The sector is held by easyJet, Transavia France and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to OPO Porto
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Francisco Sa Carneiro, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 865 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 36m
- Door to door
- 8h 21m
What NTE to OPO looks like
The NTE to OPO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Porto OPO is a short sector of 865 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 865 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 36m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Porto OPO has 138 destinations and 208.4 departures a day.
Porto 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 OPO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to OPO | 2.57 | 18 | easyJet, Transavia France, Volotea |
| OPO to NTE | 2.57 | 18 | easyJet, Transavia France, Volotea |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 36 departures a week on NTE to OPO, 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 36m block time on NTE to OPO. 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 OPO in the air, estimated | 96 min | 6h 06m |
| Formalities at OPO | 90 min | 7h 36m |
| Delivery run in Porto | 45 min | 8h 21m |
| Door to door | 501 min | 8h 21m |
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 OPO is 8h 21m.
A courier who leaves Nantes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Porto at about 09:36 local and at the door by 11:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Porto, the last useful departure from Nantes is around 15:09 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. 49 of them join NTE to OPO.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to OPO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toulouse TLS | 2 | 1 | 1,320 | 3h 46m |
| Lisbon LIS | 2.29 | 11.43 | 1,390 | 4h 04m |
| Madrid MAD | 1.43 | 13 | 1,195 | 4h 16m |
| Faro FAO | 1.43 | 3.57 | 1,717 | 4h 17m |
| Valencia VLC | 0.57 | 1.71 | 1,578 | 4h 25m |
| Lyon LYS | 4.14 | 2.57 | 1,752 | 4h 35m |
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.
49 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 about once a day.
Through TLS the routing covers 1,320 km against the 865 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 46m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 10m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Lisbon LIS at 4h 04m and Madrid MAD at 4h 16m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through NTE or OPO. 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 Porto 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 OPO 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 OPO airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The route calculator
More pairs through NTE and OPO: Toulouse to Nantes, Montreal to Nantes, Nantes to Lisbon, Nantes to Geneva, Lyon to Nantes, Marseille to Nantes, Nantes to Casablanca, Nantes to Palma.