The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to TLS Toulouse
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Toulouse Blagnac, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,008 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 47m
- Door to door
- 8h 32m
What BHX to TLS looks like
The BHX to TLS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Toulouse TLS is a short sector of 1,008 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,008 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 47m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Toulouse TLS has 90 destinations and 100.6 departures a day.
Toulouse 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 TLS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to TLS | 0.43 | 3 | Ryanair |
| TLS to BHX | 0.43 | 3 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on BHX to TLS, 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 47m block time on BHX to TLS. 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 TLS in the air, estimated | 107 min | 6h 17m |
| Formalities at TLS | 90 min | 7h 47m |
| Delivery run in Toulouse | 45 min | 8h 32m |
| Door to door | 512 min | 8h 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 TLS is 8h 32m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Toulouse 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 Toulouse, 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. 40 of them join BHX to TLS.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to TLS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 0.71 | 1.14 | 1,367 | 4h 06m |
| Paris CDG | 6.14 | 13.43 | 1,094 | 4h 07m |
| Dublin DUB | 16.29 | 1.14 | 1,545 | 4h 17m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 7.29 | 3.43 | 1,440 | 4h 25m |
| Nice NCE | 0.57 | 0.86 | 1,652 | 4h 27m |
| Bergamo BGY | 1 | 0.71 | 1,819 | 4h 43m |
40 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.
Through GVA the routing covers 1,367 km against the 1,008 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 19m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Paris CDG at 4h 07m and Dublin DUB at 4h 17m 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 Toulouse, Bordeaux BOD is 213 km away by great circle and carries 84 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 TLS. 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.
- Airbus, Toulouse BlagnacFinal assembly for the A320, A330 and A350 families, and the group head office. An assembly line that stops waits for one part, and Toulouse is where the aircraft is standing. Logistics through Toulouse TLS.
Plan Birmingham to Toulouse 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 TLS 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 TLS airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The written lane, Casablanca to Toulouse
- The written lane, Dubai to Toulouse
- The written lane, Queretaro to Toulouse
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHX and TLS: Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham, Dusseldorf to Birmingham, Berlin to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Birmingham to Delhi, Birmingham to Budapest.