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CDG Paris to SEA Seattle

Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Seattle Tacoma International, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.

Nonstop: About twice a day
Great circle: 8,049 km
Block, estimated: 10h 12m
Door to door: 16h 57m

What CDG to SEA looks like

The CDG to SEA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.

Paris CDG to Seattle SEA is an ultra long sector of 8,049 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.

The sector is held by Air France and Delta Air Lines.

At the cruise speed this site models for 8,049 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 10h 12m.

Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Seattle SEA has 145 destinations and 717.9 departures a day.

Seattle is 9 hours behind of Paris all year.

The pair sits between the Americas and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 36 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 SEA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.

Direction	Flights a day	Flights a week	Operated by
CDG to SEA	2	14	Air France, Delta Air Lines
SEA to CDG	1.86	13	Air France, Delta Air Lines

Two carriers hold the sector, Air France and Delta Air Lines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.

Between them the two directions put about 27 departures a week on CDG to SEA, 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 10h 12m block time on CDG to SEA. 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 SEA in the air, estimated	612 min	14h 42m
Formalities at SEA	90 min	16h 12m
Delivery run in Seattle	45 min	16h 57m
Door to door	1,017 min	16h 57m

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 SEA is 16h 57m.

A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Seattle at about 10:12 local and at the door by 12:27 the same day.

Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Seattle, the last useful departure from Paris is around 14:33 local.

At 16h 57m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.

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. 47 of them join CDG to SEA.

Connecting at	CDG to hub, flights a day	Hub to SEA, flights a day	Track, km	Estimated, gate to gate
Reykjavik KEF	3.86	4.29	8,052	11h 52m
Vancouver YVR	1.14	14.86	8,130	12h 06m
Dublin DUB	10.29	1.14	8,068	12h 10m
Calgary YYC	1.14	6.71	8,088	12h 11m
London LHR	13.43	6.71	8,049	12h 18m
Amsterdam AMS	12.43	2.43	8,238	12h 32m

One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CDG in the afternoon actually flies on.

47 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Reykjavik KEF, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.9 times a day.

Through KEF the routing covers 8,052 km against the 8,049 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 52m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.

That is only 1h 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.

Behind it, Vancouver YVR at 12h 06m and Dublin DUB at 12h 10m 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 Seattle, Victoria YYJ is 157 km away by great circle and carries 22 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 Seattle.

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 SEA. 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.
Boeing, Everett and RentonWidebody and 737 final assembly. A European supplier base and an American line, eight time zones apart. Logistics through Seattle SEA.

Plan Paris to Seattle 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.

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 SEA 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.

More pairs through CDG and SEA: Paris to Frankfurt, London to Paris, Paris to Madrid, Amsterdam to Paris, Paris to Barcelona, Paris to Atlanta, Munich to Paris, Paris to Copenhagen.

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