The sector is held by Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines and My Jet Xpress Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHM Birmingham to RDU Raleigh
Birmingham -Shuttlesworth, the United States, to Raleigh Durham, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 772 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 38m
- Door to door
- 8h 23m
What BHM to RDU looks like
The BHM to RDU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHM to Raleigh RDU is a short sector of 772 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 772 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 38m.
Birmingham BHM is a large airport in the network held here, 84 scheduled destinations and 85.8 departures a day. Raleigh RDU has 152 destinations and 243.8 departures a day.
Raleigh carries about 2.8 times the departures of Birmingham, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Raleigh is one hour ahead of Birmingham all year.
The pair sits inside the Americas, a corridor where the site already publishes 13 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BHM to RDU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHM to RDU | 0.57 | 4 | Breeze Airways, Delta Air Lines, My Jet Xpress Airlines |
| RDU to BHM | 0.43 | 3 | Breeze Airways |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 7 departures a week on BHM to RDU, 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 38m block time on BHM to RDU. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BHM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BHM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BHM to RDU in the air, estimated | 98 min | 6h 08m |
| Formalities at RDU | 90 min | 7h 38m |
| Delivery run in Raleigh | 45 min | 8h 23m |
| Door to door | 503 min | 8h 23m |
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 BHM to RDU is 8h 23m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Raleigh at about 11:38 local and at the door by 13:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Raleigh, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 13:07 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. 26 of them join BHM to RDU.
| Connecting at | BHM to hub, flights a day | Hub to RDU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte CLT | 7.71 | 10 | 773 | 3h 38m |
| Atlanta ATL | 9.57 | 14 | 788 | 3h 40m |
| Nashville BNA | 3.71 | 8.29 | 995 | 3h 58m |
| Washington DC DCA | 3 | 9.57 | 1,416 | 4h 08m |
| Baltimore BWI | 1.14 | 4.14 | 1,508 | 4h 15m |
| Orlando MCO | 2 | 10.43 | 1,633 | 4h 29m |
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Charlotte CLT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 7.7 times a day.
Through CLT the routing covers 773 km against the 772 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 38m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 00m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Atlanta ATL at 3h 40m and Nashville BNA 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 Birmingham, Atlanta ATL is 216 km away by great circle and carries 253 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Raleigh, Charlotte CLT is 209 km away by great circle and carries 219 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 BHM or RDU. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Mercedes-Benz, Tuscaloosa, AlabamaSUV assembly for world markets. The same transatlantic pattern as BMW Spartanburg. Logistics through Birmingham BHM.
Plan Birmingham to Raleigh 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 BHM to RDU 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 BHM airport entry
- The RDU airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHM and RDU: Atlanta to Birmingham, Chicago to Birmingham, Birmingham to Detroit, Houston to Birmingham, Birmingham to Charlotte, Birmingham to Miami, Birmingham to Dallas, Birmingham to Denver.