The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TLS Toulouse to ALC Alicante
Toulouse Blagnac, France, to Alicante-Elche Airport, Spain. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 616 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 24m
- Door to door
- 8h 09m
What TLS to ALC looks like
The TLS to ALC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Toulouse TLS to Alicante ALC is a short sector of 616 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 616 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 24m.
Toulouse TLS is a large airport in the network held here, 90 scheduled destinations and 100.6 departures a day. Alicante ALC has 145 destinations and 231.5 departures a day.
Toulouse and Alicante 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 TLS to ALC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLS to ALC | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair |
| ALC to TLS | 0.71 | 5 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 11 departures a week on TLS to ALC, 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 24m block time on TLS to ALC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TLS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TLS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TLS to ALC in the air, estimated | 84 min | 5h 54m |
| Formalities at ALC | 90 min | 7h 24m |
| Delivery run in Alicante | 45 min | 8h 09m |
| Door to door | 489 min | 8h 09m |
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 TLS to ALC is 8h 09m.
A courier who leaves Toulouse at 09:00 local is on the ground in Alicante at about 10:24 local and at the door by 12:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Alicante, the last useful departure from Toulouse is around 14:21 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. 42 of them join TLS to ALC.
| Connecting at | TLS to hub, flights a day | Hub to ALC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palma PMI | 2.57 | 4.43 | 786 | 3h 24m |
| Oran ORN | 1.86 | 3 | 1,202 | 3h 35m |
| Algiers ALG | 1.43 | 3.43 | 1,164 | 3h 43m |
| Madrid MAD | 3 | 5.71 | 893 | 3h 49m |
| Marseille MRS | 1.43 | 1.57 | 1,063 | 3h 49m |
| Seville SVQ | 0.71 | 1.14 | 1,401 | 3h 53m |
42 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Palma PMI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through PMI the routing covers 786 km against the 616 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 24m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 00m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Oran ORN at 3h 35m and Algiers ALG at 3h 43m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Toulouse, Bordeaux BOD is 213 km away by great circle and carries 84 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Alicante, Valencia VLC is 134 km away by great circle and carries 101 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 TLS or ALC. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Toulouse BlagnacFinal assembly for the A320, A330 and A350 families, and the group head office. An assembly line that stops waits for one part, and Toulouse is where the aircraft is standing. Logistics through Toulouse TLS.
Plan Toulouse to Alicante 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 TLS to ALC 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 TLS airport entry
- The ALC airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Spain
- The written lane, Casablanca to Toulouse
- The written lane, Dubai to Toulouse
- The written lane, Queretaro to Toulouse
- The route calculator
More pairs through TLS and ALC: Derby and Nottingham to Alicante, Eindhoven to Alicante, Alicante to Stockholm, Alicante to Oslo, Hamburg to Alicante, Bratislava to Alicante, Paris to Alicante, Stavanger to Alicante.