The sector is held by easyJet, EAT Leipzig, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal and Vueling.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BCN Barcelona to LIS Lisbon
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona, Spain, to Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15 times a day
- Great circle
- 994 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 46m
- Door to door
- 8h 31m
What BCN to LIS looks like
The BCN to LIS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Barcelona BCN to Lisbon LIS is a short sector of 994 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 994 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 46m.
Barcelona BCN is a major hub in the network held here, 233 scheduled destinations and 625.2 departures a day. Lisbon LIS has 154 destinations and 367.9 departures a day.
Lisbon is one hour behind of Barcelona all year.
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 LIS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCN to LIS | 15 | 105 | easyJet, EAT Leipzig, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal, Vueling |
| LIS to BCN | 14.86 | 104 | easyJet, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal, Vueling |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 15 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 209 departures a week on BCN to LIS, 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 46m block time on BCN to LIS. 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 LIS in the air, estimated | 106 min | 6h 16m |
| Formalities at LIS | 90 min | 7h 46m |
| Delivery run in Lisbon | 45 min | 8h 31m |
| Door to door | 511 min | 8h 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 BCN to LIS is 8h 31m.
A courier who leaves Barcelona at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lisbon 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 Lisbon, the last useful departure from Barcelona 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. 105 of them join BCN to LIS.
| Connecting at | BCN to hub, flights a day | Hub to LIS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seville SVQ | 6.14 | 3.29 | 1,131 | 3h 30m |
| Ibiza IBZ | 19.29 | 2.29 | 1,186 | 3h 34m |
| Faro FAO | 1.43 | 2.86 | 1,209 | 3h 36m |
| Bilbao BIO | 4.43 | 1.86 | 1,191 | 3h 45m |
| Valencia VLC | 0.71 | 4 | 1,046 | 3h 47m |
| Porto OPO | 8.14 | 11.43 | 1,176 | 3h 48m |
With 15 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.
105 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seville SVQ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through SVQ the routing covers 1,131 km against the 994 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 30m 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 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Ibiza IBZ at 3h 34m and Faro FAO at 3h 36m 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 Lisbon, Faro FAO is 222 km away by great circle and carries 87 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 LIS. 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.
Plan Barcelona to Lisbon 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 LIS 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 LIS airport entry
- Hand carry into Spain
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Dubai to Barcelona
- The written lane, Dubai to Lisbon
- The written lane, Lisbon to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
More pairs through BCN and LIS: Barcelona to Madrid, Amsterdam to Barcelona, Paris to Barcelona, Frankfurt to Barcelona, London to Barcelona, Barcelona to Milan, Brussels to Barcelona, Munich to Barcelona.