The sector is held by EAT Leipzig.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to BSL Basel
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 857 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 36m
- Door to door
- 8h 21m
What EMA to BSL looks like
The EMA to BSL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Basel BSL is a short sector of 857 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 857 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 36m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Basel BSL has 122 destinations and 125.1 departures a day.
Basel is one hour ahead of Derby and Nottingham 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 EMA to BSL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to BSL | 0.43 | 3 | EAT Leipzig |
| BSL to EMA | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, EAT Leipzig, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg BSL to EMA carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on EMA to BSL, 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 36m block time on EMA to BSL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EMA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EMA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EMA to BSL in the air, estimated | 96 min | 6h 06m |
| Formalities at BSL | 90 min | 7h 36m |
| Delivery run in Basel | 45 min | 8h 21m |
| Door to door | 501 min | 8h 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 EMA to BSL is 8h 21m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Basel at about 11:36 local and at the door by 13:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Basel, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 13:09 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. 43 of them join EMA to BSL.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to BSL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cologne CGN | 1.86 | 0.71 | 986 | 3h 42m |
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 0.71 | 1,029 | 3h 50m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 3 | 905 | 3h 50m |
| Dublin DUB | 2.57 | 0.57 | 1,505 | 4h 15m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 1.57 | 0.71 | 1,563 | 4h 19m |
| Wroclaw WRO | 0.71 | 0.86 | 2,040 | 4h 45m |
43 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Cologne CGN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through CGN the routing covers 986 km against the 857 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 42m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 06m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Manchester MAN at 3h 50m and Paris CDG at 3h 50m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Derby and Nottingham, Birmingham BHX is 51 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 Basel, Zurich ZRH is 78 km away by great circle and carries 223 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.
Basel BSL is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Derby and Nottingham late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Basel BSL, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are restricted between 23:00 and 06:00 local under the airport's noise rules.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Derby and Nottingham later than about 20:24 local arrives at BSL after it has closed for the night, on the 1h 36m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through EMA or BSL. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Rolls-Royce, DerbyCivil large engine assembly and test. An engine on wing that is grounded is an aircraft grounded. Logistics through Derby and Nottingham EMA.
- Novartis, BaselResearch and manufacturing at the group head office. Basel sits where three countries meet and uses three airports. Logistics through Basel BSL.
- Roche, Basel and KaiseraugstPharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Diagnostics move on shorter clocks than most freight can hold. Logistics through Basel BSL.
- Lonza, Visp and BaselContract manufacturing of biologics. Contract manufacturing runs to somebody else's deadline, which makes it tighter. Logistics through Basel BSL.
Plan Derby and Nottingham to Basel 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 EMA to BSL 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 EMA airport entry
- The BSL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and BSL: Basel to Frankfurt, Berlin to Basel, Basel to Hamburg, Basel to Budapest, Basel to Prague, Basel to Lisbon, Basel to Tel Aviv, Basel to Dusseldorf.