BHX Birmingham

How deep the BHX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BHX. This reads the same 139 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.

• 79of the 139 destinations are flown by one airline
• 83destinations run less than once a day
• 10destinations have four or more departures a day
• 44.6%of the destinations name Jet2, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BHX

46 airlines appear on the BHX board and they do not hold it evenly. Jet2 is on 62 of the 139 destinations, 44.6 per cent of them, and on 19 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 94.7 of the 187.8 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 Ryanair on 47 destinations. 32 of the 46 airlines at BHX 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 BHX: one airline on 44.6 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.4 per cent spread across 45 airlines. A cancellation inside the Jet2 network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 77 destinations Jet2 does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the BHX board is daily

Of the 139 destinations, 56 are flown at least once a day and 83 are not, 15 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BHX 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: BHX to Vienna (VIE) 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 44.6 of the 187.8 departures a day, 23.7 per cent of the whole board. With 59.7 per cent of the 139 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
Cologne CGN	Germany	UNI	1	638	the pair page
Derry City LDY	the United Kingdom	easyJet	1	458	plan this
Košice KSC	Slovakia	TCA	1	1,670	plan this
Liège LGG	Belgium	CVK	1	536	plan this
London LHR	the United Kingdom	British Airways	1	140	plan this
Lyon LYS	France	Silver Cloud Air	1	898	the pair page
Mytilene MJT	Greece	Jet2	1	2,629	plan this
Newcastle upon Tyne NCL	the United Kingdom	easyJet	1	287	the pair page
Newquay NQY	the United Kingdom	Jet2	1	317	plan this
Palermo PMO	Italy	Jet2	1	1,958	plan this

The ten destinations out of BHX 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. 54 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BHX

The desk holds the return direction for 78 of the 139 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 13 of them the return into BHX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are London (LTN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, Hurghada (HRG) at 0.71 out a day against 0.29 back and Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) at 1 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Seville (SVQ) files 0.86 a day back into BHX against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BHX

BHX 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 BHX, 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 BHX until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at BHX

12 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 BHX that lands inside it leaves around 20:51, on a modelled block of 1h 09m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from BHX that lands inside it leaves around 21:47, on a modelled block of 1h 13m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BHX that lands inside it leaves around 20:22, on a modelled block of 1h 38m. Those three departure times out of BHX 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 BHX turns up on the rest of this site

BHX carries two other pages on this site as well: the United Kingdom country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the BHX transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at BHX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Birmingham to Dublin (DUB), Birmingham to Palma De Mallorca (PMI) and Birmingham to Alicante (ALC).

24 courier postings name BHX as the airport a courier here flies from: Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BHX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 139 destinations above.