BKK Bangkok

How deep the BKK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BKK. This reads the same 138 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.

• 71of the 138 destinations are flown by one airline
• 45destinations run less than once a day
• 38destinations have four or more departures a day
• 44.2%of the destinations name Thai Airways International, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BKK

119 airlines appear on the BKK board and they do not hold it evenly. Thai Airways International is on 61 of the 138 destinations, 44.2 per cent of them, and on 13 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 393.7 of the 531.9 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 Thai Vietjet Air on 28 destinations. 78 of the 119 airlines at BKK 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 BKK: one airline on 44.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.8 per cent spread across 118 airlines. A cancellation inside the Thai Airways International network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 77 destinations Thai Airways International does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the BKK board is daily

Of the 138 destinations, 93 are flown at least once a day and 45 are not, 6 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BKK 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: BKK to Yantai (YNT) 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 123.3 of the 531.9 departures a day, 23.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 133 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at BKK usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Changsha CSX	China	Xiamen Airlines	1	2,066	plan this
Madrid TOJ	Spain	Evelop Airlines	1	10,183	plan this
Phnom Penh PNH	Cambodia	PTW	1	504	plan this
Varanasi VNS	India	Air India Express	1	2,282	plan this
Xining XNN	China	Thai Vietjet Air	1	2,544	plan this
Yantai YNT	China	Thai Vietjet Air	1	3,333	plan this
Amman AMM	Jordan	Royal Jordanian	2	6,841	the pair page
Cincinnati CVG	the United States	Singapore Airlines	2	14,125	plan this
Guwahati GAU	India	Drukair	2	1,680	plan this
Novosibirsk OVB	Russia	Aeroflot	2	4,856	plan this

The ten destinations out of BKK 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. 33 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BKK

The desk holds the return direction for 107 of the 138 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into BKK runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Beijing (PKX) at 0.86 out a day against 0.14 back, Yangon (RGN) at 11.9 out a day against 4.6 back and Wuhan (WUH) at 1.6 out a day against 0.71 back.

It runs the other way as well: Tokyo (HND) files 8 a day back into BKK against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BKK

BKK keeps Asia/Bangkok time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 12:00 at BKK, 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 BKK until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at BKK

12 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 Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BKK that lands inside it leaves around 14:54, on a modelled block of 6h 06m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BKK that lands inside it leaves around 17:28, on a modelled block of 12h 02m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BKK that lands inside it leaves around 16:39, on a modelled block of 11h 21m. Those three departure times out of BKK 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 BKK turns up on the rest of this site

BKK carries two other pages on this site as well: the Thailand country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the BKK 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 BKK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Bangkok to Phuket (HKT), Bangkok to Chiangmai (CNX) and Bangkok to Hong Kong (HKG).

Five of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Bangkok, Bangkok to Frankfurt and Bangkok to Tokyo. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BKK written out.

Four courier postings name BKK as the airport a courier here flies from: Chon Buri, Lat Krabang and Kabin Buri.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BKK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 138 destinations above.