The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal and Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LIS Lisbon to WAW Warsaw
Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,749 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 01m
- Door to door
- 10h 46m
What LIS to WAW looks like
The LIS to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lisbon LIS to Warsaw WAW is a medium haul sector of 2,749 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,749 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 01m.
Lisbon LIS is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 367.9 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Warsaw is one hour ahead of Lisbon 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 LIS to WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIS to WAW | 2.29 | 16 | LOT - Polish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Wizz Air |
| WAW to LIS | 2.29 | 16 | LOT - Polish Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Wizz Air |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on LIS 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 4h 01m block time on LIS 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 LIS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LIS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LIS to WAW in the air, estimated | 241 min | 8h 31m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 10h 01m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 10h 46m |
| Door to door | 646 min | 10h 46m |
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 LIS to WAW is 10h 46m.
A courier who leaves Lisbon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 14:01 local and at the door by 16:16 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, the last useful departure from Lisbon is around 10:44 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. 80 of them join LIS to WAW.
| Connecting at | LIS to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbao BIO | 2 | 0.57 | 2,750 | 5h 39m |
| Eindhoven EIN | 1.57 | 1.14 | 2,878 | 5h 40m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.86 | 0.71 | 2,780 | 5h 40m |
| Stuttgart STR | 1.29 | 1.14 | 2,749 | 5h 45m |
| Lyon LYS | 3.57 | 1 | 2,757 | 5h 46m |
| Geneva GVA | 7.14 | 2.29 | 2,757 | 5h 47m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LIS in the afternoon actually flies on.
80 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bilbao BIO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BIO the routing covers 2,750 km against the 2,749 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 39m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Eindhoven EIN at 5h 40m and Leipzig LEJ at 5h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Lisbon, Faro FAO is 222 km away by great circle and carries 87 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.
Plan Lisbon 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 LIS 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 LIS airport entry
- The WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into Portugal
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Lisbon
- The written lane, Lisbon to Sao Paulo
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The route calculator
More pairs through LIS and WAW: Madrid to Lisbon, Barcelona to Lisbon, London to Lisbon, Lisbon to Amsterdam, Frankfurt to Lisbon, Paris to Lisbon, Boston to Lisbon, Zurich to Lisbon.