The sector is held by Wizz Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to BUD Budapest
Orly Airport, France, to Budapest Ferenc Liszt, Hungary. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,261 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 07m
- Door to door
- 8h 52m
What ORY to BUD looks like
The ORY to BUD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Budapest BUD is a medium haul sector of 1,261 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,261 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 07m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Budapest BUD has 158 destinations and 222.9 departures a day.
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 ORY to BUD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to BUD | 1.14 | 8 | Wizz Air |
| BUD to ORY | 1.14 | 8 | Wizz Air |
One carrier holds the sector, Wizz Air, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on ORY 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 07m block time on ORY 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 ORY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ORY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ORY to BUD in the air, estimated | 127 min | 6h 37m |
| Formalities at BUD | 90 min | 8h 07m |
| Delivery run in Budapest | 45 min | 8h 52m |
| Door to door | 532 min | 8h 52m |
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 ORY to BUD is 8h 52m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Budapest at about 11:07 local and at the door by 13:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Budapest, the last useful departure from Paris is around 13:38 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. 65 of them join ORY to BUD.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to BUD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vienna VIE | 0.57 | 3.57 | 1,263 | 3h 54m |
| Prague PRG | 1.14 | 0.86 | 1,344 | 4h 04m |
| Pisa PSA | 1.86 | 0.71 | 1,640 | 4h 06m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.86 | 0.71 | 1,403 | 4h 07m |
| Venice VCE | 4 | 0.86 | 1,406 | 4h 09m |
| Krakow KRK | 1 | 1.14 | 1,563 | 4h 18m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ORY in the afternoon actually flies on.
65 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 4 times a week.
Through VIE the routing covers 1,263 km against the 1,261 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 54m 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, Prague PRG at 4h 04m and Pisa PSA at 4h 06m 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 CDG is 35 km away by great circle and carries 277 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 ORY is shut to scheduled movements between 23:30 and 06:00 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 ORY, night restrictions: Closed to scheduled traffic between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through ORY 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 ORY.
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 ORY 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 ORY airport entry
- The BUD airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Hungary
- The written lane, Shanghai to Budapest
- The route calculator
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