The sector is held by Air France and easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to NTE Nantes
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Nantes Atlantique, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a day
- Great circle
- 537 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 17m
- Door to door
- 8h 02m
What LYS to NTE looks like
The LYS to NTE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Nantes NTE is a short sector of 537 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 537 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 17m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Nantes NTE has 89 destinations and 98 departures a day.
Lyon and Nantes 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 NTE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to NTE | 4 | 28 | Air France, easyJet |
| NTE to LYS | 4.14 | 29 | Air France, easyJet |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air France and easyJet, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 57 departures a week on LYS to NTE, 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 17m block time on LYS to NTE. 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 NTE in the air, estimated | 77 min | 5h 47m |
| Formalities at NTE | 90 min | 7h 17m |
| Delivery run in Nantes | 45 min | 8h 02m |
| Door to door | 482 min | 8h 02m |
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 NTE is 8h 02m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nantes at about 10:17 local and at the door by 12:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nantes, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:28 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. 59 of them join LYS to NTE.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to NTE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 3.14 | 831 | 3h 13m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 2 | 694 | 3h 17m |
| Paris CDG | 6.71 | 5.43 | 785 | 3h 39m |
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 2.71 | 1,075 | 3h 50m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 0.86 | 1,093 | 3h 57m |
| London LGW | 1.86 | 2 | 1,173 | 4h 13m |
With 4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
59 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Toulouse TLS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.1 times a day.
Through TLS the routing covers 831 km against the 537 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 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 56m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Geneva GVA at 3h 17m and Paris CDG at 3h 39m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LYS or NTE. 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.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-NazaireCentre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. Logistics through Nantes NTE.
Plan Lyon to Nantes 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 NTE 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.
More pairs through LYS and NTE: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.