The sector is held by Iberia and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
OSL Oslo to MAD Madrid
Oslo Gardermoen, Norway, to Adolfo Suarez Barajas, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,413 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 35m
- Door to door
- 10h 20m
What OSL to MAD looks like
The OSL to MAD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Oslo OSL to Madrid MAD is a medium haul sector of 2,413 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,413 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 35m.
Oslo OSL is a large airport in the network held here, 146 scheduled destinations and 378.2 departures a day. Madrid MAD has 252 destinations and 720.9 departures a day.
Oslo and Madrid 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 OSL to MAD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSL to MAD | 1.86 | 13 | Iberia, Norwegian Air Shuttle |
| MAD to OSL | 1.71 | 12 | Iberia, Norwegian Air Shuttle |
Two carriers hold the sector, Iberia and Norwegian Air Shuttle, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on OSL to MAD, 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 3h 35m block time on OSL to MAD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to OSL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At OSL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| OSL to MAD in the air, estimated | 215 min | 8h 05m |
| Formalities at MAD | 90 min | 9h 35m |
| Delivery run in Madrid | 45 min | 10h 20m |
| Door to door | 620 min | 10h 20m |
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 OSL to MAD is 10h 20m.
A courier who leaves Oslo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Madrid at about 12:35 local and at the door by 14:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Madrid, the last useful departure from Oslo is around 12:10 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. 77 of them join OSL to MAD.
| Connecting at | OSL to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels BRU | 3.29 | 11.29 | 2,427 | 5h 21m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 1.29 | 3.86 | 2,465 | 5h 24m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.86 | 0.86 | 2,694 | 5h 27m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 8.71 | 12.14 | 2,418 | 5h 35m |
| Paris CDG | 7.57 | 13.86 | 2,419 | 5h 35m |
| Hamburg HAM | 1.57 | 3.29 | 2,512 | 5h 36m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at OSL in the afternoon actually flies on.
77 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brussels BRU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.3 times a day.
Through BRU the routing covers 2,427 km against the 2,413 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 21m 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 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Dusseldorf DUS at 5h 24m and Leipzig LEJ at 5h 27m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Madrid MAD, night operations: Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through OSL or MAD. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Getafe and IllescasRear fuselage, tail sections and composite structures. The Spanish sites sit on the same takt as the French and German ones. Logistics through Madrid MAD.
Plan Oslo to Madrid 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 OSL to MAD 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 OSL airport entry
- The MAD airport entry
- Hand carry into Norway
- Hand carry into Spain
- The written lane, Dubai to Oslo
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Madrid
- The written lane, Doha to Madrid
- The route calculator
More pairs through OSL and MAD: Barcelona to Madrid, Madrid to London, Paris to Madrid, Madrid to Amsterdam, Munich to Madrid, Madrid to Milan, Brussels to Madrid, Boston to Madrid.