The sector is held by Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NTE Nantes to VCE Venice
Nantes Atlantique, France, to Marco Polo Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,086 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 53m
- Door to door
- 8h 38m
What NTE to VCE looks like
The NTE to VCE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nantes NTE to Venice VCE is a short sector of 1,086 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,086 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 53m.
Nantes NTE is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 98 departures a day. Venice VCE has 114 destinations and 175 departures a day.
Nantes and Venice 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 VCE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTE to VCE | 0.71 | 5 | Volotea |
| VCE to NTE | 0.71 | 5 | Volotea |
One carrier holds the sector, Volotea, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on NTE to VCE, 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 53m block time on NTE to VCE. 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 VCE in the air, estimated | 113 min | 6h 23m |
| Formalities at VCE | 90 min | 7h 53m |
| Delivery run in Venice | 45 min | 8h 38m |
| Door to door | 518 min | 8h 38m |
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 VCE is 8h 38m.
A courier who leaves Nantes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Venice at about 10:53 local and at the door by 13:08 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Venice, the last useful departure from Nantes is around 13:52 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 VCE.
| Connecting at | NTE to hub, flights a day | Hub to VCE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 2 | 1.43 | 1,087 | 3h 51m |
| Lyon LYS | 4.14 | 1.14 | 1,102 | 3h 52m |
| Nice NCE | 2.86 | 1.14 | 1,246 | 4h 05m |
| Paris CDG | 5.71 | 8.43 | 1,207 | 4h 07m |
| Munich MUC | 0.71 | 4.57 | 1,329 | 4h 15m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 1.14 | 8.86 | 1,389 | 4h 23m |
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Geneva GVA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through GVA the routing covers 1,087 km against the 1,086 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 51m 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 58m 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 52m and Nice NCE at 4h 05m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Venice, Treviso TSF is 20 km away by great circle and carries 47 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 VCE. 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 Venice 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 VCE 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 VCE airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Italy
- The route calculator
More pairs through NTE and VCE: Toulouse to Nantes, Montreal to Nantes, Nantes to Lisbon, Nantes to Geneva, Lyon to Nantes, Marseille to Nantes, Nantes to Casablanca, Nantes to Palma.