The sector is held by Loganair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MAN Manchester to ABZ Aberdeen
Manchester Airport, the United Kingdom, to Aberdeen Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 428 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 08m
- Door to door
- 7h 53m
What MAN to ABZ looks like
The MAN to ABZ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manchester MAN to Aberdeen ABZ is a short sector of 428 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 428 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 08m.
Manchester MAN is a major hub in the network held here, 203 scheduled destinations and 374.8 departures a day. Aberdeen ABZ has 38 destinations and 45.7 departures a day.
Manchester carries about 8.2 times the departures of Aberdeen, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Manchester and Aberdeen 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 MAN to ABZ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAN to ABZ | 3.29 | 23 | Loganair |
| ABZ to MAN | 3 | 21 | Loganair |
One carrier holds the sector, Loganair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.3 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 44 departures a week on MAN to ABZ, 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 08m block time on MAN to ABZ. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MAN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MAN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MAN to ABZ in the air, estimated | 68 min | 5h 38m |
| Formalities at ABZ | 90 min | 7h 08m |
| Delivery run in Aberdeen | 45 min | 7h 53m |
| Door to door | 473 min | 7h 53m |
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 MAN to ABZ is 7h 53m.
A courier who leaves Manchester at 09:00 local is on the ground in Aberdeen at about 10:08 local and at the door by 12:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Aberdeen, the last useful departure from Manchester is around 14:37 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. 19 of them join MAN to ABZ.
| Connecting at | MAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to ABZ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin DUB | 22.43 | 3.43 | 758 | 3h 22m |
| London LHR | 6.86 | 5.86 | 890 | 3h 48m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 11.29 | 5.29 | 1,190 | 4h 15m |
| Krakow KRK | 2.14 | 0.57 | 3,197 | 6h 20m |
| Alicante ALC | 10.14 | 0.71 | 3,788 | 7h 05m |
With 3.3 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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dublin DUB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through DUB the routing covers 758 km against the 428 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 22m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 14m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, London LHR at 3h 48m and Amsterdam AMS at 4h 15m 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 428 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 41m, 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 Manchester, Liverpool LPL is 38 km away by great circle and carries 88 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Aberdeen, Edinburgh EDI is 156 km away by great circle and carries 163 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 MAN or ABZ. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Broughton, FlintshireWing manufacture for the entire commercial range. Wing components are large, scheduled and unforgiving, and the small parts that hold them up move by hand. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
- Nissan, SunderlandThe largest car plant in the United Kingdom. An island line supplied from the continent and from Japan. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
- AstraZeneca, Cambridge and MacclesfieldResearch head office and manufacturing. British research, global trial sites. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
- Baker Hughes, Aberdeen and FlorenceOilfield equipment and turbomachinery. The North Sea runs on parts that arrive the same day. Logistics through Aberdeen ABZ.
- SLB, Aberdeen and StavangerOilfield services and downhole equipment. A rig that stops costs more per hour than most factories. Logistics through Aberdeen ABZ.
Plan Manchester to Aberdeen 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 MAN to ABZ 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 MAN airport entry
- The ABZ airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Manchester
- The written lane, Dubai to Manchester
- The written lane, Aberdeen to Stavanger
- The route calculator
More pairs through MAN and ABZ: London to Aberdeen, Amsterdam to Aberdeen, Dublin to Aberdeen, Aberdeen to Copenhagen, Aberdeen to Birmingham, Aberdeen to Oslo, Aberdeen to Bristol, Aberdeen to Glasgow.