The sector is held by easyJet, Jet2 and TUI Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
RHO Rhodes to BRS Bristol
Rhodes Diagoras, Greece, to Bristol Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,943 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 16m
- Door to door
- 11h 01m
What RHO to BRS looks like
The RHO to BRS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Rhodes RHO to Bristol BRS is a medium haul sector of 2,943 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,943 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 16m.
Rhodes RHO is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 134.1 departures a day. Bristol BRS has 116 destinations and 130.9 departures a day.
Bristol is 2 hours behind of Rhodes 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 RHO to BRS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHO to BRS | 2.14 | 15 | easyJet, Jet2, TUI Airways |
| BRS to RHO | 1.71 | 12 | easyJet, Jet2, TUI Airways |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 26.9 departures a week on RHO to BRS, 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 4h 16m block time on RHO to BRS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to RHO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At RHO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| RHO to BRS in the air, estimated | 256 min | 8h 46m |
| Formalities at BRS | 90 min | 10h 16m |
| Delivery run in Bristol | 45 min | 11h 01m |
| Door to door | 661 min | 11h 01m |
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 RHO to BRS is 11h 01m.
A courier who leaves Rhodes at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bristol at about 11:16 local and at the door by 13:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bristol, the last useful departure from Rhodes is around 13:29 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. 37 of them join RHO to BRS.
| Connecting at | RHO to hub, flights a day | Hub to BRS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kos KGS | 0.57 | 1.57 | 2,949 | 5h 47m |
| Bergamo BGY | 1 | 0.86 | 2,959 | 6h 02m |
| Bari BRI | 0.71 | 0.57 | 2,985 | 6h 03m |
| Geneva GVA | 0.57 | 1.14 | 2,988 | 6h 04m |
| Athens ATH | 9.14 | 0.57 | 2,967 | 6h 07m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 1.71 | 0.57 | 2,944 | 6h 08m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at RHO in the afternoon actually flies on.
37 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kos KGS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through KGS the routing covers 2,949 km against the 2,943 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 47m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 31m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bergamo BGY at 6h 02m and Bari BRI at 6h 03m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Rhodes, Kos KGS is 99 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Bristol, Birmingham BHX is 136 km away by great circle and carries 139 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through RHO or BRS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Filton, BristolWing design, fuel systems and landing gear engineering. Engineering hardware and test articles moving to and from the assembly lines. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
- Leonardo, YeovilHelicopter assembly and support. Support contracts with fixed response times. Logistics through Bristol BRS.
Plan Rhodes to Bristol 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 RHO to BRS 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 RHO airport entry
- The BRS airport entry
- Hand carry into Greece
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The route calculator
More pairs through RHO and BRS: Dublin to Bristol, Bristol to Prague, Berlin to Bristol, Bristol to Lisbon, Bristol to Toulouse, Aberdeen to Bristol, Geneva to Bristol, Budapest to Bristol.