ALC Alicante

How deep the ALC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ALC. This reads the same 145 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.

• 90of the 145 destinations are flown by one airline
• 73destinations run less than once a day
• 17destinations have four or more departures a day
• 59.3%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ALC

40 airlines appear on the ALC board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 86 of the 145 destinations, 59.3 per cent of them, and on 53 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 146.2 of the 231.5 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 easyJet on 20 destinations. 22 of the 40 airlines at ALC 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 86 of the 145 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ALC sector is usually another Ryanair 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 ALC than the destination count does.

How much of the ALC board is daily

Of the 145 destinations, 72 are flown at least once a day and 73 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ALC board is flown 6 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: ALC to Tindouf (TIN) 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 37.3 of the 231.5 departures a day, 16.1 per cent of the whole board. With 50.3 per cent of the 145 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
Aarhus AAR	Denmark	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	2,167	plan this
Kjevik KRS	Norway	SAS	1	2,301	plan this
Tindouf TIN	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	1,373	plan this
Aalborg AAL	Denmark	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	2,226	plan this
Ålesund AES	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	2,738	plan this
Athens ATH	Greece	easyJet	2	2,138	plan this
Bari BRI	Italy	Ryanair	2	1,512	plan this
Billund BLL	Denmark	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	2,071	plan this
Bordeaux/Mérignac BOD	France	Volotea	2	728	plan this
Bydgoszcz BZG	Poland	Ryanair	2	2,175	plan this

The ten destinations out of ALC 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. 52 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ALC

The desk holds the return direction for 100 of the 145 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into ALC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Trondheim (TRD) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Bristol (BRS) at 5.9 out a day against 4.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 12.3 a day back into ALC against 3.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ALC

ALC keeps Europe/Madrid time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at ALC, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at ALC and still make a departure the same day.

The night at ALC

15 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 Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ALC that lands inside it leaves around 20:38, on a modelled block of 2h 22m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ALC that lands inside it leaves around 20:26, on a modelled block of 2h 34m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ALC that lands inside it leaves around 21:29, on a modelled block of 2h 01m. Those three departure times out of ALC 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 ALC turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 30 airport pair pages that start or end at ALC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Alicante to Bristol (BRS), Alicante to Birmingham (BHX) and Alicante to Liverpool (LPL).

Twelve courier postings name ALC as the airport a courier here flies from: Valencia, Murcia and Alicante.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ALC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 145 destinations above.