The sector is held by Norwegian Air Shuttle and Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
GOT Gothenburg to ALC Alicante
Gothenburg Landvetter, Sweden, to Alicante-Elche Airport, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,348 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 30m
- Door to door
- 10h 15m
What GOT to ALC looks like
The GOT to ALC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Gothenburg GOT to Alicante ALC is a medium haul sector of 2,348 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,348 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 30m.
Gothenburg GOT is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 70 scheduled destinations and 76.5 departures a day. Alicante ALC has 145 destinations and 231.5 departures a day.
Alicante carries about 3 times the departures of Gothenburg, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Gothenburg and Alicante 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 GOT to ALC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOT to ALC | 2.57 | 18 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair |
| ALC to GOT | 2.57 | 18 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair |
Two carriers hold the sector, Norwegian Air Shuttle and Ryanair, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 36 departures a week on GOT to ALC, 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 30m block time on GOT to ALC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to GOT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At GOT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| GOT to ALC in the air, estimated | 210 min | 8h 00m |
| Formalities at ALC | 90 min | 9h 30m |
| Delivery run in Alicante | 45 min | 10h 15m |
| Door to door | 615 min | 10h 15m |
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 GOT to ALC is 10h 15m.
A courier who leaves Gothenburg at 09:00 local is on the ground in Alicante at about 12:30 local and at the door by 14:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Alicante, the last useful departure from Gothenburg is around 12:15 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. 32 of them join GOT to ALC.
| Connecting at | GOT to hub, flights a day | Hub to ALC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels BRU | 1.86 | 8 | 2,363 | 5h 16m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 4.14 | 3.29 | 2,394 | 5h 21m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 1 | 1.57 | 2,349 | 5h 24m |
| Palma PMI | 2 | 4.43 | 2,446 | 5h 26m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 3.71 | 1.14 | 2,376 | 5h 32m |
| Berlin BER | 0.71 | 0.86 | 2,500 | 5h 34m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at GOT in the afternoon actually flies on.
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brussels BRU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BRU the routing covers 2,363 km against the 2,348 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Copenhagen CPH at 5h 21m and Dusseldorf DUS at 5h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Gothenburg, Aalborg AAL is 159 km away by great circle and carries 21 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Alicante, Valencia VLC is 134 km away by great circle and carries 101 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 GOT or ALC. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Volvo Cars, Gothenburg TorslandaAssembly, engineering and the group head office. Copenhagen carries the long haul when Gothenburg does not. Logistics through Gothenburg GOT.
Plan Gothenburg to Alicante 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 GOT to ALC 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 GOT airport entry
- The ALC airport entry
- Hand carry into Sweden
- Hand carry into Spain
- The route calculator
More pairs through GOT and ALC: Derby and Nottingham to Alicante, Eindhoven to Alicante, Alicante to Stockholm, Alicante to Oslo, Hamburg to Alicante, Toulouse to Alicante, Bratislava to Alicante, Paris to Alicante.