The sector is held by easyJet, Jet2 and TUI Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to HER Heraklion
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,847 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 08m
- Door to door
- 10h 53m
What BHX to HER looks like
The BHX to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,847 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,847 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 08m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion 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 HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to HER | 1.86 | 13 | easyJet, Jet2, TUI Airways |
| HER to BHX | 1.29 | 9 | easyJet, Jet2 |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: BHX to HER runs about once a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 22.1 departures a week on BHX to HER, 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 4h 08m block time on BHX to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 248 min | 8h 38m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 10h 08m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 10h 53m |
| Door to door | 653 min | 10h 53m |
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 HER is 10h 53m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 15:08 local and at the door by 17:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 09:37 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. 49 of them join BHX to HER.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naples NAP | 0.86 | 1 | 2,901 | 5h 57m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.71 | 1.14 | 2,897 | 5h 57m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 2.29 | 5.86 | 2,901 | 6h 04m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 0.57 | 3.43 | 2,901 | 6h 05m |
| Budapest BUD | 1 | 0.87 | 3,028 | 6h 07m |
| Zurich ZRH | 1.57 | 5.43 | 2,848 | 6h 09m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BHX in the afternoon actually flies on.
49 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Naples NAP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through NAP the routing covers 2,901 km against the 2,847 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 57m 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 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, Geneva GVA at 5h 57m and Dusseldorf DUS at 6h 04m 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 HER. 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 Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHX and HER: Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham, Dusseldorf to Birmingham, Berlin to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Birmingham to Delhi, Birmingham to Toulouse.