The sector is held by LOT - Polish Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ARN Stockholm to WAW Warsaw
Stockholm Arlanda, Sweden, to Warsaw Chopin, Poland. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 854 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 35m
- Door to door
- 8h 20m
What ARN to WAW looks like
The ARN to WAW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Stockholm ARN to Warsaw WAW is a short sector of 854 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 854 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 35m.
Stockholm ARN is a major hub in the network held here, 160 scheduled destinations and 329.4 departures a day. Warsaw WAW has 165 destinations and 327.5 departures a day.
Stockholm and Warsaw 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 ARN to WAW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARN to WAW | 3.29 | 23 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
| WAW to ARN | 3.43 | 24 | LOT - Polish Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, LOT - Polish Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.3 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 47 departures a week on ARN to WAW, 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 35m block time on ARN to WAW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ARN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ARN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ARN to WAW in the air, estimated | 95 min | 6h 05m |
| Formalities at WAW | 90 min | 7h 35m |
| Delivery run in Warsaw | 45 min | 8h 20m |
| Door to door | 500 min | 8h 20m |
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 ARN to WAW is 8h 20m.
A courier who leaves Stockholm at 09:00 local is on the ground in Warsaw at about 10:35 local and at the door by 12:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Warsaw, the last useful departure from Stockholm is around 14:10 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. 82 of them join ARN to WAW.
| Connecting at | ARN to hub, flights a day | Hub to WAW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gdansk GDN | 3 | 5.86 | 884 | 3h 18m |
| Riga RIX | 5.14 | 3.86 | 1,029 | 3h 31m |
| Vilnius VNO | 2.43 | 6 | 1,108 | 3h 38m |
| Gothenburg GOT | 6.71 | 0.86 | 1,219 | 3h 38m |
| Tallinn TLL | 6.14 | 5.29 | 1,232 | 3h 39m |
| Krakow KRK | 2.43 | 7.14 | 1,317 | 3h 59m |
With 3.3 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.
82 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Gdansk GDN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3 times a day.
Through GDN the routing covers 884 km against the 854 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 18m 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 43m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Riga RIX at 3h 31m and Vilnius VNO at 3h 38m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Warsaw, Krakow KRK is 246 km away by great circle and carries 135 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.
Stockholm ARN is shut to scheduled movements between 22:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Stockholm that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Warsaw.
Stockholm ARN, night restrictions: Night movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local with exemptions.
Plan Stockholm to Warsaw 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 ARN to WAW 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 ARN airport entry
- The WAW airport entry
- Hand carry into Sweden
- Hand carry into Poland
- The written lane, Dubai to Stockholm
- The written lane, Dubai to Warsaw
- The written lane, Warsaw to Seoul
- The route calculator
More pairs through ARN and WAW: Copenhagen to Stockholm, Amsterdam to Stockholm, London to Stockholm, Paris to Stockholm, Frankfurt to Stockholm, Munich to Stockholm, Vienna to Stockholm, Stockholm to Oslo.