At the cruise speed this site models for 187 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 47 min.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BRS Bristol to EMA Derby and Nottingham
Bristol Airport, the United Kingdom, to East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 187 km
- Block, estimated
- 47 min
- Door to door
- 7h 32m
What BRS to EMA looks like
The BRS to EMA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bristol BRS to Derby and Nottingham EMA is a short sector of 187 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
Bristol BRS is a large airport in the network held here, 116 scheduled destinations and 130.9 departures a day. Derby and Nottingham EMA has 91 destinations and 74.6 departures a day.
Bristol and Derby and Nottingham 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 BRS to EMA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRS to EMA | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| EMA to BRS | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for BRS to EMA rather than the fallback.
The return leg EMA to BRS carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
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 1 departure a week on BRS to EMA, 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 47 min block time on BRS to EMA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BRS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BRS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BRS to EMA in the air, estimated | 47 min | 5h 17m |
| Formalities at EMA | 90 min | 6h 47m |
| Delivery run in Derby and Nottingham | 45 min | 7h 32m |
| Door to door | 452 min | 7h 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 BRS to EMA is 7h 32m.
A courier who leaves Bristol at 09:00 local is on the ground in Derby and Nottingham at about 09:47 local and at the door by 12:02 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Derby and Nottingham, the last useful departure from Bristol is around 14:58 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. 38 of them join BRS to EMA.
| Connecting at | BRS to hub, flights a day | Hub to EMA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belfast BFS | 2.86 | 2.43 | 813 | 3h 12m |
| Dublin DUB | 8 | 2.57 | 667 | 3h 14m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 3.14 | 1.57 | 881 | 3h 33m |
| Paris CDG | 2.29 | 1.29 | 962 | 3h 55m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 1.43 | 0.71 | 2,075 | 4h 54m |
| Bergamo BGY | 0.86 | 0.57 | 2,238 | 5h 06m |
38 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Belfast BFS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through BFS the routing covers 813 km against the 187 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 12m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 25m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dublin DUB at 3h 14m and Edinburgh EDI at 3h 33m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 187 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 2h 55m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Bristol, Birmingham BHX is 136 km away by great circle and carries 139 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Derby and Nottingham, Manchester MAN is 86 km away by great circle and carries 203 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 BRS or EMA. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Filton, BristolWing design, fuel systems and landing gear engineering. Engineering hardware and test articles moving to and from the assembly lines. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
- Leonardo, YeovilHelicopter assembly and support. Support contracts with fixed response times. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
- Rolls-Royce, DerbyCivil large engine assembly and test. An engine on wing that is grounded is an aircraft grounded. Logistics through Derby and Nottingham EMA.
Plan Bristol to Derby and Nottingham 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 BRS to EMA 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 BRS airport entry
- The EMA airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through BRS and EMA: Dublin to Bristol, Bristol to Prague, Berlin to Bristol, Bristol to Lisbon, Bristol to Toulouse, Aberdeen to Bristol, Geneva to Bristol, Budapest to Bristol.