The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EDI Edinburgh to NTE Nantes
Edinburgh Airport, the United Kingdom, to Nantes Atlantique, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 986 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 46m
- Door to door
- 8h 31m
What EDI to NTE looks like
The EDI to NTE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Edinburgh EDI to Nantes NTE is a short sector of 986 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 986 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 46m.
Edinburgh EDI is a major hub in the network held here, 163 scheduled destinations and 217.5 departures a day. Nantes NTE has 89 destinations and 98 departures a day.
Nantes is one hour ahead of Edinburgh 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 EDI to NTE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDI to NTE | 0.43 | 3 | Ryanair |
| NTE to EDI | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg NTE to EDI carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on EDI to NTE, 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 46m block time on EDI to NTE. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EDI | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EDI before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EDI to NTE in the air, estimated | 106 min | 6h 16m |
| Formalities at NTE | 90 min | 7h 46m |
| Delivery run in Nantes | 45 min | 8h 31m |
| Door to door | 511 min | 8h 31m |
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 EDI to NTE is 8h 31m.
A courier who leaves Edinburgh at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nantes at about 11:46 local and at the door by 14:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nantes, the last useful departure from Edinburgh is around 12:59 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 EDI to NTE.
| Connecting at | EDI to hub, flights a day | Hub to NTE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin DUB | 24.29 | 1.86 | 1,108 | 3h 53m |
| London STN | 6.71 | 1.29 | 1,053 | 4h 03m |
| Paris CDG | 6.14 | 5.43 | 1,241 | 4h 10m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 6.86 | 4.43 | 1,399 | 4h 34m |
| Geneva GVA | 2 | 2 | 1,861 | 4h 45m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 3.43 | 1.14 | 1,843 | 4h 51m |
52 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dublin DUB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DUB the routing covers 1,108 km against the 986 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 07m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, London STN at 4h 03m and Paris CDG at 4h 10m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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 EDI or NTE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-NazaireCentre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. Logistics through Nantes NTE.
Plan Edinburgh to Nantes 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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Restrictions
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 EDI to NTE 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 EDI airport entry
- The NTE airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
More pairs through EDI and NTE: Dublin to Edinburgh, Dubai to Edinburgh, Derby and Nottingham to Edinburgh, Stuttgart to Edinburgh, Toulouse to Edinburgh, Bratislava to Edinburgh, Edinburgh to Bristol, Birmingham to Edinburgh.