Connecting at Manchester

Pick your two flights to see how much time that connection had between the gates on each of its last 10 days.

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Time between the gates, by time on the timetable

TypicallyThe shortest 1 in 10 had this or less

25 to 44 min on the timetable

Typically 41 min between the gates; 1 in 10 had 1 min or less. 4,527 connections

45 to 59 min on the timetable

Typically 56 min between the gates; 1 in 10 had 14 min or less. 3,777 connections

1 h to 1 h 14 on the timetable

Typically 1 h 14 between the gates; 1 in 10 had 33 min or less. 3,606 connections

1 h 15 to 1 h 29 on the timetable

Typically 1 h 29 between the gates; 1 in 10 had 46 min or less. 3,262 connections

1 h 30 to 1 h 59 on the timetable

Typically 1 h 50 between the gates; 1 in 10 had 1 h 02 or less. 6,074 connections

2 h to 2 h 59 on the timetable

Typically 2 h 37 between the gates; 1 in 10 had 1 h 42 or less. 11,193 connections

3 h to 4 h on the timetable

Typically 3 h 39 between the gates; 1 in 10 had 2 h 44 or less. 11,298 connections

43,737 connections, 7 Oct to 3 Nov 2026, on partner airlines. Between the gates: the first plane reaching its gate to the second leaving its gate; boarding closes before that, so ask your airline when. Airlines sell a connection only when it is at least the airport’s minimum connection time, a figure for booking: these are the times connections then had.

More or less than the timetable

22% of connections had 15 min or more less than the timetable.

30 min or more less13%

15 to 29 min less9%

1 to 14 min less15%

0 to 14 min more22%

15 min or more extra41%

Typically 9 min more than the timetable.

Busiest connections

London Heathrow to Dublin27 connections Dublin to London Heathrow25 connections London Heathrow to Belfast City18 connections Belfast City to Dublin16 connections Dublin to Barcelona16 connections Amsterdam to Paris Charles de Gaulle15 connections Belfast City to London Heathrow15 connections Paris Charles de Gaulle to Amsterdam14 connections Dublin to Alicante14 connections Belfast International to Paris Charles de Gaulle13 connections Dublin to Belfast City12 connections Alicante to Dublin11 connections

By the hour you land

Share with 15 min or more less than the timetable.

By where you fly in from

Europe22%

UK and Ireland18%

Africa27%

Asia24%

North America11%

Middle East24%

Share with 15 min or more less than the timetable.

Flights in from 170 places

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Flights out to 172 places

142 more

Aberdeen Abu Dhabi Addis Ababa Almeria Amman Athens Atlanta Banjul Basel Beauvais Beijing Bergen Berlin Bilbao Bodrum Bologna Bordeaux Bratislava Bridgetown Brussels Brussels Charleroi Bucharest Cairo Carcassonne Casablanca Castletown Catania Cologne Cork Corvera Derry Dhaka Djerba Doha Dubai Düsseldorf Enfidha Espargos Forli Frankfurt am Main Funchal Gdansk Geneva Gibraltar Girona Giza Glasgow Göteborg Hamburg Helsinki Hong Kong Ibiza Inverness Islamabad Istanbul Izmir Jeddah Jerez de la Forntera Kalamata Katowice Kefalonia Killarney Knock Kos Krakow Kuwait City La Palma Lahore Larnaca Limoges Lisbon Ljubljana Luxembourg Luxor Madrid Mahón Manama Melbourne (Florida)Milan Milan Bergamo Milan Linate Montego Bay Mopa Munich Napoli New York JFK Newquay Nice Nuremberg Olbia Orlando Oslo Palermo Phuket Pisa Plovdiv Porto Poznan Preveza Punta Cana Rabat Rabil Reus Reykjavík Rhodes Riga Riyadh Roma Rome Rovaniemi Rzeszow Saint Helier Saint Peter Port Samos Santorini Seville Shanghai Shannon Singapore Skopje Souda Split Stavanger Stockholm Stuttgart Tangier Thessaloniki Tirana Tivat Torino Toronto Torp Tromso Valencia Valletta Venezia Verona Vienna Warsaw Modlin Wroclaw Zakynthos Zurich

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