The sector is held by Air Algerie, Transavia France and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MRS Marseille to ALG Algiers
Marseille Provence, France, to Houari Boumediene, Algeria. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 769 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 38m
- Door to door
- 8h 23m
What MRS to ALG looks like
The MRS to ALG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Marseille MRS to Algiers ALG is a short sector of 769 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 769 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 38m.
Marseille MRS is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 158 departures a day. Algiers ALG has 88 destinations and 133.3 departures a day.
Algiers runs no time shift at all of Marseille in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MRS to ALG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MRS to ALG | 7.14 | 50 | Air Algerie, Transavia France, Volotea |
| ALG to MRS | 6.86 | 48 | Air Algerie, Transavia France, Volotea |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 7.1 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 98 departures a week on MRS to ALG, 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 38m block time on MRS to ALG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MRS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MRS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MRS to ALG in the air, estimated | 98 min | 6h 08m |
| Formalities at ALG | 90 min | 7h 38m |
| Delivery run in Algiers | 45 min | 8h 23m |
| Door to door | 503 min | 8h 23m |
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 MRS to ALG is 8h 23m.
A courier who leaves Marseille at 09:00 local is on the ground in Algiers at about 10:38 local and at the door by 12:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Algiers, the last useful departure from Marseille is around 14:07 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. 35 of them join MRS to ALG.
| Connecting at | MRS to hub, flights a day | Hub to ALG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palma PMI | 2.57 | 0.71 | 800 | 3h 25m |
| Toulouse TLS | 1.71 | 1.43 | 1,099 | 3h 38m |
| Barcelona BCN | 0.71 | 3.86 | 872 | 3h 47m |
| Oran ORN | 2.86 | 7 | 1,366 | 3h 49m |
| Alicante ALC | 1.57 | 3.43 | 1,128 | 3h 54m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 2 | 1.43 | 1,461 | 3h 58m |
With 7.1 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.
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Palma PMI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through PMI the routing covers 800 km against the 769 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 25m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 3h 38m and Barcelona BCN at 3h 47m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Marseille, Nice NCE is 163 km away by great circle and carries 116 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 MRS or ALG. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus Helicopters, MarignaneHelicopter final assembly and the group helicopter head office. Rotorcraft AOG, frequently for offshore and medical operators who cannot wait. Logistics through Marseille MRS.
Plan Marseille to Algiers 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 MRS to ALG 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 MRS airport entry
- The ALG airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Algeria
- The route calculator
More pairs through MRS and ALG: Jeddah to Algiers, Paris to Algiers, Toulouse to Algiers, Algiers to Amman, Lyon to Algiers, Nantes to Algiers, Seoul to Marseille, Marseille to Lisbon.