The sector is held by Air Atlanta Icelandic.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to KEF Reykjavik
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Keflavik International, Iceland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,737 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 43m
- Door to door
- 9h 28m
What EMA to KEF looks like
The EMA to KEF sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Reykjavik KEF is a medium haul sector of 1,737 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,737 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 43m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Reykjavik KEF has 76 destinations and 99 departures a day.
Reykjavik runs no time shift at all of Derby and Nottingham in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 KEF from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to KEF | 0.14 | 1 | Air Atlanta Icelandic |
| KEF to EMA | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Atlanta Icelandic, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg KEF to EMA carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
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 1 departure a week on EMA to KEF, 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 43m block time on EMA to KEF. 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 KEF in the air, estimated | 163 min | 7h 13m |
| Formalities at KEF | 90 min | 8h 43m |
| Delivery run in Reykjavik | 45 min | 9h 28m |
| Door to door | 568 min | 9h 28m |
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 KEF is 9h 28m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Reykjavik at about 11:43 local and at the door by 13:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Reykjavik, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 13:02 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 KEF.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to KEF, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh EDI | 1.57 | 1 | 1,756 | 4h 34m |
| Dublin DUB | 2.57 | 1.43 | 1,834 | 4h 40m |
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 1.14 | 1,739 | 4h 45m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 3.86 | 2,745 | 6h 07m |
| Barcelona BCN | 1.29 | 1.43 | 4,289 | 7h 58m |
| Alicante ALC | 4.43 | 0.86 | 4,827 | 8h 11m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Edinburgh EDI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through EDI the routing covers 1,756 km against the 1,737 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 34m 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dublin DUB at 4h 40m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through EMA or KEF. 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 Reykjavik 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 KEF 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 KEF airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Iceland
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and KEF: 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.