The sector is held by easyJet, Jet2 and Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to FAO Faro
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Faro Airport, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,784 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 47m
- Door to door
- 9h 32m
What BHX to FAO looks like
The BHX to FAO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Faro FAO is a medium haul sector of 1,784 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,784 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 47m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Faro FAO has 87 destinations and 132.3 departures a day.
Birmingham and Faro 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 FAO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to FAO | 3.86 | 27 | easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair |
| FAO to BHX | 4 | 28 | easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.9 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 55 departures a week on BHX to FAO, 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 2h 47m block time on BHX to FAO. 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 FAO in the air, estimated | 167 min | 7h 17m |
| Formalities at FAO | 90 min | 8h 47m |
| Delivery run in Faro | 45 min | 9h 32m |
| Door to door | 572 min | 9h 32m |
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 FAO is 9h 32m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Faro at about 11:47 local and at the door by 14:02 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Faro, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 12:58 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. 41 of them join BHX to FAO.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to FAO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lisbon LIS | 1 | 2.86 | 1,845 | 4h 39m |
| Porto OPO | 1.14 | 3.57 | 1,826 | 4h 41m |
| Cork ORK | 0.57 | 1.86 | 2,114 | 4h 47m |
| Shannon SNN | 0.57 | 1.14 | 2,232 | 4h 57m |
| Madrid MAD | 1 | 2.57 | 1,880 | 5h 00m |
| Dublin DUB | 16.29 | 8.14 | 2,150 | 5h 03m |
With 3.9 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.
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Lisbon LIS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LIS the routing covers 1,845 km against the 1,784 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 39m 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 52m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Porto OPO at 4h 41m and Cork ORK at 4h 47m 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 Faro, Seville SVQ is 189 km away by great circle and carries 79 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 FAO. 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 Faro 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 FAO 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 FAO airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHX and FAO: Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham, Dusseldorf to Birmingham, Berlin to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Birmingham to Delhi, Birmingham to Toulouse.