The sector is held by Air Algerie and Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to ORN Oran
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,221 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 04m
- Door to door
- 8h 49m
What LYS to ORN looks like
The LYS to ORN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Oran ORN is a medium haul sector of 1,221 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,221 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 04m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Oran ORN has 35 destinations and 35.7 departures a day.
Lyon carries about 4.3 times the departures of Oran, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Oran runs no time shift at all of Lyon in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 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 ORN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to ORN | 2.71 | 19 | Air Algerie, Transavia France |
| ORN to LYS | 2.57 | 18 | Air Algerie, Transavia France |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Algerie and Transavia France, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 37 departures a week on LYS to ORN, 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 2h 04m block time on LYS to ORN. 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 ORN in the air, estimated | 124 min | 6h 34m |
| Formalities at ORN | 90 min | 8h 04m |
| Delivery run in Oran | 45 min | 8h 49m |
| Door to door | 529 min | 8h 49m |
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 ORN is 8h 49m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Oran at about 11:04 local and at the door by 13:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Oran, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 13:41 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. 14 of them join LYS to ORN.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to ORN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 1.86 | 1,282 | 3h 42m |
| Algiers ALG | 5 | 7.57 | 1,381 | 3h 50m |
| Alicante ALC | 0.57 | 3 | 1,246 | 3h 54m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 5.29 | 0.71 | 1,488 | 3h 59m |
| Barcelona BCN | 1.57 | 0.86 | 1,222 | 4h 17m |
| Nantes NTE | 4 | 0.57 | 1,822 | 4h 25m |
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.
14 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 about once a day.
Through TLS the routing covers 1,282 km against the 1,221 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 42m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Algiers ALG at 3h 50m and Alicante ALC at 3h 54m 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 ORN. 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 Oran 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 ORN 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 ORN airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Algeria
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS and ORN: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.