ABZ Aberdeen

How deep the ABZ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ABZ. This reads the same 38 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 35of the 38 destinations are flown by one airline
• 25destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 34.2%of the destinations name Loganair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ABZ

20 airlines appear on the ABZ board and they do not hold it evenly. Loganair is on 13 of the 38 destinations, 34.2 per cent of them, and on 12 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 20.4 of the 45.7 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Ryanair on 4 destinations. 13 of the 20 airlines at ABZ appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at ABZ: one airline on 34.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 65.8 per cent spread across 19 airlines. A cancellation inside the Loganair network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 25 destinations Loganair does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the ABZ board is daily

Of the 38 destinations, 13 are flown at least once a day and 25 are not, 12 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ABZ board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ABZ to St. Athan (DGX) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 22 of the 45.7 departures a day, 48.1 per cent of the whole board. With 65.8 per cent of the 38 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bordeaux/Mérignac BOD	France	Aero Dienst	1	1,379	the pair page
Cardiff CWL	the United Kingdom	Loganair	1	650	plan this
Edinburgh EDI	the United Kingdom	Loganair	1	156	the pair page
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	CBM	1	665	plan this
Kerkyra Island CFU	Greece	TUI Airways	1	2,525	the pair page
Liverpool LPL	the United Kingdom	RVR	1	432	the pair page
London STN	the United Kingdom	NetJets Europe	1	611	the pair page
Milan LIN	Italy	HEY	1	1,527	the pair page
Newcastle upon Tyne NCL	the United Kingdom	FYL	1	243	the pair page
Oslo OSL	Norway	Air Norway	1	836	the pair page

The ten destinations out of ABZ where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 14 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ABZ

The desk holds the return direction for 21 of the 38 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into ABZ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Glasgow (GLA) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Edinburgh (EDI) files 0.29 a day back into ABZ against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ABZ

ABZ keeps Europe/London time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at ABZ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at ABZ until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at ABZ

4 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ABZ that lands inside it leaves around 22:03, on a modelled block of 1h 27m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ABZ that lands inside it leaves around 20:28, on a modelled block of 1h 32m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ABZ that lands inside it leaves around 21:59, on a modelled block of 1h 31m. Those three departure times out of ABZ are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where ABZ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United Kingdom country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 24 airport pair pages that start or end at ABZ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Aberdeen to London (LHR), Aberdeen to Amsterdam (AMS) and Aberdeen to Dublin (DUB).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Aberdeen to Stavanger and Houston to Aberdeen. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at ABZ written out.

Two courier postings name ABZ as the airport a courier here flies from: Aberdeen and Dundee.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ABZ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 38 destinations above.