The sector is held by Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings and SilkAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to HER Heraklion
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,251 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 22m
- Door to door
- 10h 07m
What CGN to HER looks like
The CGN to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,251 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,251 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 22m.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion is one hour ahead of Cologne all year.
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 HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to HER | 4.14 | 29 | Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings, SilkAir |
| HER to CGN | 3.14 | 22 | Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.1 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 51 departures a week on CGN to HER, 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 22m block time on CGN to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 202 min | 7h 52m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 9h 22m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 10h 07m |
| Door to door | 607 min | 10h 07m |
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 HER is 10h 07m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 13:22 local and at the door by 15:37 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 11:23 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 HER.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tirana TIA | 1.14 | 0.71 | 2,252 | 5h 07m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.43 | 3.57 | 2,426 | 5h 10m |
| Stuttgart STR | 0.71 | 3.57 | 2,261 | 5h 11m |
| Athens ATH | 1.29 | 14.57 | 2,262 | 5h 12m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.43 | 3.43 | 2,285 | 5h 18m |
| Budapest BUD | 1 | 0.87 | 2,390 | 5h 18m |
With 4.1 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 Tirana TIA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through TIA the routing covers 2,252 km against the 2,251 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 07m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Leipzig LEJ at 5h 10m and Stuttgart STR at 5h 11m 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 HER. 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 Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGN and HER: Berlin to Cologne, Manchester to Cologne, Cologne to Derby and Nottingham, Cologne to Prague, Stuttgart to Cologne, Cologne to Lisbon, Cologne to Dusseldorf, Cologne to Stockholm.