The sector is held by Aeromexico, Air Canada, Air Europa, Azul, easyJet and Iberia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MAD Madrid to LIS Lisbon
Adolfo Suarez Barajas, Spain, to Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 21.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 513 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 15m
- Door to door
- 8h 00m
What MAD to LIS looks like
The MAD to LIS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Madrid MAD to Lisbon LIS is a short sector of 513 km by great circle, flown nonstop 21.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 513 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 15m.
Madrid MAD is a major hub in the network held here, 252 scheduled destinations and 720.9 departures a day. Lisbon LIS has 154 destinations and 367.9 departures a day.
Lisbon is one hour behind of Madrid 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 MAD to LIS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAD to LIS | 21.86 | 153 | Aeromexico, Air Canada, Air Europa, Azul, easyJet, Iberia |
| LIS to MAD | 21 | 147 | Air Europa, easyJet, EuroAtlantic Airways, Iberia, Ryanair, TAP Air Portugal |
9 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 21.9 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 300 departures a week on MAD to LIS, 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 15m block time on MAD to LIS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MAD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MAD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MAD to LIS in the air, estimated | 75 min | 5h 45m |
| Formalities at LIS | 90 min | 7h 15m |
| Delivery run in Lisbon | 45 min | 8h 00m |
| Door to door | 480 min | 8h 00m |
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 MAD to LIS is 8h 00m.
A courier who leaves Madrid at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lisbon at about 09:15 local and at the door by 11:30 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lisbon, the last useful departure from Madrid is around 15:30 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. 109 of them join MAD to LIS.
| Connecting at | MAD to hub, flights a day | Hub to LIS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seville SVQ | 6.43 | 3.29 | 719 | 3h 03m |
| Faro FAO | 2.57 | 2.86 | 765 | 3h 08m |
| Porto OPO | 13 | 11.43 | 715 | 3h 18m |
| Bilbao BIO | 9.29 | 1.86 | 1,041 | 3h 32m |
| Malaga AGP | 9 | 3.43 | 902 | 3h 35m |
| Valencia VLC | 6.14 | 4 | 1,036 | 3h 46m |
With 21.9 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
109 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seville SVQ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through SVQ the routing covers 719 km against the 513 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 03m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Faro FAO at 3h 08m and Porto OPO at 3h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Lisbon, Faro FAO is 222 km away by great circle and carries 87 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.
Madrid MAD, night operations: Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through MAD or LIS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Getafe and IllescasRear fuselage, tail sections and composite structures. The Spanish sites sit on the same takt as the French and German ones. Logistics through Madrid MAD.
Plan Madrid to Lisbon 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 MAD to LIS 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 MAD airport entry
- The LIS airport entry
- Hand carry into Spain
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Madrid
- The written lane, Doha to Madrid
- The written lane, Dubai to Madrid
- The route calculator
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