Through GVA the routing covers 991 km against the 898 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 33m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to LYS Lyon
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Lyon Saint-Exupery, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 898 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 39m
- Door to door
- 8h 24m
What BHX to LYS looks like
The BHX to LYS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Lyon LYS is a short sector of 898 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 898 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 39m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Lyon LYS has 122 destinations and 152.8 departures a day.
Lyon is one hour 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 LYS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to LYS | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| LYS to BHX | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for BHX to LYS rather than the fallback.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 2 departures a week on BHX to LYS, 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 39m block time on BHX to LYS. 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 LYS in the air, estimated | 99 min | 6h 09m |
| Formalities at LYS | 90 min | 7h 39m |
| Delivery run in Lyon | 45 min | 8h 24m |
| Door to door | 504 min | 8h 24m |
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 LYS is 8h 24m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lyon at about 11:39 local and at the door by 13:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lyon, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 13:06 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. 57 of them join BHX to LYS.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to LYS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 0.71 | 1.14 | 991 | 3h 33m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 0.57 | 5.29 | 1,316 | 3h 46m |
| Paris CDG | 6.14 | 6.57 | 901 | 3h 49m |
| Nice NCE | 0.57 | 1.43 | 1,466 | 4h 10m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 7.29 | 4.43 | 1,174 | 4h 14m |
| Dublin DUB | 16.29 | 1.86 | 1,503 | 4h 14m |
57 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Geneva GVA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
That is only 1h 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bordeaux BOD at 3h 46m and Paris CDG at 3h 49m 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 Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 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 LYS. 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.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan Birmingham to Lyon 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 LYS 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 LYS airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
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