The sector is held by Transavia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EIN Eindhoven to BIO Bilbao
Eindhoven Airport, the Netherlands, to Bilbao Airport, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,099 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 54m
- Door to door
- 8h 39m
What EIN to BIO looks like
The EIN to BIO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Eindhoven EIN to Bilbao BIO is a short sector of 1,099 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,099 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 54m.
Eindhoven EIN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 74 scheduled destinations and 72.4 departures a day. Bilbao BIO has 69 destinations and 93.3 departures a day.
Eindhoven and Bilbao 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 EIN to BIO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIN to BIO | 0.43 | 3 | Transavia |
| BIO to EIN | 0.57 | 4 | Transavia |
One carrier holds the sector, Transavia, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 7 departures a week on EIN to BIO, 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 54m block time on EIN to BIO. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EIN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EIN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EIN to BIO in the air, estimated | 114 min | 6h 24m |
| Formalities at BIO | 90 min | 7h 54m |
| Delivery run in Bilbao | 45 min | 8h 39m |
| Door to door | 519 min | 8h 39m |
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 EIN to BIO is 8h 39m.
A courier who leaves Eindhoven at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bilbao at about 10:54 local and at the door by 13:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bilbao, the last useful departure from Eindhoven is around 13:51 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. 27 of them join EIN to BIO.
| Connecting at | EIN to hub, flights a day | Hub to BIO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona BCN | 1.71 | 4.43 | 1,624 | 4h 40m |
| Ibiza IBZ | 2.57 | 2.14 | 2,042 | 4h 44m |
| Valencia VLC | 3 | 1 | 1,875 | 4h 45m |
| Palma PMI | 2.43 | 4.29 | 1,968 | 4h 54m |
| Porto OPO | 1.14 | 0.86 | 2,087 | 5h 02m |
| Alicante ALC | 3.14 | 2.57 | 2,128 | 5h 05m |
27 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Barcelona BCN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BCN the routing covers 1,624 km against the 1,099 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 40m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 46m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Ibiza IBZ at 4h 44m and Valencia VLC 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 Eindhoven, Rotterdam RTM is 86 km away by great circle and carries 62 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Bilbao, Bordeaux BOD is 244 km away by great circle and carries 84 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 EIN or BIO. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- ASML, VeldhovenLithography systems, including the only extreme ultraviolet machines in production. A single reticle or optic can hold up a fab on another continent. Logistics through Eindhoven EIN.
Plan Eindhoven to Bilbao 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.
min
min
min
min
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 EIN to BIO 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 EIN airport entry
- The BIO airport entry
- Hand carry into the Netherlands
- Hand carry into Spain
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Dresden
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through EIN and BIO: Paris to Bilbao, Seville to Bilbao, Bilbao to Casablanca, Bristol to Bilbao, Barcelona to Eindhoven, Copenhagen to Eindhoven, Eindhoven to Detroit, Eindhoven to Prague.