The sector is held by Transavia France and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to PMO Palermo
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Palermo Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,558 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 29m
- Door to door
- 9h 14m
What NTE to PMO looks like
The NTE to PMO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Palermo PMO is a medium haul sector of 1,558 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,558 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 29m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Palermo PMO has 102 destinations and 137.8 departures a day.
Nantes and Palermo 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 PMO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to PMO | 0.57 | 4 | Transavia France, Volotea |
| PMO to NTE | 0.57 | 4 | Transavia France, Volotea |
Two carriers hold the sector, Transavia France and Volotea, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on NTE to PMO, 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 2h 29m block time on NTE to PMO. 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 PMO in the air, estimated | 149 min | 6h 59m |
| Formalities at PMO | 90 min | 8h 29m |
| Delivery run in Palermo | 45 min | 9h 14m |
| Door to door | 554 min | 9h 14m |
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 PMO is 9h 14m.
A courier who leaves Nantes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Palermo at about 11:29 local and at the door by 13:44 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Palermo, the last useful departure from Nantes is around 13:16 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 NTE to PMO.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to PMO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marseille MRS | 3.71 | 0.71 | 1,558 | 4h 23m |
| Lyon LYS | 4.14 | 1 | 1,605 | 4h 24m |
| Geneva GVA | 2 | 0.86 | 1,661 | 4h 30m |
| Naples NAP | 0.57 | 4.57 | 1,764 | 4h 34m |
| Milan MXP | 0.86 | 11.14 | 1,714 | 4h 41m |
| Venice VCE | 0.71 | 5 | 1,903 | 4h 41m |
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Marseille MRS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through MRS the routing covers 1,558 km against the 1,558 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 23m 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 54m 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 4h 24m and Geneva GVA at 4h 30m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Palermo, Catania CTA is 191 km away by great circle and carries 96 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 PMO. 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 Palermo 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 PMO 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 PMO airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Italy
- The route calculator
More pairs through NTE and PMO: Toulouse to Nantes, Montreal to Nantes, Nantes to Lisbon, Nantes to Geneva, Lyon to Nantes, Marseille to Nantes, Nantes to Casablanca, Nantes to Palma.