The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to WAW Warsaw
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,358 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 14m
- Door to door
- 8h 59m
What LYS to WAW looks like
The LYS to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Warsaw WAW is a medium haul sector of 1,358 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,358 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 14m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Lyon and Warsaw 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 WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to WAW | 1 | 7 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to LYS | 1 | 7 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 14 departures a week on LYS to WAW, 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 14m block time on LYS to WAW. 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 WAW in the air, estimated | 134 min | 6h 44m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 8h 14m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 8h 59m |
| Door to door | 539 min | 8h 59m |
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 WAW is 8h 59m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 11:14 local and at the door by 13:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 13:31 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 WAW.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.71 | 0.71 | 1,428 | 3h 56m |
| Geneva GVA | 1 | 2.29 | 1,358 | 4h 01m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.29 | 7.57 | 1,459 | 4h 13m |
| Venice VCE | 1.14 | 2 | 1,536 | 4h 19m |
| Milan MXP | 1 | 3.57 | 1,433 | 4h 23m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 4 | 7.71 | 1,441 | 4h 27m |
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.
59 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Leipzig LEJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through LEJ the routing covers 1,428 km against the 1,358 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 56m 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 42m 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 4h 01m and Vienna VIE at 4h 13m 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 Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 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 WAW. 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 Warsaw 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 WAW 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 WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The written lane, Warsaw to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS and WAW: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.