The sector is held by Jet2.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to FNC Madeira
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Madeira Airport, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,557 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 46m
- Door to door
- 10h 31m
What EMA to FNC looks like
The EMA to FNC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Madeira FNC is a medium haul sector of 2,557 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,557 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 46m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Madeira FNC has 67 destinations and 63.9 departures a day.
Derby and Nottingham and Madeira 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 EMA to FNC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to FNC | 0.14 | 1 | Jet2 |
| FNC to EMA | 0.14 | 1 | Jet2 |
One carrier holds the sector, Jet2, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At about once 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 2 departures a week on EMA to FNC, 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 46m block time on EMA to FNC. 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 FNC in the air, estimated | 226 min | 8h 16m |
| Formalities at FNC | 90 min | 9h 46m |
| Delivery run in Madeira | 45 min | 10h 31m |
| Door to door | 631 min | 10h 31m |
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 FNC is 10h 31m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Madeira at about 12:46 local and at the door by 15:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Madeira, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 11:59 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. 24 of them join EMA to FNC.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to FNC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faro FAO | 3.14 | 0.57 | 2,768 | 5h 32m |
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 1.43 | 2,656 | 5h 55m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 0.71 | 2,925 | 6h 21m |
| Las Palmas LPA | 1.14 | 1.14 | 3,547 | 6h 40m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Faro FAO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through FAO the routing covers 2,768 km against the 2,557 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 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 46m 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 5h 55m and Paris CDG at 6h 21m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through EMA or FNC. 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 Madeira 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 FNC 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 FNC airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and FNC: Dublin to Derby and Nottingham, Barcelona to Derby and Nottingham, Derby and Nottingham to Manchester, Copenhagen to Derby and Nottingham, Brussels to Derby and Nottingham, Berlin to Derby and Nottingham, Derby and Nottingham to Prague, Derby and Nottingham to Stuttgart.