The sector is held by ASL Airlines Belgium, Ethiopian Airlines and National Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to GVA Geneva
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Geneva Airport, Switzerland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 97 km
- Block, estimated
- 39 min
- Door to door
- 7h 24m
What LYS to GVA looks like
The LYS to GVA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Geneva GVA is a short sector of 97 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 97 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 39 min.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Geneva GVA has 159 destinations and 227.4 departures a day.
Lyon and Geneva 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 GVA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to GVA | 1 | 7 | ASL Airlines Belgium, Ethiopian Airlines |
| GVA to LYS | 1.14 | 8 | ASL Airlines Belgium, Ethiopian Airlines, National Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 15 departures a week on LYS to GVA, 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 39 min block time on LYS to GVA. 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 GVA in the air, estimated | 39 min | 5h 09m |
| Formalities at GVA | 90 min | 6h 39m |
| Delivery run in Geneva | 45 min | 7h 24m |
| Door to door | 444 min | 7h 24m |
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 GVA is 7h 24m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Geneva at about 09:39 local and at the door by 11:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Geneva, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 15:06 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. 74 of them join LYS to GVA.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to GVA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 6 | 585 | 3h 07m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 0.71 | 496 | 3h 14m |
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 1 | 849 | 3h 15m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 5.29 | 2.86 | 1,019 | 3h 30m |
| Nantes NTE | 4 | 2 | 1,134 | 3h 40m |
| Paris CDG | 6.71 | 8.57 | 821 | 3h 42m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LYS in the afternoon actually flies on.
74 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nice NCE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NCE the routing covers 585 km against the 97 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 07m 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 28m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Milan MXP at 3h 14m and Toulouse TLS at 3h 15m 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 97 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 1h 31m, 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 Lyon, Turin TRN is 208 km away by great circle and carries 62 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Geneva, Basel BSL is 185 km away by great circle and carries 122 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.
Geneva GVA is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Lyon late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Geneva GVA, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Lyon later than about 23:21 local arrives at GVA after it has closed for the night, on the 39 min block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LYS or GVA. 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 Geneva 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 GVA 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 GVA airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Switzerland
- The written lane, Dubai to Geneva
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS and GVA: Geneva to London, Geneva to Madrid, Paris to Geneva, Amsterdam to Geneva, Zurich to Geneva, Barcelona to Geneva, Geneva to Frankfurt, Brussels to Geneva.