The sector is held by Jet2.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BHX Birmingham to VCE Venice
Birmingham Airport, the United Kingdom, to Marco Polo Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,283 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 08m
- Door to door
- 8h 53m
What BHX to VCE looks like
The BHX to VCE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Birmingham BHX to Venice VCE is a medium haul sector of 1,283 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,283 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 08m.
Birmingham BHX is a large airport in the network held here, 139 scheduled destinations and 187.8 departures a day. Venice VCE has 114 destinations and 175 departures a day.
Venice 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 VCE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BHX to VCE | 0.43 | 3 | Jet2 |
| VCE to BHX | 0.43 | 3 | Jet2 |
One carrier holds the sector, Jet2, 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 VCE, 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 08m block time on BHX to VCE. 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 VCE in the air, estimated | 128 min | 6h 38m |
| Formalities at VCE | 90 min | 8h 08m |
| Delivery run in Venice | 45 min | 8h 53m |
| Door to door | 533 min | 8h 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 VCE is 8h 53m.
A courier who leaves Birmingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Venice at about 12:08 local and at the door by 14:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Venice, the last useful departure from Birmingham is around 12:37 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. 50 of them join BHX to VCE.
| Connecting at | BHX to hub, flights a day | Hub to VCE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 0.71 | 1.43 | 1,384 | 4h 07m |
| Zurich ZRH | 1.57 | 5 | 1,285 | 4h 13m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 2.29 | 1 | 1,361 | 4h 15m |
| Paris CDG | 6.14 | 8.43 | 1,323 | 4h 17m |
| Munich MUC | 1.14 | 4.57 | 1,380 | 4h 19m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 7.29 | 4 | 1,379 | 4h 21m |
50 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 1,384 km against the 1,283 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 07m 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 59m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Zurich ZRH at 4h 13m and Dusseldorf DUS at 4h 15m 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 Venice, Treviso TSF is 20 km away by great circle and carries 47 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 VCE. 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 Venice 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 VCE 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 VCE airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Italy
- The route calculator
More pairs through BHX and VCE: Dublin to Birmingham, Birmingham to Dubai, Frankfurt to Birmingham, Dusseldorf to Birmingham, Berlin to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Birmingham to Delhi, Birmingham to Toulouse.