ALG Algiers

How deep the ALG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ALG. This reads the same 88 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.

• 54of the 88 destinations are flown by one airline
• 44destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 92%of the destinations name Air Algerie, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ALG

23 airlines appear on the ALG board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Algerie is on 81 of the 88 destinations, 92 per cent of them, and on 48 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 125.1 of the 133.3 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 Tassili Airlines on 10 destinations. 15 of the 23 airlines at ALG 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 81 of the 88 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ALG sector is usually another Air Algerie 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 ALG than the destination count does.

How much of the ALG board is daily

Of the 88 destinations, 44 are flown at least once a day and 44 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ALG board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ALG to Vienna (VIE) 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 41.1 of the 133.3 departures a day, 30.9 per cent of the whole board. The other 83 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at ALG usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Budapest BUD	Hungary	Air Algerie	1	1,777	plan this
Clermont-Ferrand/Auvergne CFE	France	ASL Airlines France	1	1,011	plan this
Libreville LBV	Gabon	Air Algerie	1	4,079	plan this
Luanda NBJ	Angola	Air Algerie	1	5,199	plan this
Ouagadougou OUA	Burkina Faso	Air Algerie	1	2,747	plan this
Paris LBG	France	ARL	1	1,367	plan this
Tiaret TID	Algeria	Tassili Airlines	1	218	plan this
Vienna VIE	Austria	Air Algerie	1	1,673	plan this
Abidjan ABJ	Cote d'Ivoire	Air Algerie	2	3,570	plan this
Abuja ABV	Nigeria	Air Algerie	2	3,105	plan this

The ten destinations out of ALG 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. 27 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ALG

The desk holds the return direction for 55 of the 88 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into ALG runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Medina (MED) at 1.1 out a day against 0.29 back, Abuja (ABV) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Hassi Messaoud (HME) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Paris (ORY) files 9.4 a day back into ALG against 4.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ALG

ALG keeps Africa/Algiers time, three hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at ALG, 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 ALG until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at ALG

8 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 ALG that lands inside it leaves around 20:45, on a modelled block of 2h 15m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ALG that lands inside it leaves around 20:17, on a modelled block of 2h 13m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ALG that lands inside it leaves around 19:32, on a modelled block of 2h 28m. Those three departure times out of ALG 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 ALG turns up on the rest of this site

ALG carries two other pages on this site as well: the Algeria country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the ALG transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 7 airport pair pages that start or end at ALG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Algiers to Marseille (MRS), Algiers to Lyon (LYS) and Algiers to Paris (ORY).

Two courier postings name ALG as the airport a courier here flies from: Algiers and Blida.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ALG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 88 destinations above.