The sector is held by Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FLR Florence to NTE Nantes
Peretola Airport, Italy, to Nantes Atlantique, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,065 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 52m
- Door to door
- 8h 37m
What FLR to NTE looks like
The FLR to NTE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Florence FLR to Nantes NTE is a short sector of 1,065 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,065 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 52m.
Florence FLR is a smaller airport in the network held here, 35 scheduled destinations and 66.2 departures a day. Nantes NTE has 89 destinations and 98 departures a day.
Florence and Nantes 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 FLR to NTE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLR to NTE | 0.57 | 4 | Volotea |
| NTE to FLR | 0.57 | 4 | Volotea |
One carrier holds the sector, Volotea, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on FLR 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 52m block time on FLR 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 FLR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FLR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FLR to NTE in the air, estimated | 112 min | 6h 22m |
| Formalities at NTE | 90 min | 7h 52m |
| Delivery run in Nantes | 45 min | 8h 37m |
| Door to door | 517 min | 8h 37m |
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 NTE is 8h 37m.
A courier who leaves Florence at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nantes at about 10:52 local and at the door by 13:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nantes, the last useful departure from Florence is around 13:53 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. 16 of them join FLR to NTE.
| Connecting at | FLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to NTE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris CDG | 7.43 | 5.43 | 1,251 | 4h 10m |
| Rome FCO | 4 | 1 | 1,487 | 4h 27m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 0.71 | 1,516 | 4h 32m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 5.43 | 1.14 | 1,531 | 4h 36m |
| London LGW | 2.71 | 2 | 1,636 | 4h 40m |
| Barcelona BCN | 4.43 | 3.14 | 1,512 | 4h 43m |
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Paris CDG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.4 times a day.
Through CDG the routing covers 1,251 km against the 1,065 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 10m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 18m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Rome FCO at 4h 27m and Munich MUC at 4h 32m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through FLR or NTE. 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.
- 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 Florence 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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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 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 FLR airport entry
- The NTE airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
More pairs through FLR and NTE: Frankfurt to Florence, Zurich to Florence, Dusseldorf to Florence, Florence to Paris, Florence to Helsinki, Florence to London, Florence to Catania, London to Florence.