The sector is held by Air France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to DUS Dusseldorf
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Dusseldorf Airport, Germany. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 393 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 05m
- Door to door
- 7h 50m
What CDG to DUS looks like
The CDG to DUS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Dusseldorf DUS is a short sector of 393 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 393 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 05m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Dusseldorf DUS has 176 destinations and 290.7 departures a day.
Paris carries about 2.7 times the departures of Dusseldorf, 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 Dusseldorf 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 DUS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to DUS | 5.43 | 38 | Air France |
| DUS to CDG | 5.43 | 38 | Air France |
One carrier holds the sector, Air France, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 5.4 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 76 departures a week on CDG to DUS, 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 05m block time on CDG to DUS. 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 DUS in the air, estimated | 65 min | 5h 35m |
| Formalities at DUS | 90 min | 7h 05m |
| Delivery run in Dusseldorf | 45 min | 7h 50m |
| Door to door | 470 min | 7h 50m |
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 DUS is 7h 50m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dusseldorf at about 10:05 local and at the door by 12:20 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dusseldorf, the last useful departure from Paris is around 14:40 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. 92 of them join CDG to DUS.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to DUS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam AMS | 12.43 | 5.57 | 576 | 3h 21m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 14.57 | 4.86 | 635 | 3h 26m |
| Geneva GVA | 8.57 | 0.71 | 972 | 3h 41m |
| London LHR | 13.43 | 8.57 | 849 | 3h 45m |
| Hamburg HAM | 6.29 | 2.14 | 1,068 | 3h 49m |
| Zurich ZRH | 8.86 | 7 | 920 | 3h 51m |
With 5.4 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.
92 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Amsterdam AMS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.6 times a day.
Through AMS the routing covers 576 km against the 393 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 21m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 16m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Frankfurt FRA at 3h 26m and Geneva GVA at 3h 41m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 393 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 6h 08m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
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 Dusseldorf, Cologne CGN is 54 km away by great circle and carries 154 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 Dusseldorf.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Dusseldorf DUS is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Paris late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Dusseldorf DUS, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Paris later than about 20:55 local arrives at DUS after it has closed for the night, on the 1h 05m block time above.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or DUS. 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.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
- Siemens Energy, Berlin and MuelheimGas turbine manufacture and service. A turbine out of service is a power station out of service. Logistics through Dusseldorf DUS.
Plan Paris to Dusseldorf 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 DUS 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 DUS airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Germany
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Paris
- The written lane, Doha to Paris
- The written lane, Dubai to Paris
- The route calculator
More pairs through CDG and DUS: Paris to Frankfurt, London to Paris, Paris to Madrid, Amsterdam to Paris, Paris to Barcelona, Paris to Atlanta, Munich to Paris, Paris to Copenhagen.