HBE Alexandria

How deep the HBE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HBE. This reads the same 14 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 8of the 14 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 35.7%of the destinations name Air Cairo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HBE

15 airlines appear on the HBE board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Cairo is on 5 of the 14 destinations, 35.7 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 10 of the 22.1 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 EgyptAir on 4 destinations. 11 of the 15 airlines at HBE 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 HBE: one airline on 35.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 64.3 per cent spread across 14 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Cairo network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 9 destinations Air Cairo does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the HBE board is daily

Of the 14 destinations, 6 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the HBE board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: HBE to Istanbul (SAW) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 16.7 of the 22.1 departures a day, 75.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves HBE is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Istanbul SAW	Turkiye	Pegasus	2	1,110	plan this
Athens ATH	Greece	Aegean Airlines	3	941	plan this
Misratah MRA	Libya	BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS	3	1,393	plan this
Sharm el Sheikh SSH	Egypt	Air Cairo	3	560	plan this
Ad Dammam DMM	Saudi Arabia	EgyptAir	4	2,019	plan this
Benghazi BEN	Libya	BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS	4	903	plan this

The six destinations out of HBE 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.

The way back from HBE

The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 14 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 13 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through HBE is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Jeddah (JED) files 7.3 a day back into HBE against 5.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HBE

HBE keeps Africa/Cairo time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two 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 08:00 at HBE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at HBE and still make a departure the same day.

Where HBE turns up on the rest of this site

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

One courier posting names HBE as the airport a courier here flies from: Alexandria.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HBE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 14 destinations above.