The sector is held by Air France, ASL Airlines France and easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to BUD Budapest
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,247 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 06m
- Door to door
- 8h 51m
What CDG to BUD looks like
The CDG to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Budapest BUD is a medium haul sector of 1,247 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,247 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 06m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
Paris carries about 3.5 times the departures of Budapest, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Paris and Budapest 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 CDG to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to BUD | 4.71 | 33 | Air France, ASL Airlines France, easyJet |
| BUD to CDG | 4.14 | 29 | Air France, ASL Airlines France, easyJet |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 61.9 departures a week on CDG to BUD, 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 06m block time on CDG to BUD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CDG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CDG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CDG to BUD in the air, estimated | 126 min | 6h 36m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 8h 06m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 8h 51m |
| Door to door | 531 min | 8h 51m |
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 CDG to BUD is 8h 51m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 11:06 local and at the door by 13:21 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Paris is around 13:39 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. 108 of them join CDG to BUD.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna VIE | 10 | 3.57 | 1,249 | 3h 53m |
| Luxembourg City LUX | 3 | 0.71 | 1,263 | 3h 55m |
| Basel BSL | 3 | 2.86 | 1,281 | 3h 57m |
| Cologne CGN | 1.43 | 1 | 1,346 | 4h 02m |
| Prague PRG | 5.86 | 0.86 | 1,323 | 4h 02m |
| Brussels BRU | 3.86 | 2.14 | 1,390 | 4h 04m |
With 4.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
108 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Vienna VIE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.6 times a day.
Through VIE the routing covers 1,249 km against the 1,247 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 53m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Luxembourg City LUX at 3h 55m and Basel BSL at 3h 57m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris ORY is 35 km away by great circle and carries 157 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Budapest, Bratislava BTS is 173 km away by great circle and carries 88 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Paris CDG is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 05:00 local, so a collection in Paris that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Budapest.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or BUD. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Renault, Flins and DouaiAssembly and electric vehicle production. Paris is both the plant region and the intercontinental gate. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and ParisInsulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. Logistics through Paris CDG.
Plan Paris to Budapest 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 CDG to BUD 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 CDG airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Hungary
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- The written lane, Doha to Paris
- The written lane, Dubai to Paris
- The route calculator
More pairs through CDG and BUD: Frankfurt to Budapest, Amsterdam to Budapest, London to Budapest, Copenhagen to Budapest, Barcelona to Budapest, Budapest to Tel Aviv, Munich to Budapest, Madrid to Budapest.