BEL Belem

How deep the BEL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BEL. This reads the same 22 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.

• 15of the 22 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 63.6%of the destinations name Azul, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BEL

Seven airlines appear on the BEL board and they do not hold it evenly. Azul is on 14 of the 22 destinations, 63.6 per cent of them, and on 10 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 30.9 of the 48.3 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 Gol on 7 destinations. 3 of the 7 airlines at BEL 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 14 of the 22 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BEL sector is usually another Azul aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for BEL, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the BEL board is daily

Of the 22 destinations, 14 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BEL 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: BEL to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 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 25.9 of the 48.3 departures a day, 53.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves BEL 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
Cayenne / Rochambeau CAY	French Guiana	Air France	1	813	plan this
Fort Lauderdale FLL	the United States	Azul	1	4,569	plan this
Miami MIA	the United States	Gol	2	4,562	plan this
Almeirim MEU	Brazil	Azul	3	462	plan this
Bogotá BOG	Colombia	Avianca	3	2,931	the pair page
Tucuruí TUR	Brazil	Azul	3	301	plan this
Lisbon LIS	Portugal	TAP Air Portugal	6	6,006	plan this

The seven destinations out of BEL 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 BEL

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 22 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through BEL is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at BEL

BEL keeps America/Belem time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 02:00 at BEL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for two hours. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for BEL is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

Where BEL turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at BEL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Belem to São Paulo (GRU) and Belem to Bogotá (BOG).

Five courier postings name BEL as the airport a courier here flies from: Belem, Castanhal and Abaetetuba.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BEL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 22 destinations above.