The sector is held by Air France, Asiana Airlines, Korean Air and T'Way Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to ICN Seoul
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Incheon International, South Korea. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 8,927 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 15m
- Door to door
- 18h 00m
What CDG to ICN looks like
The CDG to ICN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Seoul ICN is an ultra long sector of 8,927 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 8,927 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 15m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Seoul ICN has 165 destinations and 641.2 departures a day.
Seoul runs 8 hours ahead of Paris in January and 7 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 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 ICN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to ICN | 3.71 | 26 | Air France, Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, T'Way Air |
| ICN to CDG | 3.29 | 23 | Air France, Asiana Airlines, Korean Air, T'Way Air |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.7 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 49 departures a week on CDG to ICN, 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 11h 15m block time on CDG to ICN. 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 ICN in the air, estimated | 675 min | 15h 45m |
| Formalities at ICN | 90 min | 17h 15m |
| Delivery run in Seoul | 45 min | 18h 00m |
| Door to door | 1,080 min | 18h 00m |
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 ICN is 18h 00m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Seoul at about 04:15 local and at the door by 06:30 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Seoul, nothing leaving Paris inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 18h 00m 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. 66 of them join CDG to ICN.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to ICN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copenhagen CPH | 11.14 | 1 | 8,928 | 13h 05m |
| Helsinki HEL | 6.43 | 1.14 | 8,928 | 13h 08m |
| Prague PRG | 5.86 | 1.14 | 9,089 | 13h 15m |
| Warsaw WAW | 7.86 | 1 | 9,068 | 13h 16m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 12.43 | 2 | 8,950 | 13h 23m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 14.57 | 4.43 | 8,992 | 13h 27m |
With 3.7 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.
66 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Copenhagen CPH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CPH the routing covers 8,928 km against the 8,927 km nonstop track and takes about 13h 05m 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 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Helsinki HEL at 13h 08m and Prague PRG at 13h 15m 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.
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 Seoul.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Seoul ICN, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or ICN. 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.
- Hyundai and Kia, Ulsan and HwaseongThe largest car plant complex in the world by capacity at Ulsan. Korean lines with European and American tooling. Logistics through Seoul ICN.
- Samsung, Hwaseong and GiheungMemory and logic fabrication. An hour south of Incheon, and the destination for a great deal of European equipment. Logistics through Seoul ICN.
Plan Paris to Seoul 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 ICN 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 ICN airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into South Korea
- 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 ICN: Paris to Frankfurt, London to Paris, Paris to Madrid, Amsterdam to Paris, Paris to Barcelona, Paris to Atlanta, Munich to Paris, Paris to Copenhagen.