OnBoard Courier AJet in the network the desk measures
Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the VF code that yields 164 city pairs across 97 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.
97airports on this carrier
35countries and territories reached
164scheduled city pairs held
587average daily flights across them
The schedule the desk holds carries the VF code on 164 city pairs, reaching 97 airports in 35 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by OnBoard Courier AJet and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 77.3 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on Asian time zones.
01The longest sector held for the carrier is Bishkek (BSZ) to Istanbul (SAW) at about 3,696 km, and the shortest is Edremit (EDO) to Istanbul (SAW) at about 246 km. 60.4 per cent of the pairs are under 1,500 km. This is a short sector operator, which for a hand carry out of the Gulf means it is almost always the second leg of the routing rather than the first. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Istanbul (SAW), on 80 of them, which is 48.8 per cent of everything held under this code.
02The thickest sector under the code is Antalya (AYT) to Istanbul (SAW) at about 25.9 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.9 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. 47 of the 164 pairs run four or more times a day and 43 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Istanbul (SAW) the code leans on Ankara (ESB) on 61, Bodrum (BJV) on 13, Antalya (AYT) on 6 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.
The sectors that carry the VF code most often
The 16 sectors the VF code appears on most often, out of 164. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.
Where VF meets the UAE gateways
OnBoard Courier AJet is one of the carriers a courier can board without leaving the Emirates. The desk holds 1 pairs under this code touching Dubai (DXB), so a booking can start at a UAE counter and stay on one ticket to the delivery city.
Night restrictions on the airports the VF code uses
A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 16 of the 97 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.
- Vienna (VIE), night restrictions. Movements between 23:30 and 05:30 local are limited.
- Berlin (BER), night restrictions. Core quiet period from midnight to 05:00 local, with restricted movements from 22:00 and until 06:00.
- Hamburg (HAM), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
- Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
- Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
- Düsseldorf (DUS), night restrictions. Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed.
Published lanes the VF code can carry half of
None of the 346 lanes the site publishes is flown end to end under this code. These 156 are the ones it touches at one end, which is how a routing gets built when no single carrier covers the whole distance: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg and this one finishes it. The lane index holds the rest.
- Sharjah to Baku, joined at Baku (GYD), which this code reaches on 3 of its pairs.
- Vienna to Bratislava, joined at Vienna (VIE), which this code reaches on 3 of its pairs.
- Vienna to Tokyo, joined at Vienna (VIE), which this code reaches on 3 of its pairs.
- Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, joined at Amsterdam (AMS), which this code reaches on 2 of its pairs.
- Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi, joined at Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), which this code reaches on 2 of its pairs.
- Abu Dhabi to Istanbul, joined at Istanbul (IST), which this code reaches on 2 of its pairs.
- Paris to Abu Dhabi, joined at Paris (CDG), which this code reaches on 2 of its pairs.
- Amsterdam to Bangalore, joined at Amsterdam (AMS), which this code reaches on 2 of its pairs.
The countries the VF code opens
Of the 35 countries and territories reached, 23 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Türkiye with 38 airports on this code. The country desk for Türkiye sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.
Türkiye (38 airports), Germany (11 airports), Egypt (4 airports), France (3 airports), Iraq (3 airports), Saudi Arabia (3 airports), Netherlands (2 airports), Kazakhstan (2 airports), Spain (2 airports), Russia (2 airports).
Where to go next on the VF network
Each of the 97 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 164 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Istanbul (SAW), the route calculator with Dubai to SAW already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.