The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NCE Nice to BRS Bristol
Nice Cote d'Azur, France, to Bristol Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,136 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 57m
- Door to door
- 8h 42m
What NCE to BRS looks like
The NCE to BRS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nice NCE to Bristol BRS is a short sector of 1,136 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,136 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 57m.
Nice NCE is a large airport in the network held here, 116 scheduled destinations and 207 departures a day. Bristol BRS has 116 destinations and 130.9 departures a day.
Bristol is one hour behind of Nice 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 NCE to BRS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCE to BRS | 1.14 | 8 | easyJet |
| BRS to NCE | 0.71 | 5 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: NCE to BRS runs about once a day, the return runs 5 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 12.9 departures a week on NCE to BRS, 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 57m block time on NCE to BRS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to NCE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NCE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NCE to BRS in the air, estimated | 117 min | 6h 27m |
| Formalities at BRS | 90 min | 7h 57m |
| Delivery run in Bristol | 45 min | 8h 42m |
| Door to door | 522 min | 8h 42m |
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 NCE to BRS is 8h 42m.
A courier who leaves Nice at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bristol at about 09:57 local and at the door by 12:12 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bristol, the last useful departure from Nice is around 14:48 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. 43 of them join NCE to BRS.
| Connecting at | NCE to hub, flights a day | Hub to BRS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 6 | 1.14 | 1,162 | 3h 48m |
| Toulouse TLS | 0.86 | 0.71 | 1,386 | 3h 52m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 2.57 | 0.86 | 1,389 | 4h 03m |
| Paris CDG | 13.43 | 2.43 | 1,153 | 4h 11m |
| Zurich ZRH | 4.57 | 0.57 | 1,359 | 4h 20m |
| Newcastle NCL | 0.57 | 2.29 | 1,830 | 4h 25m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at NCE in the afternoon actually flies on.
43 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 1,162 km against the 1,136 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 48m 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 3h 52m and Bordeaux BOD at 4h 03m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Bristol, Birmingham BHX is 136 km away by great circle and carries 139 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 NCE or BRS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Filton, BristolWing design, fuel systems and landing gear engineering. Engineering hardware and test articles moving to and from the assembly lines. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
- Leonardo, YeovilHelicopter assembly and support. Support contracts with fixed response times. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
Plan Nice to Bristol 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 NCE to BRS 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 NCE airport entry
- The BRS airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The route calculator
More pairs through NCE and BRS: Dublin to Bristol, Bristol to Prague, Berlin to Bristol, Bristol to Lisbon, Bristol to Toulouse, Aberdeen to Bristol, Geneva to Bristol, Budapest to Bristol.