BSL Basel

How deep the BSL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BSL. This reads the same 122 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.

• 102of the 122 destinations are flown by one airline
• 82destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 58.2%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BSL

43 airlines appear on the BSL board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 71 of the 122 destinations, 58.2 per cent of them, and on 59 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 78.4 of the 125.1 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 Wizz Air on 13 destinations. 29 of the 43 airlines at BSL 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 71 of the 122 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BSL sector is usually another easyJet 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 BSL than the destination count does.

How much of the BSL board is daily

Of the 122 destinations, 40 are flown at least once a day and 82 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BSL 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: BSL to Podgorica (TGD) 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 31 of the 125.1 departures a day, 24.8 per cent of the whole board. With 67.2 per cent of the 122 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Ankara ESB	Turkiye	Pegasus	1	2,191	plan this
Brussels CRL	Belgium	Alpine Flightservice	1	390	plan this
Calvi/Sainte-Catherine CLY	France	easyJet	1	571	plan this
Constantine CZL	Algeria	ASL Airlines France	1	1,260	plan this
Düsseldorf DUS	Germany	FYL	1	415	the pair page
Geneva GVA	Switzerland	Pan Europeenne Air Service	1	185	plan this
Kayseri ASR	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,453	plan this
Larnarca LCA	Cyprus	easyJet	1	2,581	plan this
Oran ORN	Algeria	ASL Airlines France	1	1,491	plan this
Podgorica TGD	Montenegro	Wizz Air	1	1,088	plan this

The ten destinations out of BSL 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. 66 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BSL

The desk holds the return direction for 84 of the 122 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into BSL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Istanbul (IST) at 2.4 out a day against 0.71 back, Prishtina (PRN) at 10.9 out a day against 6.9 back and Casablanca (CMN) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Hurghada (HRG) files 1 a day back into BSL against 0.45 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BSL

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

The night at BSL

BSL carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Scheduled movements are restricted between 23:00 and 06:00 local under the airport's noise rules. That is a hole of seven hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:00 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

13 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 BSL that lands inside it leaves around 21:40, on a modelled block of 1h 20m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BSL that lands inside it leaves around 22:05, on a modelled block of 0h 55m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from BSL that lands inside it leaves around 22:55, on a modelled block of 1h 05m. Those three departure times out of BSL 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 BSL turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 50 airport pair pages that start or end at BSL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Basel to Palma De Mallorca (PMI), Basel to Antalya (AYT) and Basel to Istanbul (SAW).

22 courier postings name BSL as the airport a courier here flies from: Basel, Bern and Winterthur.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BSL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 122 destinations above.