Let G, H be two connected graphs with the same degree sequence. The aim of this paper is to find a transformation from G to H via a sequence of flips maintaining connectivity. A flip of G is an operation consisting in replacing two existing edges uv, xy of G by ux and vy. Taylor showed that there always exists a sequence of flips that transforms G into H maintaining connec-tivity. Bousquet and Mary proved that there exists a 4-approximation algorithm of a shortest transformation. In this paper, we show that there exists a 2.5-approximation algorithm running in polynomial time. We also discuss the tightness of the lower bound and show that, in order to drastically improve the approximation ratio, we need to improve the best known lower bounds.