The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GVA Geneva to WAW Warsaw
Geneva Airport, Switzerland, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,261 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 07m
- Door to door
- 8h 52m
What GVA to WAW looks like
The GVA to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Geneva GVA to Warsaw WAW is a medium haul sector of 1,261 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,261 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 07m.
Geneva GVA is a major hub in the network held here, 159 scheduled destinations and 227.4 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Geneva and Warsaw 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 GVA to WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GVA to WAW | 2.29 | 16 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to GVA | 2.43 | 17 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 33 departures a week on GVA to WAW, 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 07m block time on GVA to WAW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to GVA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At GVA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| GVA to WAW in the air, estimated | 127 min | 6h 37m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 8h 07m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 8h 52m |
| Door to door | 532 min | 8h 52m |
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 GVA to WAW is 8h 52m.
A courier who leaves Geneva at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 11:07 local and at the door by 13:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, the last useful departure from Geneva is around 13:38 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. 79 of them join GVA to WAW.
| Connecting at | GVA to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.57 | 0.71 | 1,336 | 3h 58m |
| Vienna VIE | 3 | 7.57 | 1,366 | 4h 06m |
| Berlin BER | 1.29 | 3.14 | 1,373 | 4h 06m |
| Prague PRG | 1.14 | 5 | 1,262 | 4h 06m |
| Lyon LYS | 1.14 | 1 | 1,455 | 4h 08m |
| Zurich ZRH | 9.14 | 4.86 | 1,261 | 4h 09m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at GVA in the afternoon actually flies on.
79 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Leipzig LEJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LEJ the routing covers 1,336 km against the 1,261 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 58m 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vienna VIE at 4h 06m and Berlin BER at 4h 06m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Geneva, Lyon LYS is 97 km away by great circle and carries 122 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 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.
Geneva GVA is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Geneva that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Warsaw.
Geneva GVA, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local.
Plan Geneva to Warsaw 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 GVA to WAW 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 GVA airport entry
- The WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into Switzerland
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Geneva
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The route calculator
More pairs through GVA and WAW: Geneva to London, Geneva to Madrid, Paris to Geneva, Amsterdam to Geneva, Zurich to Geneva, Barcelona to Geneva, Geneva to Frankfurt, Brussels to Geneva.