The sector is held by easyJet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to GVA Geneva
Orly Airport, France, to Geneva Airport, Switzerland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 395 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 05m
- Door to door
- 7h 50m
What ORY to GVA looks like
The ORY to GVA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Geneva GVA is a short sector of 395 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 395 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 05m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Geneva GVA has 159 destinations and 227.4 departures a day.
Paris and Geneva 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 GVA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to GVA | 0.86 | 6 | easyJet |
| GVA to ORY | 0.86 | 6 | easyJet |
One carrier holds the sector, easyJet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 12 departures a week on ORY to GVA, 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 ORY to GVA. 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 GVA in the air, estimated | 65 min | 5h 35m |
| Formalities at GVA | 90 min | 7h 05m |
| Delivery run in Geneva | 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 ORY to GVA is 7h 50m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Geneva 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 Geneva, 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. 69 of them join ORY to GVA.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to GVA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan LIN | 1.43 | 1 | 899 | 3h 19m |
| Toulouse TLS | 9.71 | 1 | 1,045 | 3h 33m |
| Milan MXP | 3.71 | 0.71 | 804 | 3h 41m |
| Nice NCE | 13.43 | 6 | 976 | 3h 42m |
| Venice VCE | 4 | 1.29 | 1,326 | 4h 02m |
| London LHR | 1.14 | 13 | 1,120 | 4h 09m |
69 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Milan LIN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LIN the routing covers 899 km against the 395 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 19m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 14m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Toulouse TLS at 3h 33m and Milan MXP 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 395 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 10m, 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 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 Geneva, Lyon LYS is 97 km away by great circle and carries 122 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 Geneva.
Paris ORY, night restrictions: Closed to scheduled traffic between 23:30 and 06:00 local.
Geneva GVA is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Paris late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Geneva GVA, night restrictions: No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Paris later than about 22:55 local arrives at GVA 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 ORY or GVA. 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 Geneva 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 GVA 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 GVA airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Switzerland
- The written lane, Dubai to Geneva
- The route calculator
More pairs through ORY and GVA: Geneva to London, Geneva to Madrid, Paris to Geneva, Amsterdam to Geneva, Zurich to Geneva, Barcelona to Geneva, Geneva to Frankfurt, Brussels to Geneva.