The sector is held by Vueling.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FLR Florence to LGW London
Peretola Airport, Italy, to Gatwick Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,180 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 00m
- Door to door
- 8h 45m
What FLR to LGW looks like
The FLR to LGW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Florence FLR to London LGW is a short sector of 1,180 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,180 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 00m.
Florence FLR is a smaller airport in the network held here, 35 scheduled destinations and 66.2 departures a day. London LGW has 203 destinations and 510.1 departures a day.
London carries about 7.7 times the departures of Florence, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
London is one hour behind of Florence 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 FLR to LGW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLR to LGW | 2.71 | 19 | Vueling |
| LGW to FLR | 2.71 | 19 | Vueling |
One carrier holds the sector, Vueling, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 37.9 departures a week on FLR to LGW, 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 2h 00m block time on FLR to LGW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to FLR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FLR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FLR to LGW in the air, estimated | 120 min | 6h 30m |
| Formalities at LGW | 90 min | 8h 00m |
| Delivery run in London | 45 min | 8h 45m |
| Door to door | 525 min | 8h 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 FLR to LGW is 8h 45m.
A courier who leaves Florence at 09:00 local is on the ground in London 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 London, the last useful departure from Florence 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. 23 of them join FLR to LGW.
| Connecting at | FLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to LGW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes NTE | 0.57 | 1.43 | 1,521 | 4h 02m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 0.57 | 1 | 1,380 | 4h 07m |
| Zurich ZRH | 4.86 | 2.14 | 1,210 | 4h 17m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 5.86 | 5.29 | 1,423 | 4h 23m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 1.57 | 1,421 | 4h 25m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 5.43 | 3.43 | 1,349 | 4h 30m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at FLR in the afternoon actually flies on.
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nantes NTE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through NTE the routing covers 1,521 km against the 1,180 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 02m 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 02m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dusseldorf DUS at 4h 07m and Zurich ZRH at 4h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Florence, Pisa PSA is 67 km away by great circle and carries 76 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London LHR is 41 km away by great circle and carries 212 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.
London LGW is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Florence late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
London LGW, night restrictions: Night movements are capped between 23:30 and 06:00 local under a seasonal quota.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Florence later than about 22:30 local arrives at LGW after it has closed for the night, on the 2h 00m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through FLR or LGW. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Baker Hughes, Aberdeen and FlorenceOilfield equipment and turbomachinery. The North Sea runs on parts that arrive the same day. Logistics through Florence FLR.
Plan Florence to London 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 FLR to LGW 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 FLR airport entry
- The LGW airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The route calculator
More pairs through FLR and LGW: Frankfurt to Florence, Zurich to Florence, Dusseldorf to Florence, Florence to Paris, Florence to Helsinki, Florence to Nantes, Florence to Catania, London to Florence.