheduled destinations and 625.2 departures a day. Eindhoven EIN has 74 destinations and 72.4 departures a day.
Barcelona carries about 8.6 times the departures of Eindhoven, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Barcelona and Eindhoven 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 BCN to EIN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCN to EIN | 1.86 | 13 | Transavia |
| EIN to BCN | 1.71 | 12 | Transavia |
One carrier holds the sector, Transavia, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on BCN to EIN, 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 59m block time on BCN to EIN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BCN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BCN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BCN to EIN in the air, estimated | 119 min | 6h 29m |
| Formalities at EIN | 90 min | 7h 59m |
| Delivery run in Eindhoven | 45 min | 8h 44m |
| Door to door | 524 min | 8h 44m |
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 BCN to EIN is 8h 44m.
A courier who leaves Barcelona at 09:00 local is on the ground in Eindhoven at about 10:59 local and at the door by 13:14 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Eindhoven, the last useful departure from Barcelona is around 13:46 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. 47 of them join BCN to EIN.
| Connecting at | BCN to hub, flights a day | Hub to EIN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao BIO | 4.43 | 0.57 | 1,566 | 4h 05m |
| Nice NCE | 3.57 | 0.71 | 1,373 | 4h 06m |
| Ibiza IBZ | 19.29 | 2.86 | 1,709 | 4h 14m |
| Palma PMI | 26.71 | 2.43 | 1,541 | 4h 16m |
| Bergamo BGY | 3.86 | 1.71 | 1,501 | 4h 27m |
| Bologna BLQ | 3.43 | 1.71 | 1,716 | 4h 27m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BCN in the afternoon actually flies on.
47 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bilbao BIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BIO the routing covers 1,566 km against the 1,157 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 05m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 06m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Nice NCE at 4h 06m and Ibiza IBZ at 4h 14m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Barcelona, Palma PMI is 202 km away by great circle and carries 189 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Eindhoven, Rotterdam RTM is 86 km away by great circle and carries 62 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 BCN or EIN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- SEAT, MartorellAssembly for the group's Spanish operations. Barcelona is twenty minutes from the line. Logistics through Barcelona BCN.
- 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 Eindhoven EIN.
Plan Barcelona to Eindhoven 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 BCN to EIN 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 BCN airport entry
- The EIN airport entry
- Hand carry into Spain
- Hand carry into the Netherlands
- The written lane, Dubai to Barcelona
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Dresden
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through BCN and EIN: Barcelona to Madrid, Amsterdam to Barcelona, Paris to Barcelona, Frankfurt to Barcelona, London to Barcelona, Barcelona to Milan, Brussels to Barcelona, Munich to Barcelona.