The sector is held by easyJet, Sky Express, Transavia France and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to HER Heraklion
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,044 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 07m
- Door to door
- 9h 52m
What LYS to HER looks like
The LYS to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,044 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,044 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 07m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion is one hour ahead of Lyon 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 LYS to HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to HER | 1.86 | 13 | easyJet, Sky Express, Transavia France, Volotea |
| HER to LYS | 1.86 | 13 | easyJet, Sky Express, Transavia France, Volotea |
4 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 26 departures a week on LYS to HER, 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 3h 07m block time on LYS to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 187 min | 7h 37m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 9h 07m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 9h 52m |
| Door to door | 592 min | 9h 52m |
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 HER is 9h 52m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 13:07 local and at the door by 15:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 11:38 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. 46 of them join LYS to HER.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naples NAP | 0.71 | 1 | 2,051 | 4h 52m |
| Bari BRI | 1 | 0.57 | 2,047 | 4h 52m |
| Tirana TIA | 1 | 0.71 | 2,096 | 4h 55m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 1.14 | 2,100 | 4h 57m |
| Athens ATH | 2.29 | 14.57 | 2,089 | 4h 58m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 2.43 | 2,078 | 5h 13m |
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.
46 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Naples NAP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through NAP the routing covers 2,051 km against the 2,044 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 52m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bari BRI at 4h 52m and Tirana TIA at 4h 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 HER. 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 Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
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