The sector is held by British Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LCY London to FLR Florence
London City Airport, the United Kingdom, to Peretola Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,193 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 01m
- Door to door
- 8h 46m
What LCY to FLR looks like
The LCY to FLR sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LCY to Florence FLR is a short sector of 1,193 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,193 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 01m.
London LCY is a smaller airport in the network held here, 38 scheduled destinations and 71 departures a day. Florence FLR has 35 destinations and 66.2 departures a day.
Florence is one hour ahead of London 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 LCY to FLR from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCY to FLR | 2.57 | 18 | British Airways |
| FLR to LCY | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, British Airways, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg FLR to LCY carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 18 departures a week on LCY to FLR, 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 01m block time on LCY to FLR. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LCY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LCY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LCY to FLR in the air, estimated | 121 min | 6h 31m |
| Formalities at FLR | 90 min | 8h 01m |
| Delivery run in Florence | 45 min | 8h 46m |
| Door to door | 526 min | 8h 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 LCY to FLR is 8h 46m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Florence at about 12:01 local and at the door by 14:16 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Florence, the last useful departure from London is around 12:44 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. 9 of them join LCY to FLR.
| Connecting at | LCY to hub, flights a day | Hub to FLR, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg City LUX | 4.43 | 0.57 | 1,232 | 4h 04m |
| Zurich ZRH | 6.14 | 4.86 | 1,216 | 4h 17m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 10.71 | 5.86 | 1,393 | 4h 21m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 1.57 | 5.43 | 1,339 | 4h 29m |
| Barcelona BCN | 0.86 | 4.57 | 1,944 | 5h 08m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.43 | 3.57 | 2,526 | 5h 43m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LCY in the afternoon actually flies on.
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Luxembourg City LUX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LUX the routing covers 1,232 km against the 1,193 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 04m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 03m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Zurich ZRH at 4h 17m and Amsterdam AMS at 4h 21m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London LHR is 36 km away by great circle and carries 212 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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 LCY or FLR. 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.
Plan London to Florence 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 LCY to FLR 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 LCY airport entry
- The FLR airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Italy
- The route calculator
More pairs through LCY and FLR: Frankfurt to Florence, Zurich to Florence, Dusseldorf to Florence, Florence to Paris, Florence to Helsinki, Florence to Nantes, Florence to London, Florence to Catania.