The sector is held by Aer Lingus and Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DUB Dublin to EDI Edinburgh
Dublin Airport, Ireland, to Edinburgh Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 24.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 337 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 00m
- Door to door
- 7h 45m
What DUB to EDI looks like
The DUB to EDI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dublin DUB to Edinburgh EDI is a short sector of 337 km by great circle, flown nonstop 24.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 337 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 00m.
Dublin DUB is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 462.1 departures a day. Edinburgh EDI has 163 destinations and 217.5 departures a day.
Dublin and Edinburgh 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 DUB to EDI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUB to EDI | 24.14 | 169 | Aer Lingus, Ryanair |
| EDI to DUB | 24.29 | 170 | Aer Lingus, Ryanair |
Two carriers hold the sector, Aer Lingus and Ryanair, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 24.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 339 departures a week on DUB to EDI, 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 00m block time on DUB to EDI. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DUB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DUB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DUB to EDI in the air, estimated | 60 min | 5h 30m |
| Formalities at EDI | 90 min | 7h 00m |
| Delivery run in Edinburgh | 45 min | 7h 45m |
| Door to door | 465 min | 7h 45m |
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 DUB to EDI is 7h 45m.
A courier who leaves Dublin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Edinburgh at about 10:00 local and at the door by 12:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Edinburgh, the last useful departure from Dublin is around 14:45 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. 104 of them join DUB to EDI.
| Connecting at | DUB to hub, flights a day | Hub to EDI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derby and Nottingham EMA | 2.57 | 1.57 | 707 | 3h 03m |
| Birmingham BHX | 16.29 | 3 | 724 | 3h 19m |
| Bristol BRS | 9.86 | 3.14 | 841 | 3h 29m |
| London LTN | 5.43 | 3.57 | 928 | 3h 37m |
| London LHR | 20.57 | 11.43 | 982 | 3h 57m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 3 | 1.14 | 1,760 | 4h 30m |
With 24.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
104 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Derby and Nottingham EMA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through EMA the routing covers 707 km against the 337 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 03m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Birmingham BHX at 3h 19m and Bristol BRS at 3h 29m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 337 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 5h 16m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Dublin, Belfast BFS is 137 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Edinburgh, Glasgow GLA is 67 km away by great circle and carries 98 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 DUB or EDI. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Intel, LeixlipWafer fabrication in Europe. Ireland's fab, supplied from across Europe and the United States. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
- Pfizer, Ringaskiddy and Grange CastleActive ingredient and biologics manufacturing. Ireland manufactures for the world and ships against timepoints. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
- MSD, Carlow and BallydineBiologics and active ingredient manufacturing. The same Irish pattern. Logistics through Dublin DUB.
Plan Dublin to Edinburgh 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 DUB to EDI 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 DUB airport entry
- The EDI airport entry
- Hand carry into Ireland
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Dublin
- The written lane, Dubai to Dublin
- The written lane, Dublin to Boston
- The route calculator
More pairs through DUB and EDI: Dublin to London, Manchester to Dublin, Dublin to Amsterdam, Paris to Dublin, Barcelona to Dublin, Dublin to Frankfurt, Dublin to Madrid, Munich to Dublin.