The sector is held by easyJet and Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to MXP Milan
Orly Airport, France, to Milan Malpensa, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 591 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 22m
- Door to door
- 8h 07m
What ORY to MXP looks like
The ORY to MXP sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Milan MXP is a short sector of 591 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 591 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 22m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Milan MXP has 201 destinations and 366.7 departures a day.
Paris and Milan 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 MXP from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to MXP | 3.71 | 26 | easyJet, Transavia France |
| MXP to ORY | 1.71 | 12 | Transavia France |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Transavia France, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: ORY to MXP runs 3.7 times a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
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 37.9 departures a week on ORY to MXP, 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 22m block time on ORY to MXP. 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 MXP in the air, estimated | 82 min | 5h 52m |
| Formalities at MXP | 90 min | 7h 22m |
| Delivery run in Milan | 45 min | 8h 07m |
| Door to door | 487 min | 8h 07m |
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 MXP is 8h 07m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Milan at about 10:22 local and at the door by 12:37 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Milan, the last useful departure from Paris is around 14:23 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 MXP.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to MXP, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 0.86 | 0.71 | 608 | 3h 09m |
| Marseille MRS | 1.14 | 1.14 | 998 | 3h 43m |
| Venice VCE | 4 | 0.71 | 1,118 | 3h 44m |
| Bilbao BIO | 2.14 | 3.43 | 1,685 | 4h 17m |
| Prague PRG | 1.14 | 1.86 | 1,519 | 4h 19m |
| Berlin BER | 2.29 | 1 | 1,707 | 4h 26m |
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.
69 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Geneva GVA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through GVA the routing covers 608 km against the 591 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 09m 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, Marseille MRS at 3h 43m and Venice VCE at 3h 44m 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 Milan, Milan LIN is 47 km away by great circle and carries 87 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 Milan.
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 MXP. 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.
- Stellantis, Turin MirafioriAssembly and the group's Italian engineering centre. Milan is the long haul gate when Turin has nothing suitable. Logistics through Milan MXP.
Plan Paris to Milan 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 MXP 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 MXP airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Milan
- The written lane, Doha to Milan
- The written lane, Dubai to Milan
- The route calculator
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