The sector is held by easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair and TUI Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to CFU Corfu
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Corfu Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,184 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 17m
- Door to door
- 10h 02m
What BHX to CFU looks like
The BHX to CFU sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Corfu CFU is a medium haul sector of 2,184 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,184 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 17m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Corfu CFU has 102 destinations and 96.9 departures a day.
Corfu is 2 hours ahead of Birmingham 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 BHX to CFU from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to CFU | 3.14 | 22 | easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI Airways |
| CFU to BHX | 2.86 | 20 | easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair, TUI Airways |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.1 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 42 departures a week on BHX to CFU, 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 17m block time on BHX to CFU. 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 CFU in the air, estimated | 197 min | 7h 47m |
| Formalities at CFU | 90 min | 9h 17m |
| Delivery run in Corfu | 45 min | 10h 02m |
| Door to door | 602 min | 10h 02m |
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 CFU is 10h 02m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Corfu at about 14:17 local and at the door by 16:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Corfu, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 10:28 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. 48 of them join BHX to CFU.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to CFU, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergamo BGY | 1 | 1.29 | 2,194 | 5h 03m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 2.29 | 3.14 | 2,248 | 5h 14m |
| Naples NAP | 0.86 | 0.71 | 2,266 | 5h 14m |
| Zurich ZRH | 1.57 | 0.71 | 2,185 | 5h 18m |
| Munich MUC | 1.14 | 2.43 | 2,229 | 5h 21m |
| Budapest BUD | 1 | 1.71 | 2,469 | 5h 24m |
With 3.1 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.
48 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bergamo BGY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BGY the routing covers 2,194 km against the 2,184 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 03m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dusseldorf DUS at 5h 14m and Naples NAP at 5h 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 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 Corfu, Tirana TIA is 202 km away by great circle and carries 105 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 CFU. 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 Corfu 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 CFU 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 BHX airport entry
- The CFU airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHX and CFU: Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham, Dusseldorf to Birmingham, Berlin to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Birmingham to Delhi, Birmingham to Toulouse.