The sector is held by Transavia and TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands).
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EIN Eindhoven to HER Heraklion
Eindhoven Airport, the Netherlands, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,386 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 33m
- Door to door
- 10h 18m
What EIN to HER looks like
The EIN to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Eindhoven EIN to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,386 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,386 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 33m.
Eindhoven EIN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 74 scheduled destinations and 72.4 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion is one hour ahead of Eindhoven 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 EIN to HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EIN to HER | 1.57 | 11 | Transavia, TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands) |
| HER to EIN | 1.57 | 11 | Transavia, TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands) |
Two carriers hold the sector, Transavia and TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands), which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 22 departures a week on EIN 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 33m block time on EIN 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 EIN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EIN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EIN to HER in the air, estimated | 213 min | 8h 03m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 9h 33m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 10h 18m |
| Door to door | 618 min | 10h 18m |
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 HER is 10h 18m.
A courier who leaves Eindhoven at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 13:33 local and at the door by 15:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Eindhoven is around 11:12 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. 28 of them join EIN to HER.
| Connecting at | EIN to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bratislava BTS | 0.71 | 1 | 2,493 | 5h 11m |
| Tirana TIA | 1.57 | 0.71 | 2,387 | 5h 18m |
| Athens ATH | 0.71 | 14.57 | 2,398 | 5h 22m |
| Bologna BLQ | 1.71 | 1 | 2,446 | 5h 23m |
| Belgrade BEG | 0.71 | 0.86 | 2,459 | 5h 24m |
| Cluj CLJ | 0.71 | 0.71 | 2,704 | 5h 27m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at EIN in the afternoon actually flies on.
28 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bratislava BTS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through BTS the routing covers 2,493 km against the 2,386 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 11m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tirana TIA at 5h 18m and Athens ATH at 5h 22m 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 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through EIN or HER. 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 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 EIN 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 EIN airport entry
- The HER airport entry
- Hand carry into the Netherlands
- Hand carry into Greece
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Dresden
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through EIN and HER: Barcelona to Eindhoven, Copenhagen to Eindhoven, Eindhoven to Detroit, Eindhoven to Prague, Manchester to Eindhoven, Eindhoven to Vienna, Eindhoven to Rome, Eindhoven to Budapest.