The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to BUD Budapest
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,098 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 54m
- Door to door
- 8h 39m
What LYS to BUD looks like
The LYS to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Budapest BUD is a short sector of 1,098 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,098 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 54m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Lyon and Budapest keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 LYS to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to BUD | 0.29 | 2 | easyJet |
| BUD to LYS | 0.29 | 2 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on LYS to BUD, 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 54m block time on LYS to BUD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to LYS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LYS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LYS to BUD in the air, estimated | 114 min | 6h 24m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 7h 54m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 8h 39m |
| Door to door | 519 min | 8h 39m |
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 LYS to BUD is 8h 39m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 10:54 local and at the door by 13:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 13:51 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. 69 of them join LYS to BUD.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 0.71 | 1,105 | 3h 41m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.29 | 3.57 | 1,124 | 3h 44m |
| Venice VCE | 1.14 | 0.86 | 1,135 | 3h 55m |
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 1.43 | 1,311 | 3h 59m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 3.71 | 1,112 | 3h 59m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.71 | 0.71 | 1,497 | 4h 03m |
69 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 5 times a week.
Through GVA the routing covers 1,105 km against the 1,098 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 41m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vienna VIE at 3h 44m and Venice VCE at 3h 55m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 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 LYS or BUD. 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 Lyon to Budapest 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 LYS to BUD 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 LYS airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
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