The sector is held by easyJet, La Compagnie and Transavia France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORY Paris to NCE Nice
Orly Airport, France, to Nice Cote d'Azur, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 676 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 30m
- Door to door
- 8h 15m
What ORY to NCE looks like
The ORY to NCE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris ORY to Nice NCE is a short sector of 676 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 676 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 30m.
Paris ORY is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 361.7 departures a day. Nice NCE has 116 destinations and 207 departures a day.
Paris and Nice 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 NCE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORY to NCE | 13.43 | 94 | easyJet, La Compagnie, Transavia France |
| NCE to ORY | 13.14 | 92 | easyJet, La Compagnie, Transavia France |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 13.4 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 186 departures a week on ORY to NCE, 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 30m block time on ORY to NCE. 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 NCE in the air, estimated | 90 min | 6h 00m |
| Formalities at NCE | 90 min | 7h 30m |
| Delivery run in Nice | 45 min | 8h 15m |
| Door to door | 495 min | 8h 15m |
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 NCE is 8h 15m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nice at about 10:30 local and at the door by 12:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nice, the last useful departure from Paris is around 14:15 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. 50 of them join ORY to NCE.
| Connecting at | ORY to hub, flights a day | Hub to NCE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 0.86 | 6.14 | 695 | 3h 17m |
| Toulouse TLS | 9.71 | 0.86 | 1,043 | 3h 33m |
| Venice VCE | 4 | 1.14 | 1,292 | 3h 59m |
| Barcelona BCN | 10.14 | 3.57 | 1,322 | 4h 17m |
| London LHR | 1.14 | 8.86 | 1,407 | 4h 22m |
| Palma PMI | 6.86 | 1.14 | 1,609 | 4h 25m |
With 13.4 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.
50 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 6 times a week.
Through GVA the routing covers 695 km against the 676 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 17m 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, Toulouse TLS at 3h 33m and Venice VCE at 3h 59m 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 Nice, Genoa GOA is 154 km away by great circle and carries 30 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 Nice.
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 NCE. 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 Nice 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 NCE 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.
More pairs through ORY and NCE: Dubai to Nice, Abu Dhabi to Nice, Hamburg to Nice, Stuttgart to Nice, Toulouse to Nice, Eindhoven to Nice, Beirut to Nice, Hannover to Nice.