The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to BFS Belfast
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Belfast International, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 383 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 04m
- Door to door
- 7h 49m
What BHX to BFS looks like
The BHX to BFS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Belfast BFS is a short sector of 383 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 383 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 04m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Belfast BFS has 47 destinations and 74.9 departures a day.
Birmingham carries about 2.5 times the departures of Belfast, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Birmingham and Belfast 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 BHX to BFS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to BFS | 4.14 | 29 | easyJet |
| BFS to BHX | 4.14 | 29 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 4.1 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 58 departures a week on BHX to BFS, 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 04m block time on BHX to BFS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BHX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BHX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BHX to BFS in the air, estimated | 64 min | 5h 34m |
| Formalities at BFS | 90 min | 7h 04m |
| Delivery run in Belfast | 45 min | 7h 49m |
| Door to door | 469 min | 7h 49m |
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 BHX to BFS is 7h 49m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Belfast at about 10:04 local and at the door by 12:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Belfast, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 14:41 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. 30 of them join BHX to BFS.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to BFS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow GLA | 2.14 | 4.29 | 594 | 2h 53m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 3 | 6 | 633 | 3h 11m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 7.29 | 0.71 | 1,213 | 4h 17m |
| Paris CDG | 6.14 | 1.14 | 1,357 | 4h 20m |
| Barcelona BCN | 4 | 0.71 | 2,880 | 6h 11m |
| Ibiza IBZ | 2.86 | 0.86 | 3,374 | 6h 18m |
With 4.1 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.
30 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Glasgow GLA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through GLA the routing covers 594 km against the 383 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 53m 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 49m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Edinburgh EDI at 3h 11m and Amsterdam AMS at 4h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 383 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 5h 59m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Birmingham, Derby and Nottingham EMA is 51 km away by great circle and carries 91 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Belfast, Dublin DUB is 137 km away by great circle and carries 198 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 BHX or BFS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Rolls-Royce, DerbyCivil large engine assembly and test. An engine on wing that is grounded is an aircraft grounded. Logistics through Birmingham BHX.
Plan Birmingham to Belfast 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 BHX to BFS 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.
More pairs through BHX and BFS: Derby and Nottingham to Belfast, Glasgow to Belfast, Liverpool to Belfast, Belfast to Bristol, Newcastle to Belfast, Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham.