The sector is held by Air France, British Airways, EAT Leipzig and Korean Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LHR London to CDG Paris
Heathrow Airport, the United Kingdom, to Charles de Gaulle Airport, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 347 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 01m
- Door to door
- 7h 46m
What LHR to CDG looks like
The LHR to CDG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LHR to Paris CDG is a short sector of 347 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 347 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 01m.
London LHR is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 758.3 departures a day. Paris CDG has 277 destinations and 771.4 departures a day.
Paris 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 LHR to CDG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LHR to CDG | 13.86 | 97 | Air France, British Airways, EAT Leipzig, Korean Air |
| CDG to LHR | 13.43 | 94 | Air France, British Airways |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 13.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 191 departures a week on LHR to CDG, 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 01m block time on LHR to CDG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LHR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LHR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LHR to CDG in the air, estimated | 61 min | 5h 31m |
| Formalities at CDG | 90 min | 7h 01m |
| Delivery run in Paris | 45 min | 7h 46m |
| Door to door | 466 min | 7h 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 LHR to CDG is 7h 46m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Paris at about 11:01 local and at the door by 13:16 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Paris, the last useful departure from London is around 13:44 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. 149 of them join LHR to CDG.
| Connecting at | LHR to hub, flights a day | Hub to CDG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels BRU | 7 | 4.29 | 601 | 3h 08m |
| Luxembourg City LUX | 1.57 | 3 | 788 | 3h 24m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 8.57 | 5.43 | 895 | 3h 34m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 16.14 | 12.29 | 768 | 3h 38m |
| Newcastle NCL | 5 | 3.57 | 1,135 | 3h 40m |
| Manchester MAN | 6.86 | 9 | 831 | 3h 43m |
With 13.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
149 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brussels BRU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.3 times a day.
Through BRU the routing covers 601 km against the 347 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 08m 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 07m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Luxembourg City LUX at 3h 24m and Dusseldorf DUS at 3h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 347 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 5h 25m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London LCY is 36 km away by great circle and carries 38 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris ORY is 35 km away by great circle and carries 157 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 LHR 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 Paris.
London LHR, night restrictions: A night quota system limits movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local. Very few scheduled departures in that window.
Paris CDG is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 05:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving London late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Read back down the sector, a departure from London later than about 21:59 local arrives at CDG after it has closed for the night, on the 1h 01m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LHR or CDG. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Leonardo, YeovilHelicopter assembly and support. Support contracts with fixed response times. Logistics through London LHR.
- AstraZeneca, Cambridge and MacclesfieldResearch head office and manufacturing. British research, global trial sites. Logistics through London LHR.
- GSK, Stevenage and WareResearch and inhaled medicine manufacturing. Heathrow is the gate for the whole cluster. Logistics through London LHR.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Renault, Flins and DouaiAssembly and electric vehicle production. Paris is both the plant region and the intercontinental gate. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and ParisInsulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. Logistics through Paris CDG.
Plan London to Paris 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 LHR to CDG 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.
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