ATH Athens

How deep the ATH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ATH. This reads the same 172 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.

• 80of the 172 destinations are flown by one airline
• 59destinations run less than once a day
• 34destinations have four or more departures a day
• 64%of the destinations name Aegean Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ATH

76 airlines appear on the ATH board and they do not hold it evenly. Aegean Airlines is on 110 of the 172 destinations, 64 per cent of them, and on 32 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 399.7 of the 472 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 Sky Express on 39 destinations. 44 of the 76 airlines at ATH 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 110 of the 172 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ATH sector is usually another Aegean Airlines 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 ATH than the destination count does.

How much of the ATH board is daily

Of the 172 destinations, 113 are flown at least once a day and 59 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ATH 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: ATH to Strasbourg (SXB) 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 81.6 of the 472 departures a day, 17.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 167 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at ATH usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Billund BLL	Denmark	Copenhagen Airtaxi	1	2,266	plan this
Brest/Guipavas BES	France	Volotea	1	2,559	plan this
Kastoria KSO	Greece	Sky Express	1	361	plan this
Minneapolis MSP	the United States	American Airlines	1	8,863	plan this
Pisa PSA	Italy	Aegean Airlines	1	1,305	plan this
Poznań POZ	Poland	Buzz (Ryanair Sun)	1	1,703	plan this
Strasbourg SXB	France	Volotea	1	1,764	plan this
Alicante ALC	Spain	easyJet	2	2,138	plan this
Bâle/Mulhouse BSL	France	easyJet	2	1,711	plan this
Firenze FLR	Italy	Aegean Airlines	2	1,252	plan this

The ten destinations out of ATH 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. 39 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ATH

The desk holds the return direction for 127 of the 172 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into ATH runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Skopje (SKP) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back, Podgorica (TGD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Charlotte (CLT) at 2 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 1.9 a day back into ATH against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ATH

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

The night at ATH

17 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 ATH that lands inside it leaves around 21:54, on a modelled block of 3h 36m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from ATH that lands inside it leaves around 20:34, on a modelled block of 2h 26m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ATH that lands inside it leaves around 21:11, on a modelled block of 2h 49m. Those three departure times out of ATH 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 ATH turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at ATH, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Athens to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), Athens to London (LHR) and Athens to Rome (FCO).

Three of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Cairo to Athens, Dubai to Athens and Sharjah to Athens. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at ATH written out.

Four courier postings name ATH as the airport a courier here flies from: Athens, Chalkída and Thebes.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ATH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 172 destinations above.