Door to door, not time in the vehicle

The flight from Paris to London is in the air for under an hour. The train takes more than twice that, and still gets you there first. This works out the whole journey for every mode that runs between two places, and shows you which part of it is the airport.

Work out a journey

Slower in the vehicle, sooner at the door

The train spends 1h 8m longer moving than the flight does, and arrives 1h 18m earlier door to door. The airport is where the difference goes.

Every mode that runs this corridor, slowest part first. The total is the five figures beside it added up, and each one says where it came from.

Brussels to Paris

Train
In the vehicle: 1h 53m2h 37m
Bruxelles Midi / Paris Gare de Lyon
To the terminal
14mDerived
Check in and wait
8mDerived
In the vehicle
1h 53mDerived
Changing
0mDerived
Out and onward
22mDerived
This corridor has no filed timetable, so the time in the vehicle is worked out from the real distance, the detour the mode carries and a modelled speed for the operator.
Flight
In the vehicle: 45m3h 55m
Brussels Airport BRU / Charles de Gaulle International Airport CDG
To the terminal
45mDerived
Check in and wait
50mDerived
In the vehicle
45mDerived
Changing
0mDerived
Out and onward
1h 35mDerived
This corridor has no filed timetable, so the time in the vehicle is worked out from the real distance, the detour the mode carries and a modelled speed for the operator.
Coach
In the vehicle: 3h 30m4h 14m
Bruxelles Nord / Paris Bercy Seine
To the terminal
14mDerived
Check in and wait
8mDerived
In the vehicle
3h 30mDerived
Changing
0mDerived
Out and onward
22mDerived
This corridor has no filed timetable, so the time in the vehicle is worked out from the real distance, the detour the mode carries and a modelled speed for the operator.

What is filed and what is not

Only the time in the vehicle is ever filed. The access leg, the wait and the leg out at the far end are derived on every corridor, and the table says which is which line by line.

We hold filed timetables for 545 corridors. Everything else on this page is derived.

How this is worked out

Time in the vehicle comes from the same engine that answers the search box, so this tool and a results page always agree. Where a corridor has a filed timetable we use the filed departure and arrival instead, and say so.

The access allowance is the one published on the methodology page: 95 minutes for an airport, 45 for a ferry port and 22 for a station or coach stop, at each end of the journey. This tool splits each allowance into the travel to the terminal and the time spent inside it, a split of our own. The figures are:

Flight: 45 minutes to the terminal, 50 inside it, 95 at each end.
Ferry: 25 minutes to the terminal, 20 inside it, 45 at each end.
Train: 14 minutes to the terminal, 8 inside it, 22 at each end.
Coach: 14 minutes to the terminal, 8 inside it, 22 at each end.

Public transport reproduces the published allowance exactly. A taxi takes a quarter off the travel leg and walking adds two fifths to it, and neither changes the time inside the terminal. Both multipliers are assumptions of this tool.

Every answer is worked out for 28 September 2026, the service date the filed snapshots were taken for.

How every number on this site is worked out

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<iframe src="https://orlero.com/en-gb/tools/door-to-door/embed?from=brussels&to=paris&access=transit" width="100%" height="620" style="border:0" title="Door to door, not time in the vehicle" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://orlero.com/en-gb/tools/door-to-door?from=brussels&to=paris&access=transit">Door-to-door times by Orlero</a></p>

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The JSON API

The same answer as JSON, for anybody building on it. No key, no sign up.

GET https://orlero.com/api/tools/door-to-door?from=brussels&to=paris&access=transit

Parameters

from: a place id, slug or name. Required.
to: a place id, slug or name. Required.
access: transit, taxi or walk. Optional, defaults to transit. transit x1, taxi x0.75, walk x1.4

Every result carries a components array of five entries, each with its own evidence value of filed or derived. The shape is stable at version 1.0.0: fields may be added, never removed or redefined.

Rate limited to 60 requests a minute per address. Over that it answers 429 with a Retry-After header.

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