BEN Benghazi

How deep the BEN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BEN. 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.

• 4of the 11 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 72.7%of the destinations name BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BEN

Seven airlines appear on the BEN board and they do not hold it evenly. BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS is on 8 of the 11 destinations, 72.7 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 11.2 of the 12.5 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 Buraq Air on 5 destinations. 5 of the 7 airlines at BEN 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 8 of the 11 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BEN sector is usually another BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS 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 BEN, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the BEN board is daily

Of the 11 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BEN board is flown 6 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: BEN to Sabha (SEB) 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 9.4 of the 12.5 departures a day, 75.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves BEN 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
Sabha SEB	Libya	Buraq Air	1	798	plan this
Fort Collins/Loveland FNL	the United States	RTY	2	10,183	plan this
Amman AMM	Jordan	Royal Jordanian	6	1,483	plan this
Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	BERNIQ AIRWAYS dba BERNIQ AIRWAYS	6	2,197	plan this

The four destinations out of BEN 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 BEN

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 11 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into BEN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Alexandria (HBE) at 0.76 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (IST) files 2.4 a day back into BEN against 1.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BEN

BEN keeps Africa/Tripoli time, two hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at BEN, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at BEN and still make a departure the same day.

Where BEN turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Libya 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 BEN 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.