The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
IND Indianapolis to WAW Warsaw
Indianapolis International, the United States, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 7,629 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 41m
- Door to door
- 16h 26m
What IND to WAW looks like
The IND to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Indianapolis IND to Warsaw WAW is an ultra long sector of 7,629 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,629 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 41m.
Indianapolis IND is a large airport in the network held here, 107 scheduled destinations and 171.9 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Warsaw is 6 hours ahead of Indianapolis all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on IND to WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| IND to WAW | 0.14 | 1 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to IND | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg WAW to IND carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on IND 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 9h 41m block time on IND 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 IND | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At IND before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| IND to WAW in the air, estimated | 581 min | 14h 11m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 15h 41m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 16h 26m |
| Door to door | 986 min | 16h 26m |
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 IND to WAW is 16h 26m.
A courier who leaves Indianapolis at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 00:41 local and at the door by 02:56 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, nothing leaving Indianapolis inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 16h 26m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 6 of them join IND to WAW.
| Connecting at | IND to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto YYZ | 1.71 | 3 | 7,642 | 11h 38m |
| Chicago ORD | 18.14 | 1.57 | 7,805 | 11h 58m |
| Newark EWR | 6.43 | 0.86 | 7,901 | 12h 05m |
| Miami MIA | 1.14 | 0.57 | 10,137 | 14h 50m |
| San Francisco SFO | 2.14 | 0.71 | 12,538 | 17h 21m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 2 | 1.14 | 12,571 | 17h 51m |
6 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Toronto YYZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through YYZ the routing covers 7,642 km against the 7,629 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 38m 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 57m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chicago ORD at 11h 58m and Newark EWR at 12h 05m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through IND or WAW. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Eli Lilly, IndianapolisResearch and manufacturing at the group head office. An American cluster with European trial sites. Logistics through Indianapolis IND.
Plan Indianapolis 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 IND 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 IND airport entry
- The WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The written lane, Warsaw to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through IND and WAW: Atlanta to Indianapolis, Indianapolis to Chicago, Boston to Indianapolis, Detroit to Indianapolis, Indianapolis to Seattle, Indianapolis to San Francisco, New York to Indianapolis, Indianapolis to Houston.