ABJ Abidjan

How deep the ABJ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ABJ. This reads the same 28 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.

• 19of the 28 destinations are flown by one airline
• 15destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 57.1%of the destinations name Air Cote D'Ivoire, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ABJ

21 airlines appear on the ABJ board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Cote D'Ivoire is on 16 of the 28 destinations, 57.1 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 28.9 of the 36.4 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 Air Senegal on 3 destinations. 8 of the 21 airlines at ABJ 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.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 16 of the 28 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ABJ sector is usually another Air Cote D'Ivoire aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at ABJ than the destination count does.

How much of the ABJ board is daily

Of the 28 destinations, 13 are flown at least once a day and 15 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ABJ board is flown 5 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: ABJ to Brussels (BRU) 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 16.6 of the 36.4 departures a day, 45.5 per cent of the whole board. With 53.6 per cent of the 28 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
Beirut BEY	Lebanon	Middle East Airlines	1	5,155	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Brussels Airlines	1	5,135	plan this
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	2	3,570	plan this
Bobo Dioulasso BOY	Burkina Faso	Air Burkina	2	658	plan this
Kinshasa FIH	the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Air Cote D'Ivoire	2	2,404	plan this
Pointe Noire PNR	the Republic of the Congo	Air Cote D'Ivoire	2	2,083	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	3	4,618	plan this
Doha DOH	Qatar	Qatar Airways	3	6,307	plan this
Nairobi NBO	Kenya	Kenya Airways	3	4,596	plan this
New York JFK	the United States	Ethiopian Airlines	3	7,932	plan this

The ten destinations out of ABJ 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. 5 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ABJ

The desk holds the return direction for 23 of the 28 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into ABJ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Luanda (NBJ) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back and Doha (DOH) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Niamey (NIM) files 1 a day back into ABJ against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ABJ

ABJ keeps Africa/Abidjan time, four hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 05:00 at ABJ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at ABJ until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at ABJ

3 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from ABJ that lands inside it leaves around 15:36, on a modelled block of 6h 24m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ABJ that lands inside it leaves around 15:08, on a modelled block of 6h 22m. Into Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ABJ that lands inside it leaves around 14:19, on a modelled block of 6h 41m. Those three departure times out of ABJ 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 ABJ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Côte d'Ivoire country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

One courier posting names ABJ as the airport a courier here flies from: Abidjan.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ABJ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 28 destinations above.