The sector is held by easyJet and Volotea.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
VCE Venice to LYS Lyon
Marco Polo Airport, Italy, to Lyon Saint-Exupery, France. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 565 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 20m
- Door to door
- 8h 05m
What VCE to LYS looks like
The VCE to LYS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Venice VCE to Lyon LYS is a short sector of 565 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 565 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 20m.
Venice VCE is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 175 departures a day. Lyon LYS has 122 destinations and 152.8 departures a day.
Venice and Lyon 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 VCE to LYS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| VCE to LYS | 1.29 | 9 | easyJet, Volotea |
| LYS to VCE | 1.14 | 8 | easyJet, Volotea |
Two carriers hold the sector, easyJet and Volotea, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 17 departures a week on VCE to LYS, 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 20m block time on VCE to LYS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to VCE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At VCE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| VCE to LYS in the air, estimated | 80 min | 5h 50m |
| Formalities at LYS | 90 min | 7h 20m |
| Delivery run in Lyon | 45 min | 8h 05m |
| Door to door | 485 min | 8h 05m |
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 VCE to LYS is 8h 05m.
A courier who leaves Venice at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lyon at about 10:20 local and at the door by 12:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lyon, the last useful departure from Venice is around 14:25 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. 54 of them join VCE to LYS.
| Connecting at | VCE to hub, flights a day | Hub to LYS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva GVA | 1.29 | 1.14 | 587 | 3h 07m |
| Nice NCE | 1.14 | 1.43 | 741 | 3h 20m |
| Milan MXP | 0.71 | 1 | 565 | 3h 20m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 3.57 | 905 | 3h 50m |
| Bordeaux BOD | 1 | 5.29 | 1,491 | 4h 00m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.71 | 0.71 | 1,482 | 4h 01m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at VCE in the afternoon actually flies on.
54 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 about once a day.
Through GVA the routing covers 587 km against the 565 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 07m 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, Nice NCE at 3h 20m and Milan MXP at 3h 20m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Venice, Treviso TSF is 20 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 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 VCE or LYS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan Venice to Lyon 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 VCE to LYS 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 VCE airport entry
- The LYS airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into France
- The route calculator
More pairs through VCE and LYS: Frankfurt to Lyon, Lyon to Toulouse, Lyon to Dubai, Lyon to Lisbon, Lyon to Montreal, Lyon to Athens, Dusseldorf to Lyon, Lyon to Prague.