The sector is held by Condor, Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings and TUIfly.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DUS Dusseldorf to HER Heraklion
Dusseldorf Airport, Germany, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,303 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 26m
- Door to door
- 10h 11m
What DUS to HER looks like
The DUS to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dusseldorf DUS to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,303 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,303 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 26m.
Dusseldorf DUS is a major hub in the network held here, 176 scheduled destinations and 290.7 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion is one hour ahead of Dusseldorf 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 DUS to HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUS to HER | 5.86 | 41 | Condor, Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings, TUIfly |
| HER to DUS | 5.43 | 38 | Condor, Corendon Airlines Europe, Eurowings, TUIfly |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 5.9 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 79 departures a week on DUS to HER, 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 26m block time on DUS to HER. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DUS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DUS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DUS to HER in the air, estimated | 206 min | 7h 56m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 9h 26m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 10h 11m |
| Door to door | 611 min | 10h 11m |
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 DUS to HER is 10h 11m.
A courier who leaves Dusseldorf at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 13:26 local and at the door by 15:41 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Dusseldorf is around 11:19 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. 65 of them join DUS to HER.
| Connecting at | DUS to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salzburg SZG | 1.57 | 0.71 | 2,305 | 5h 03m |
| Graz GRZ | 0.86 | 0.57 | 2,319 | 5h 07m |
| Athens ATH | 3.43 | 14.57 | 2,312 | 5h 15m |
| Belgrade BEG | 1.14 | 0.86 | 2,366 | 5h 17m |
| Bologna BLQ | 0.71 | 1 | 2,384 | 5h 18m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 3.43 | 3.43 | 2,335 | 5h 21m |
With 5.9 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.
65 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Salzburg SZG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through SZG the routing covers 2,305 km against the 2,303 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 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 1h 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Graz GRZ at 5h 07m and Athens ATH at 5h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Dusseldorf, Cologne CGN is 54 km away by great circle and carries 154 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Dusseldorf DUS is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Dusseldorf that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Heraklion.
Dusseldorf DUS, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through DUS or HER. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
- Siemens Energy, Berlin and MuelheimGas turbine manufacture and service. A turbine out of service is a power station out of service. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
Plan Dusseldorf to Heraklion 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 DUS to HER 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 DUS airport entry
- The HER airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Greece
- The written lane, Dubai to Dusseldorf
- The route calculator
More pairs through DUS and HER: Munich to Dusseldorf, London to Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf to Amsterdam, Zurich to Dusseldorf, Paris to Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf to Vienna, Frankfurt to Dusseldorf, Copenhagen to Dusseldorf.