The sector is held by easyJet and Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to LIS Lisbon
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Lisbon Humberto Delgado, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,113 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 55m
- Door to door
- 8h 40m
What NTE to LIS looks like
The NTE to LIS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Lisbon LIS is a short sector of 1,113 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,113 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 55m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Lisbon LIS has 154 destinations and 367.9 departures a day.
Lisbon carries about 3.8 times the departures of Nantes, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Lisbon is one hour behind of Nantes 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 NTE to LIS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to LIS | 2.29 | 16 | easyJet, Transavia France |
| LIS to NTE | 2.29 | 16 | easyJet, Transavia France |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Transavia France, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on NTE 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 55m block time on NTE 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 NTE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NTE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NTE to LIS in the air, estimated | 115 min | 6h 25m |
| Formalities at LIS | 90 min | 7h 55m |
| Delivery run in Lisbon | 45 min | 8h 40m |
| Door to door | 520 min | 8h 40m |
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 NTE to LIS is 8h 40m.
A courier who leaves Nantes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lisbon at about 09:55 local and at the door by 12:10 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lisbon, the last useful departure from Nantes is around 14:50 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. 50 of them join NTE to LIS.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to LIS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porto OPO | 2.57 | 11.43 | 1,142 | 3h 45m |
| Faro FAO | 1.43 | 2.86 | 1,464 | 3h 55m |
| Toulouse TLS | 2 | 2.86 | 1,484 | 3h 59m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.43 | 21.86 | 1,270 | 4h 22m |
| Valencia VLC | 0.57 | 4 | 1,607 | 4h 27m |
| Malaga AGP | 1.29 | 3.43 | 1,659 | 4h 28m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at NTE in the afternoon actually flies on.
50 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Porto OPO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through OPO the routing covers 1,142 km against the 1,113 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 45m 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 50m 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 55m and Toulouse TLS at 3h 59m 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through NTE or LIS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Nantes and Saint-NazaireCentre fuselage sections and the nose section. Structural sections feed the Toulouse and Hamburg lines directly. Logistics through Nantes NTE.
Plan Nantes 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 NTE 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 NTE airport entry
- The LIS airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Dubai to Lisbon
- The written lane, Lisbon to Sao Paulo
- The route calculator
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