The sector is held by TUI Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to SSH Sharm El Sheikh
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,025 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 21m
- Door to door
- 12h 06m
What EMA to SSH looks like
The EMA to SSH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Sharm El Sheikh SSH is a long haul sector of 4,025 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,025 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 21m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Sharm El Sheikh SSH has 62 destinations and 60.9 departures a day.
Sharm El Sheikh is 2 hours ahead of Derby and Nottingham all year.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 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 SSH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to SSH | 0.29 | 2 | TUI Airways |
| SSH to EMA | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, TUI Airways, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg SSH to EMA carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
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 2 departures a week on EMA to SSH, 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 5h 21m block time on EMA to SSH. 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 SSH in the air, estimated | 321 min | 9h 51m |
| Formalities at SSH | 90 min | 11h 21m |
| Delivery run in Sharm El Sheikh | 45 min | 12h 06m |
| Door to door | 726 min | 12h 06m |
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 SSH is 12h 06m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh at about 16:21 local and at the door by 18:36 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sharm El Sheikh, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 08:24 local.
At 12h 06m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 16 of them join EMA to SSH.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to SSH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 1.71 | 4,194 | 7h 35m |
| Naples NAP | 0.43 | 4 | 4,101 | 7h 29m |
| Hurghada HRG | 0.29 | 0.43 | 4,169 | 7h 03m |
| Brussels BRU | 0.29 | 0.29 | 4,026 | 7h 13m |
| London STN | 0.43 | 0.29 | 4,030 | 7h 23m |
| Berlin BER | 0.29 | 0.29 | 4,216 | 7h 24m |
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Manchester MAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MAN the routing covers 4,194 km against the 4,025 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 35m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 14m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Naples NAP at 7h 29m and Hurghada HRG at 7h 03m 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 Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada HRG is 107 km away by great circle and carries 87 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 SSH. 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 Sharm El Sheikh 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 SSH 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 SSH airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Egypt
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and SSH: 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.