The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to BUD Budapest
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,578 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 31m
- Door to door
- 9h 16m
What EMA to BUD looks like
The EMA to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Budapest BUD is a medium haul sector of 1,578 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,578 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 31m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Budapest carries about 3 times the departures of Derby and Nottingham, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Budapest 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 BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to BUD | 0.29 | 2 | Ryanair |
| BUD to EMA | 0.29 | 2 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, 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 EMA 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 2h 31m block time on EMA 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 EMA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EMA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EMA to BUD in the air, estimated | 151 min | 7h 01m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 8h 31m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 9h 16m |
| Door to door | 556 min | 9h 16m |
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 BUD is 9h 16m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 12:31 local and at the door by 14:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 12:14 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. 48 of them join EMA to BUD.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cologne CGN | 1.86 | 1 | 1,579 | 4h 23m |
| Krakow KRK | 0.86 | 1.14 | 1,785 | 4h 35m |
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 1.57 | 1,740 | 4h 45m |
| Bergamo BGY | 0.57 | 2.29 | 1,883 | 4h 48m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 4.71 | 1,751 | 4h 51m |
| Rome CIA | 0.71 | 2.57 | 2,428 | 5h 06m |
48 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 about once a day.
Through CGN the routing covers 1,579 km against the 1,578 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 23m 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 52m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Krakow KRK at 4h 35m and Manchester MAN at 4h 45m 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 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 EMA or BUD. 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.
Plan Derby and Nottingham 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 EMA 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 EMA airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and BUD: Frankfurt to Budapest, Amsterdam to Budapest, Paris to Budapest, London to Budapest, Copenhagen to Budapest, Barcelona to Budapest, Budapest to Tel Aviv, Munich to Budapest.