AMS Amsterdam

How deep the AMS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from AMS. This reads the same 281 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.

• 162of the 281 destinations are flown by one airline
• 96destinations run less than once a day
• 65destinations have four or more departures a day
• 53.7%of the destinations name KLM, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at AMS

119 airlines appear on the AMS board and they do not hold it evenly. KLM is on 151 of the 281 destinations, 53.7 per cent of them, and on 76 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 602.3 of the 743.4 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 Transavia on 62 destinations. 86 of the 119 airlines at AMS 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 151 of the 281 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an AMS sector is usually another KLM 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 AMS than the destination count does.

How much of the AMS board is daily

Of the 281 destinations, 185 are flown at least once a day and 96 are not, 24 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the AMS 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: AMS to Teterboro (TEB) 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 70.2 of the 743.4 departures a day, 9.4 per cent of the whole board. The other 276 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at AMS usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Adana ADA	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,920	plan this
Arnhem QAR	the Netherlands	Dutch Aviation Police Service	1	80	plan this
Bedford BED	the United States	NUM	1	5,558	plan this
Brussels CRL	Belgium	EFS European Flight Service	1	207	plan this
Buffalo BUF	the United States	KLM	1	5,989	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	TUI Airlines Nederland (Netherlands)	1	8,281	plan this
Dundee DND	the United Kingdom	JFU	1	682	plan this
Fairford FFD	the United Kingdom	Atlas Air	1	454	plan this
Hawarden CEG	the United Kingdom	JVW	1	530	plan this
Katowice KTW	Poland	ASL Airlines Belgium	1	1,012	plan this

The ten destinations out of AMS 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. 72 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from AMS

The desk holds the return direction for 193 of the 281 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into AMS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Edmonton (YEG) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back, Guangzhou (CAN) at 1.4 out a day against 1 back and Cork (ORK) at 3.3 out a day against 2.4 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 6.1 a day back into AMS against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at AMS

AMS keeps Europe/Amsterdam 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 AMS, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at AMS and still make a departure the same day.

The night at AMS

AMS carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Night operations between 23:00 and 07:00 local are limited by an annual cap and runway rules. That is a hole of eight hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:00 does not go until 07:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

16 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 AMS that lands inside it leaves around 23:27, on a modelled block of 1h 03m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from AMS that lands inside it leaves around 22:55, on a modelled block of 1h 05m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from AMS that lands inside it leaves around 20:31, on a modelled block of 1h 29m. Those three departure times out of AMS 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 AMS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at AMS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Amsterdam to London (LHR), Amsterdam to Barcelona (BCN) and Amsterdam to Dublin (DUB).

13 of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Bangalore and Amsterdam to Detroit. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at AMS written out.

15 courier postings name AMS as the airport a courier here flies from: Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with AMS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 281 destinations above.