BFS Belfast

How deep the BFS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BFS. This reads the same 47 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.

• 25of the 47 destinations are flown by one airline
• 29destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 72.3%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BFS

Seven airlines appear on the BFS board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 34 of the 47 destinations, 72.3 per cent of them, and on 15 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 66.4 of the 74.9 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 Jet2 on 20 destinations. 1 of the 7 airlines at BFS appears on a single destination, 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 34 of the 47 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BFS 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 BFS than the destination count does.

How much of the BFS board is daily

Of the 47 destinations, 18 are flown at least once a day and 29 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BFS board is flown 5 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: BFS to Zakynthos Island (ZTH) 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 of the 74.9 departures a day, 33.4 per cent of the whole board. With 61.7 per cent of the 47 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
Dubrovnik DBV	Croatia	Jet2	1	2,228	plan this
Exeter EXT	the United Kingdom	Antrak Air	1	475	plan this
Paphos PFO	Cyprus	Jet2	1	3,705	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Jet2	1	1,591	plan this
Zakynthos Island ZTH	Greece	Jet2	1	2,776	plan this
Beauvais/Tillé BVA	France	Ryanair UK	2	811	plan this
Enfidha NBE	Tunisia	easyJet	2	2,428	plan this
Hurghada HRG	Egypt	easyJet	2	4,441	plan this
Porto OPO	Portugal	Ryanair	2	1,502	plan this
Prague PRG	Czechia	easyJet	2	1,473	plan this

The ten destinations out of BFS 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. 7 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BFS

The desk holds the return direction for 33 of the 47 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into BFS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Hurghada (HRG) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Heraklion (HER) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (STN) files 6.7 a day back into BFS against 2.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BFS

BFS keeps Europe/London time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four 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 06:00 at BFS, 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 BFS until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at BFS

2 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from BFS that lands inside it leaves around 21:23, on a modelled block of 1h 37m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BFS that lands inside it leaves around 20:22, on a modelled block of 1h 38m. Those two departure times out of BFS 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 BFS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 6 airport pair pages that start or end at BFS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Belfast to Liverpool (LPL), Belfast to Glasgow (GLA) and Belfast to Birmingham (BHX).

Two courier postings name BFS as the airport a courier here flies from: Belfast and Derry.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BFS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 47 destinations above.