BIO Bilbao

How deep the BIO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BIO. This reads the same 69 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.

• 49of the 69 destinations are flown by one airline
• 39destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 37.7%of the destinations name Vueling, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BIO

34 airlines appear on the BIO board and they do not hold it evenly. Vueling is on 26 of the 69 destinations, 37.7 per cent of them, and on 11 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 53.2 of the 93.3 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 Volotea on 14 destinations. 23 of the 34 airlines at BIO 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 BIO: one airline on 37.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 62.3 per cent spread across 33 airlines. A cancellation inside the Vueling network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 43 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 BIO board is daily

Of the 69 destinations, 30 are flown at least once a day and 39 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BIO 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: BIO to Vigo (VGO) 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 26.1 of the 93.3 departures a day, 28 per cent of the whole board. With 56.5 per cent of the 69 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
Bergamo BGY	Italy	Trade Air	1	1,034	plan this
Espargos SID	Cabo Verde	TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	1	3,507	plan this
Funchal FNC	Portugal	Iberia	1	1,689	plan this
Luxor LXR	Egypt	Air Cairo	1	3,766	plan this
Vigo VGO	Spain	Iberia	1	481	plan this
Bâle/Mulhouse BSL	France	easyJet	2	943	plan this
Bari BRI	Italy	Volotea	2	1,634	plan this
Castellón de la Plana CDT	Spain	Volotea	2	423	plan this
Firenze FLR	Italy	Volotea	2	1,138	plan this
Geneva GVA	Switzerland	easyJet	2	783	plan this

The ten destinations out of BIO 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. 28 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BIO

The desk holds the return direction for 58 of the 69 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into BIO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Istanbul (IST) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back, Marrakech (RAK) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Tangier (TNG) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of BIO turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 3 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at BIO

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

The night at BIO

15 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 BIO that lands inside it leaves around 21:02, on a modelled block of 1h 58m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BIO that lands inside it leaves around 22:51, on a modelled block of 1h 39m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BIO that lands inside it leaves around 21:02, on a modelled block of 1h 58m. Those three departure times out of BIO 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 BIO turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 5 airport pair pages that start or end at BIO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Bilbao to Seville (SVQ), Bilbao to Paris (ORY) and Bilbao to Bristol (BRS).

Nine courier postings name BIO as the airport a courier here flies from: Bilbao, Gasteiz / Vitoria and Pamplona.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BIO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 69 destinations above.