The sector is held by Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to ORY Paris
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Orly Airport, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 392 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 05m
- Door to door
- 7h 50m
What LYS to ORY looks like
The LYS to ORY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Paris ORY is a short sector of 392 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 392 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 05m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Paris ORY has 157 destinations and 361.7 departures a day.
Lyon and Paris 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 ORY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to ORY | 0.14 | 1 | Transavia France |
| ORY to LYS | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Transavia France, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg ORY to LYS carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on LYS to ORY, 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 05m block time on LYS to ORY. 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 ORY in the air, estimated | 65 min | 5h 35m |
| Formalities at ORY | 90 min | 7h 05m |
| Delivery run in Paris | 45 min | 7h 50m |
| Door to door | 470 min | 7h 50m |
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 ORY is 7h 50m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Paris at about 10:05 local and at the door by 12:20 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Paris, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:40 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. 62 of them join LYS to ORY.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to ORY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 0.86 | 492 | 2h 59m |
| Toulouse TLS | 5.29 | 9.29 | 948 | 3h 24m |
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 13.14 | 961 | 3h 40m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 1.71 | 874 | 3h 47m |
| London LHR | 2.29 | 1.14 | 1,124 | 4h 09m |
| Venice VCE | 1.14 | 4 | 1,401 | 4h 09m |
62 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Geneva GVA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through GVA the routing covers 492 km against the 392 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 59m 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 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 3h 24m and Nice NCE at 3h 40m 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 392 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 6h 08m, 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, 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 Paris, Paris CDG is 35 km away by great circle and carries 277 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.
Paris ORY is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Lyon late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Paris ORY, night restrictions: Closed to scheduled traffic between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Lyon later than about 22:25 local arrives at ORY after it has closed for the night, on the 1h 05m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through LYS or ORY. 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.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris ORY.
Plan Lyon to Paris 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 ORY 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 ORY: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.