BJL Banjul

How deep the BJL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BJL. This reads the same 11 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 9of the 11 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 27.3%of the destinations name ASKY, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BJL

Nine airlines appear on the BJL board and they do not hold it evenly. ASKY is on 3 of the 11 destinations, 27.3 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 1.6 of the 8.3 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 Brussels Airlines on 2 destinations. 5 of the 9 airlines at BJL 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 BJL: one airline on 27.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 72.7 per cent spread across 8 airlines. A cancellation inside the ASKY network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 8 destinations ASKY does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the BJL board is daily

Of the 11 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BJL board is flown 4 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: BJL to Rome (FCO) 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 6.1 of the 8.3 departures a day, 74.2 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves BJL is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Conakry CKY	Guinea	Brussels Airlines	1	533	plan this
Rome FCO	Italy	Neos	1	4,218	plan this
Barcelona BCN	Spain	Vueling	3	3,600	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	3	5,367	plan this
Lomé LFW	Togo	ASKY	3	2,117	plan this
Freetown FNA	Sierra Leone	ASKY	4	646	plan this

The six destinations out of BJL 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.

The way back from BJL

The desk holds the return direction for 9 of the 11 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into BJL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Istanbul (IST) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back, Lomé (LFW) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Dakar (DSS) at 2.3 out a day against 1.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Nouakchott (NKC) files 0.86 a day back into BJL against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BJL

BJL keeps Africa/Banjul time, four hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 05:00 at BJL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at BJL until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where BJL turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BJL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 11 destinations above.