The sector is held by Air Canada and Air Transat.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to YUL Montreal
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Montreal Trudeau, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 5,866 km
- Block, estimated
- 7h 34m
- Door to door
- 14h 19m
What LYS to YUL looks like
The LYS to YUL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Montreal YUL is a long haul sector of 5,866 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 5,866 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 7h 34m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Montreal YUL has 157 destinations and 317.8 departures a day.
Montreal is 6 hours behind of Lyon all year.
The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 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 YUL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to YUL | 1.57 | 11 | Air Canada, Air Transat |
| YUL to LYS | 1.43 | 10 | Air Canada, Air Transat |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Canada and Air Transat, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 21 departures a week on LYS to YUL, 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 7h 34m block time on LYS to YUL. 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 YUL in the air, estimated | 454 min | 12h 04m |
| Formalities at YUL | 90 min | 13h 34m |
| Delivery run in Montreal | 45 min | 14h 19m |
| Door to door | 859 min | 14h 19m |
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 YUL is 14h 19m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Montreal at about 10:34 local and at the door by 12:49 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Montreal, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:11 local.
At 14h 19m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 43 of them join LYS to YUL.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to YUL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nantes NTE | 4 | 1.14 | 5,875 | 9h 13m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 5.29 | 0.86 | 5,983 | 9h 20m |
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 1.14 | 6,104 | 9h 27m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 1.14 | 6,002 | 9h 31m |
| Dublin DUB | 1.86 | 0.57 | 5,952 | 9h 31m |
| Paris CDG | 6.71 | 8 | 5,936 | 9h 45m |
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.
43 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nantes NTE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NTE the routing covers 5,875 km against the 5,866 km nonstop track and takes about 9h 13m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bordeaux BOD at 9h 20m and Toulouse TLS at 9h 27m 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 Montreal, Ottawa YOW is 151 km away by great circle and carries 45 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 YUL. 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 Montreal 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 YUL 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 YUL airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Canada
- The written lane, Dubai to Montreal
- The route calculator
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