The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BRS Bristol to LIS Lisbon
Bristol Airport, the United Kingdom, to Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,488 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 24m
- Door to door
- 9h 09m
What BRS to LIS looks like
The BRS to LIS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bristol BRS to Lisbon LIS is a medium haul sector of 1,488 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,488 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 24m.
Bristol BRS is a large airport in the network held here, 116 scheduled destinations and 130.9 departures a day. Lisbon LIS has 154 destinations and 367.9 departures a day.
Lisbon carries about 2.8 times the departures of Bristol, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Bristol and Lisbon 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 LIS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRS to LIS | 1.86 | 13 | easyJet |
| LIS to BRS | 1.71 | 12 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on BRS to LIS, 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 24m block time on BRS to LIS. 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 LIS in the air, estimated | 144 min | 6h 54m |
| Formalities at LIS | 90 min | 8h 24m |
| Delivery run in Lisbon | 45 min | 9h 09m |
| Door to door | 549 min | 9h 09m |
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 LIS is 9h 09m.
A courier who leaves Bristol at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lisbon at about 11:24 local and at the door by 13:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lisbon, the last useful departure from Bristol is around 13:21 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. 51 of them join BRS to LIS.
| Connecting at | BRS to hub, flights a day | Hub to LIS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porto OPO | 1.43 | 11.43 | 1,492 | 4h 12m |
| Bilbao BIO | 0.57 | 1.86 | 1,623 | 4h 13m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 0.57 | 1.57 | 1,712 | 4h 20m |
| Faro FAO | 4.29 | 2.86 | 1,873 | 4h 27m |
| Toulouse TLS | 0.71 | 2.86 | 1,944 | 4h 29m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.29 | 21.86 | 1,726 | 4h 48m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BRS in the afternoon actually flies on.
51 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Porto OPO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through OPO the routing covers 1,492 km against the 1,488 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 12m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bilbao BIO at 4h 13m and Bordeaux BOD at 4h 20m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 Lisbon, Faro FAO is 222 km away by great circle and carries 87 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 LIS. 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.
Plan Bristol to Lisbon 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 LIS 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 LIS airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Dubai to Lisbon
- The written lane, Lisbon to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
More pairs through BRS and LIS: Dublin to Bristol, Bristol to Prague, Berlin to Bristol, Bristol to Toulouse, Aberdeen to Bristol, Geneva to Bristol, Budapest to Bristol, Bristol to Hannover.