BCN Barcelona

How deep the BCN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BCN. This reads the same 233 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.

• 126of the 233 destinations are flown by one airline
• 95destinations run less than once a day
• 45destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40.3%of the destinations name Vueling, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BCN

132 airlines appear on the BCN board and they do not hold it evenly. Vueling is on 94 of the 233 destinations, 40.3 per cent of them, and on 37 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 432.7 of the 625.2 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 Ryanair on 60 destinations. 87 of the 132 airlines at BCN 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 BCN: one airline on 40.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 59.7 per cent spread across 131 airlines. A cancellation inside the Vueling network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 139 destinations Vueling does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the BCN board is daily

Of the 233 destinations, 138 are flown at least once a day and 95 are not, 12 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BCN 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: BCN to Vagar (FAE) 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 98.7 of the 625.2 departures a day, 15.8 per cent of the whole board. The other 228 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at BCN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Aswan ASW	Egypt	Nile Air	1	3,435	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	Evelop Airlines	1	8,400	plan this
Comayagua XPL	Honduras	Evelop Airlines	1	8,934	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	FJO	1	1,131	plan this
Funchal FNC	Portugal	Iberia	1	1,922	plan this
Kidlington OXF	the United Kingdom	AOJ	1	1,200	plan this
London NHT	the United Kingdom	FLJ	1	1,156	plan this
Melilla MLN	Spain	Iberia	1	800	plan this
Riyadh RUH	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian Airlines	1	4,475	plan this
Stockholm BMA	Sweden	Gestair	1	2,289	plan this

The ten destinations out of BCN 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. 69 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BCN

The desk holds the return direction for 167 of the 233 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eight of them the return into BCN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Cork (ORK) at 0.57 out a day against 0.14 back, Punta Cana (PUJ) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Roma (CIA) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 7.4 a day back into BCN against 2.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BCN

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

The night at BCN

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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BCN that lands inside it leaves around 20:55, on a modelled block of 2h 05m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BCN that lands inside it leaves around 22:35, on a modelled block of 1h 55m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BCN that lands inside it leaves around 21:06, on a modelled block of 1h 54m. Those three departure times out of BCN 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 BCN turns up on the rest of this site

BCN carries two other pages on this site as well: the Spain country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the BCN 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 BCN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Barcelona to Madrid (MAD), Barcelona to Rome (FCO) and Barcelona to Lisbon (LIS).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Barcelona. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BCN written out.

Nine courier postings name BCN as the airport a courier here flies from: Barcelona, Terrassa and Tarragona.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BCN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 233 destinations above.