The sector is held by Transavia France and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to RHO Rhodes
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Rhodes Diagoras, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,178 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 17m
- Door to door
- 10h 02m
What LYS to RHO looks like
The LYS to RHO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Rhodes RHO is a medium haul sector of 2,178 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,178 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 17m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Rhodes RHO has 117 destinations and 134.1 departures a day.
Rhodes is one hour ahead of Lyon all year.
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 RHO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to RHO | 0.29 | 2 | Transavia France, Volotea |
| RHO to LYS | 0.43 | 3 | Transavia France, Volotea |
Two carriers hold the sector, Transavia France and Volotea, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: LYS to RHO runs 2 times a week, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 2 times 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 5 departures a week on LYS to RHO, 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 3h 17m block time on LYS to RHO. 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 RHO in the air, estimated | 197 min | 7h 47m |
| Formalities at RHO | 90 min | 9h 17m |
| Delivery run in Rhodes | 45 min | 10h 02m |
| Door to door | 602 min | 10h 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 RHO is 10h 02m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Rhodes at about 13:17 local and at the door by 15:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Rhodes, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 11:28 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. 39 of them join LYS to RHO.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to RHO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bari BRI | 1 | 0.71 | 2,183 | 5h 02m |
| Athens ATH | 2.29 | 8.86 | 2,185 | 5h 07m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 0.57 | 2,223 | 5h 07m |
| Heraklion HER | 1.86 | 2.57 | 2,331 | 5h 17m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 1 | 2,196 | 5h 22m |
| Rome FCO | 1.29 | 1.57 | 2,210 | 5h 28m |
39 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bari BRI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through BRI the routing covers 2,183 km against the 2,178 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 02m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Athens ATH at 5h 07m and Geneva GVA at 5h 07m 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 Rhodes, Kos KGS is 99 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 RHO. 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 Rhodes 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 RHO 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 RHO airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS and RHO: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.