The sector is held by EAT Leipzig and Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to BUD Budapest
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 958 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 43m
- Door to door
- 8h 28m
What CGN to BUD looks like
The CGN to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Budapest BUD is a short sector of 958 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 958 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 43m.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Cologne and Budapest 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 CGN to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to BUD | 1 | 7 | EAT Leipzig, Eurowings |
| BUD to CGN | 0.43 | 3 | Eurowings |
Two carriers hold the sector, EAT Leipzig and Eurowings, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: CGN to BUD runs about once a day, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 10 departures a week on CGN to BUD, 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 43m block time on CGN to BUD. 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 BUD in the air, estimated | 103 min | 6h 13m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 7h 43m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 8h 28m |
| Door to door | 508 min | 8h 28m |
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 BUD is 8h 28m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 10:43 local and at the door by 12:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 14:02 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. 78 of them join CGN to BUD.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.43 | 0.71 | 1,035 | 3h 32m |
| Vienna VIE | 3.29 | 3.57 | 960 | 3h 40m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 0.86 | 981 | 3h 42m |
| Stuttgart STR | 0.71 | 2 | 1,042 | 3h 47m |
| Basel BSL | 0.71 | 2.86 | 1,245 | 3h 54m |
| Berlin BER | 4.71 | 3 | 1,152 | 3h 56m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CGN in the afternoon actually flies on.
78 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Leipzig LEJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through LEJ the routing covers 1,035 km against the 958 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 32m 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 49m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vienna VIE at 3h 40m and Prague PRG at 3h 42m 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 Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 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 BUD. 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 Budapest 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 BUD 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 BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
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