The sector is held by Corendon Air, Freebird Airlines, LATAM Argentina, Pegasus, Sun Express and Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to AYT Antalya
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Antalya Airport, Türkiye. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,432 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 36m
- Door to door
- 10h 21m
What CGN to AYT looks like
The CGN to AYT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Antalya AYT is a medium haul sector of 2,432 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,432 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 36m.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Antalya AYT has 182 destinations and 518.9 departures a day.
Antalya carries about 3.1 times the departures of Cologne, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Antalya runs 2 hours ahead of Cologne in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 CGN to AYT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to AYT | 15.71 | 110 | Corendon Air, Freebird Airlines, LATAM Argentina, Pegasus, Sun Express |
| AYT to CGN | 13.36 | 93.5 | Corendon Air, Freebird Airlines, Pegasus, Sun Express, Eurowings, LATAM Argentina |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 15.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 203.5 departures a week on CGN to AYT, 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 3h 36m block time on CGN to AYT. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CGN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGN to AYT in the air, estimated | 216 min | 8h 06m |
| Formalities at AYT | 90 min | 9h 36m |
| Delivery run in Antalya | 45 min | 10h 21m |
| Door to door | 621 min | 10h 21m |
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 CGN to AYT is 10h 21m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Antalya at about 14:36 local and at the door by 16:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Antalya, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 10:09 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. 56 of them join CGN to AYT.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to AYT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofia SOF | 1.29 | 1.86 | 2,433 | 5h 06m |
| Pristina PRN | 1.43 | 1.71 | 2,445 | 5h 07m |
| Sarajevo SJJ | 0.71 | 1.14 | 2,453 | 5h 08m |
| Skopje SKP | 0.71 | 2.57 | 2,451 | 5h 08m |
| Izmir ADB | 4.29 | 3.14 | 2,458 | 5h 12m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.43 | 4.86 | 2,540 | 5h 19m |
With 15.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
56 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sofia SOF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SOF the routing covers 2,433 km against the 2,432 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Pristina PRN at 5h 07m and Sarajevo SJJ at 5h 08m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Cologne, Dusseldorf DUS is 54 km away by great circle and carries 176 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Antalya, Rhodes RHO is 248 km away by great circle and carries 117 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 CGN or AYT. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Ford, Dearborn and CologneAssembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
Plan Cologne to Antalya 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 CGN to AYT 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 CGN airport entry
- The AYT airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Türkiye
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGN and AYT: Dusseldorf to Antalya, Berlin to Antalya, Prague to Antalya, Stuttgart to Antalya, Hannover to Antalya, Hamburg to Antalya, Antalya to Dubai, Bratislava to Antalya.