The sector is held by Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to HER Heraklion
Orly Airport, France, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,386 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 33m
- Door to door
- 10h 18m
What ORY to HER looks like
The ORY to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 2,386 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,386 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 33m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion is one hour ahead of Paris all year.
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 HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to HER | 4.29 | 30 | Transavia France |
| HER to ORY | 4.29 | 30 | Transavia France |
One carrier holds the sector, Transavia France, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 4.3 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 60.1 departures a week on ORY to HER, 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 3h 33m block time on ORY to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 213 min | 8h 03m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 9h 33m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 10h 18m |
| Door to door | 618 min | 10h 18m |
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 HER is 10h 18m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 13:33 local and at the door by 15:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Paris is around 11:12 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. 36 of them join ORY to HER.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bari BRI | 2.57 | 0.57 | 2,386 | 5h 18m |
| Tirana TIA | 2 | 0.71 | 2,408 | 5h 19m |
| Naples NAP | 4.14 | 1 | 2,413 | 5h 20m |
| Athens ATH | 4.43 | 14.57 | 2,415 | 5h 23m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.86 | 1.14 | 2,398 | 5h 23m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.14 | 3.43 | 2,468 | 5h 32m |
With 4.3 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.
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bari BRI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BRI the routing covers 2,386 km against the 2,386 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 18m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tirana TIA at 5h 19m and Naples NAP at 5h 20m 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 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 Heraklion.
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 HER. 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 Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Greece
- The route calculator
More pairs through ORY and HER: Tel Aviv to Heraklion, Dusseldorf to Heraklion, Hamburg to Heraklion, Stuttgart to Heraklion, Hannover to Heraklion, Eindhoven to Heraklion, Derby and Nottingham to Heraklion, Bratislava to Heraklion.