The sector is held by easyJet and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to NCE Nice
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Nice Cote d'Azur, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 790 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 40m
- Door to door
- 8h 25m
What NTE to NCE looks like
The NTE to NCE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Nice NCE is a short sector of 790 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 790 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 40m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Nice NCE has 116 destinations and 207 departures a day.
Nantes and Nice 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 NTE to NCE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to NCE | 2.86 | 20 | easyJet, Volotea |
| NCE to NTE | 2.71 | 19 | easyJet, Volotea |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Volotea, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 39 departures a week on NTE to NCE, 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 40m block time on NTE to NCE. 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 NCE in the air, estimated | 100 min | 6h 10m |
| Formalities at NCE | 90 min | 7h 40m |
| Delivery run in Nice | 45 min | 8h 25m |
| Door to door | 505 min | 8h 25m |
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 NCE is 8h 25m.
A courier who leaves Nantes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nice at about 10:40 local and at the door by 12:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nice, the last useful departure from Nantes is around 14:05 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. 44 of them join NTE to NCE.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to NCE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse TLS | 2 | 0.86 | 926 | 3h 22m |
| Lyon LYS | 4.14 | 1.43 | 822 | 3h 27m |
| Geneva GVA | 2 | 6.14 | 897 | 3h 35m |
| Paris CDG | 5.71 | 16.86 | 1,067 | 4h 04m |
| Barcelona BCN | 3.14 | 3.57 | 1,210 | 4h 17m |
| Palma PMI | 4.57 | 1.14 | 1,504 | 4h 17m |
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.
44 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Toulouse TLS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a week.
Through TLS the routing covers 926 km against the 790 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 22m 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, Lyon LYS at 3h 27m and Geneva GVA at 3h 35m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Nice, Genoa GOA is 154 km away by great circle and carries 30 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 NCE. 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 Nice 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 NCE 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.
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More pairs through NTE and NCE: Dubai to Nice, Paris to Nice, Abu Dhabi to Nice, Hamburg to Nice, Stuttgart to Nice, Toulouse to Nice, Eindhoven to Nice, Beirut to Nice.