The sector is held by Corendon Airlines Europe.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to DUS Dusseldorf
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Dusseldorf Airport, Germany. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 54 km
- Block, estimated
- 35 min
- Door to door
- 7h 20m
What CGN to DUS looks like
The CGN to DUS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Dusseldorf DUS is a short sector of 54 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 54 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 35 min.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Dusseldorf DUS has 176 destinations and 290.7 departures a day.
Cologne and Dusseldorf 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 DUS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to DUS | 0.29 | 2 | Corendon Airlines Europe |
| DUS to CGN | 0.29 | 2 | Corendon Airlines Europe |
One carrier holds the sector, Corendon Airlines Europe, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times 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 4.1 departures a week on CGN to DUS, 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 35 min block time on CGN to DUS. 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 DUS in the air, estimated | 35 min | 5h 05m |
| Formalities at DUS | 90 min | 6h 35m |
| Delivery run in Dusseldorf | 45 min | 7h 20m |
| Door to door | 440 min | 7h 20m |
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 DUS is 7h 20m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dusseldorf at about 09:35 local and at the door by 11:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dusseldorf, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 15:10 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. 76 of them join CGN to DUS.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to DUS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuttgart STR | 0.71 | 0.57 | 622 | 3h 10m |
| Berlin BER | 4.71 | 3.14 | 945 | 3h 38m |
| Paris CDG | 0.71 | 5.43 | 781 | 3h 39m |
| Zurich ZRH | 1.86 | 7 | 836 | 3h 44m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 2 | 1,054 | 3h 48m |
| Munich MUC | 6 | 14 | 922 | 3h 52m |
76 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Stuttgart STR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through STR the routing covers 622 km against the 54 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 10m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 35m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Berlin BER at 3h 38m and Paris CDG at 3h 39m 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 54 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 51 min, 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 Cologne, Frankfurt FRA is 136 km away by great circle and carries 274 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Dusseldorf, Eindhoven EIN is 98 km away by great circle and carries 74 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Dusseldorf DUS is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Cologne late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Dusseldorf DUS, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Cologne later than about 21:25 local arrives at DUS after it has closed for the night, on the 35 min block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CGN or DUS. 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.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
- Siemens Energy, Berlin and MuelheimGas turbine manufacture and service. A turbine out of service is a power station out of service. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
Plan Cologne to Dusseldorf 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 DUS 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 DUS airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- The written lane, Dubai to Dusseldorf
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGN and DUS: Berlin to Cologne, Manchester to Cologne, Cologne to Derby and Nottingham, Cologne to Prague, Stuttgart to Cologne, Cologne to Lisbon, Cologne to Stockholm, Cologne to Tel Aviv.