The sector is held by Air Peace.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LGW London to LOS Lagos
Gatwick Airport, the United Kingdom, to Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 4,967 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 29m
- Door to door
- 13h 14m
What LGW to LOS looks like
The LGW to LOS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LGW to Lagos LOS is a long haul sector of 4,967 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,967 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 29m.
London LGW is a major hub in the network held here, 203 scheduled destinations and 510.1 departures a day. Lagos LOS has 40 destinations and 104.5 departures a day.
London carries about 4.9 times the departures of Lagos, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Lagos runs one hour ahead of London in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on LGW to LOS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGW to LOS | 1.14 | 8 | Air Peace |
| LOS to LGW | 1.14 | 8 | Air Peace |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Peace, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on LGW to LOS, 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 6h 29m block time on LGW to LOS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LGW | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LGW before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LGW to LOS in the air, estimated | 389 min | 10h 59m |
| Formalities at LOS | 90 min | 12h 29m |
| Delivery run in Lagos | 45 min | 13h 14m |
| Door to door | 794 min | 13h 14m |
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 LGW to LOS is 13h 14m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lagos at about 16:29 local and at the door by 18:44 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lagos, the last useful departure from London is around 08:16 local.
At 13h 14m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 13 of them join LGW to LOS.
| Connecting at | LGW to hub, flights a day | Hub to LOS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris CDG | 5.86 | 1.14 | 5,027 | 8h 38m |
| Accra ACC | 0.57 | 7.43 | 5,465 | 8h 41m |
| Casablanca CMN | 1.14 | 2.14 | 5,250 | 8h 43m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 4.14 | 1.14 | 5,452 | 9h 10m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 3.43 | 0.86 | 5,485 | 9h 17m |
| Istanbul IST | 5.15 | 1 | 7,067 | 11h 12m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LGW in the afternoon actually flies on.
13 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Paris CDG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CDG the routing covers 5,027 km against the 4,967 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 38m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 09m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Accra ACC at 8h 41m and Casablanca CMN at 8h 43m 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 41 km away by great circle and carries 212 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.
London LGW is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, so a collection in London that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Lagos.
London LGW, night restrictions: Night movements are capped between 23:30 and 06:00 local under a seasonal quota.
Plan London to Lagos 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 LGW to LOS 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 LGW airport entry
- The LOS airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Nigeria
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Lagos
- The written lane, Dubai to Lagos
- The written lane, Lagos to Houston
- The route calculator
More pairs through LGW and LOS: London to Dubai, London to Singapore, London to Sharjah, Geneva to London, Oslo to London, Aberdeen to London, Stockholm to London, Hamburg to London.