The sector is held by easyJet and Wizz Air UK.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LTN London to LYS Lyon
Luton Airport, the United Kingdom, to Lyon Saint-Exupery, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 792 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 40m
- Door to door
- 8h 25m
What LTN to LYS looks like
The LTN to LYS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LTN to Lyon LYS is a short sector of 792 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 792 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 40m.
London LTN is a major hub in the network held here, 169 scheduled destinations and 228.8 departures a day. Lyon LYS has 122 destinations and 152.8 departures a day.
Lyon 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 LTN to LYS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LTN to LYS | 1.43 | 10 | easyJet, Wizz Air UK |
| LYS to LTN | 0.43 | 3 | Wizz Air UK |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Wizz Air UK, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: LTN to LYS runs about once a day, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 13 departures a week on LTN to LYS, 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 40m block time on LTN to LYS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LTN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LTN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LTN to LYS in the air, estimated | 100 min | 6h 10m |
| Formalities at LYS | 90 min | 7h 40m |
| Delivery run in Lyon | 45 min | 8h 25m |
| Door to door | 505 min | 8h 25m |
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 LTN to LYS is 8h 25m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lyon at about 11:40 local and at the door by 13:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lyon, the last useful departure from London is around 13:05 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. 57 of them join LTN to LYS.
| Connecting at | LTN to hub, flights a day | Hub to LYS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 1.43 | 1.14 | 881 | 3h 33m |
| Paris CDG | 4.57 | 6.57 | 792 | 3h 39m |
| London LGW | 0.71 | 1.71 | 799 | 3h 40m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 2.43 | 5.29 | 1,249 | 3h 50m |
| Nice NCE | 1.57 | 1.43 | 1,359 | 4h 02m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 6.14 | 4.43 | 1,086 | 4h 06m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LTN in the afternoon actually flies on.
57 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Geneva GVA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through GVA the routing covers 881 km against the 792 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 33m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Paris CDG at 3h 39m and London LGW at 3h 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 London, London STN is 41 km away by great circle and carries 218 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 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 LTN or LYS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan London to Lyon 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 LTN to LYS 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 LTN airport entry
- The LYS airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
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