The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to PRG Prague
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Vaclav Havel Airport, Czechia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,119 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 56m
- Door to door
- 8h 41m
What EMA to PRG looks like
The EMA to PRG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Prague PRG is a short sector of 1,119 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,119 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 56m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Prague PRG has 191 destinations and 251.7 departures a day.
Prague carries about 3.4 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.
Prague 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 PRG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to PRG | 0.29 | 2 | Ryanair |
| PRG 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 PRG, 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 56m block time on EMA to PRG. 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 PRG in the air, estimated | 116 min | 6h 26m |
| Formalities at PRG | 90 min | 7h 56m |
| Delivery run in Prague | 45 min | 8h 41m |
| Door to door | 521 min | 8h 41m |
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 PRG is 8h 41m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Prague at about 11:56 local and at the door by 14:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Prague, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 12:49 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. 52 of them join EMA to PRG.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to PRG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cologne CGN | 1.86 | 0.71 | 1,131 | 3h 55m |
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 2.43 | 1,278 | 4h 09m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 5.86 | 1,356 | 4h 20m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 1.57 | 1.14 | 1,712 | 4h 31m |
| Bergamo BGY | 0.57 | 2.57 | 1,725 | 4h 34m |
| Dublin DUB | 2.57 | 2.29 | 1,791 | 4h 36m |
52 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 1,131 km against the 1,119 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 55m 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 59m 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 4h 09m and Paris CDG at 4h 20m 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 Prague, Leipzig LEJ is 205 km away by great circle and carries 85 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 PRG. 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.
- Skoda, Mlada BoleslavAssembly and component production. An hour from Prague, and Prague is the gate. Logistics through Prague PRG.
Plan Derby and Nottingham to Prague 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 PRG 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 PRG airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Czechia
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The written lane, Sharjah to Prague
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and PRG: 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 Stuttgart, Cologne to Derby and Nottingham.