The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LGW London to NTE Nantes
Gatwick Airport, the United Kingdom, to Nantes Atlantique, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 456 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 10m
- Door to door
- 7h 55m
What LGW to NTE looks like
The LGW to NTE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LGW to Nantes NTE is a short sector of 456 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 456 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 10m.
London LGW is a major hub in the network held here, 203 scheduled destinations and 510.1 departures a day. Nantes NTE has 89 destinations and 98 departures a day.
London carries about 5.2 times the departures of Nantes, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Nantes 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 LGW to NTE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LGW to NTE | 2 | 14 | easyJet |
| NTE to LGW | 1.43 | 10 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: LGW to NTE runs about twice a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 24 departures a week on LGW to NTE, 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 1h 10m block time on LGW to NTE. 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 NTE in the air, estimated | 70 min | 5h 40m |
| Formalities at NTE | 90 min | 7h 10m |
| Delivery run in Nantes | 45 min | 7h 55m |
| Door to door | 475 min | 7h 55m |
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 NTE is 7h 55m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nantes at about 11:10 local and at the door by 13:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nantes, the last useful departure from London is around 13:35 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. 60 of them join LGW to NTE.
| Connecting at | LGW to hub, flights a day | Hub to NTE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris CDG | 5.86 | 5.43 | 680 | 3h 30m |
| Toulouse TLS | 0.57 | 3.14 | 1,299 | 3h 45m |
| Lyon LYS | 1.71 | 4 | 1,254 | 4h 05m |
| Dublin DUB | 9.71 | 1.86 | 1,255 | 4h 06m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 4.14 | 4.43 | 1,098 | 4h 07m |
| Geneva GVA | 5 | 2 | 1,312 | 4h 11m |
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.
60 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 5.4 times a day.
Through CDG the routing covers 680 km against the 456 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 30m 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 20m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 3h 45m and Lyon LYS at 4h 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 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 Nantes.
London LGW, night restrictions: Night movements are capped between 23:30 and 06:00 local under a seasonal quota.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LGW or NTE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-NazaireCentre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. Logistics through Nantes NTE.
Plan London to Nantes 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 NTE 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 NTE airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
More pairs through LGW and NTE: London to Dubai, London to Singapore, London to Sharjah, Geneva to London, Oslo to London, Aberdeen to London, Stockholm to London, Hamburg to London.