The sector is held by easyJet and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to PRG Prague
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Vaclav Havel Airport, Czechia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 838 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 34m
- Door to door
- 8h 19m
What LYS to PRG looks like
The LYS to PRG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Prague PRG is a short sector of 838 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 838 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 34m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Prague PRG has 191 destinations and 251.7 departures a day.
Lyon and Prague 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 PRG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to PRG | 0.43 | 3 | easyJet, Volotea |
| PRG to LYS | 0.43 | 3 | easyJet, Volotea |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Volotea, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on LYS to PRG, 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 34m block time on LYS to PRG. 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 PRG in the air, estimated | 94 min | 6h 04m |
| Formalities at PRG | 90 min | 7h 34m |
| Delivery run in Prague | 45 min | 8h 19m |
| Door to door | 499 min | 8h 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 PRG is 8h 19m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Prague 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 Prague, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:11 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. 69 of them join LYS to PRG.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to PRG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 1.14 | 838 | 3h 29m |
| Munich MUC | 3.71 | 4.86 | 850 | 3h 45m |
| Nice NCE | 1.43 | 1.57 | 1,179 | 3h 49m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.29 | 3.57 | 1,188 | 3h 50m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 1.71 | 929 | 3h 52m |
| Cologne CGN | 0.71 | 0.71 | 1,101 | 3h 52m |
69 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 about once a day.
Through GVA the routing covers 838 km against the 838 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 29m 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 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Munich MUC at 3h 45m and Nice NCE at 3h 49m 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 Prague, Leipzig LEJ is 205 km away by great circle and carries 85 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 PRG. 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.
- Skoda, Mlada BoleslavAssembly and component production. An hour from Prague, and Prague is the gate. Logistics through Prague PRG.
Plan Lyon to Prague 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 PRG 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 PRG airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Czechia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Prague
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS and PRG: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Jeddah to Lyon.