YYC Calgary

How deep the YYC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YYC. This reads the same 105 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.

• 74of the 105 destinations are flown by one airline
• 40destinations run less than once a day
• 20destinations have four or more departures a day
• 78.1%of the destinations name WestJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YYC

34 airlines appear on the YYC board and they do not hold it evenly. WestJet is on 82 of the 105 destinations, 78.1 per cent of them, and on 54 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 302.1 of the 319.5 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 Air Canada on 11 destinations. 15 of the 34 airlines at YYC 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 82 of the 105 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a YYC sector is usually another WestJet 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 YYC than the destination count does.

How much of the YYC board is daily

Of the 105 destinations, 65 are flown at least once a day and 40 are not, 16 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YYC 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: YYC to Teterboro (TEB) 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 119.7 of the 319.5 departures a day, 37.5 per cent of the whole board. The other 100 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at YYC usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bellingham BLI	the United States	Flexjet	1	661	plan this
Bozeman BZN	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	630	plan this
Carlsbad CLD	the United States	AirSprint	1	2,017	plan this
Des Moines DSM	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,882	plan this
Honolulu HNL	the United States	WestJet	1	5,028	plan this
Indianapolis IND	the United States	Sunwest Aviation	1	2,486	the pair page
Kangerlussuaq SFJ	Greenland	Flair Airlines	1	3,807	plan this
Liberia LIR	Costa Rica	WestJet	1	5,195	plan this
Mazatlán MZT	Mexico	WestJet	1	3,179	plan this
Medicine Hat YXH	Canada	CanWest Air	1	263	plan this

The ten destinations out of YYC 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. 26 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YYC

The desk holds the return direction for 51 of the 105 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into YYC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Edmonton (YEG) at 16 out a day against 11.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LHR) files 2.3 a day back into YYC against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at YYC

YYC keeps America/Edmonton time, ten hours behind Dubai in summer and eleven 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 23:00 at YYC, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at YYC

7 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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YYC that lands inside it leaves around 05:26, on a modelled block of 9h 34m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YYC that lands inside it leaves around 05:52, on a modelled block of 9h 08m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from YYC that lands inside it leaves around 07:33, on a modelled block of 8h 57m. Those three departure times out of YYC 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 YYC turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 12 airport pair pages that start or end at YYC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Calgary to Vancouver (YVR), Calgary to Toronto (YYZ) and Calgary to Montreal (YUL).

Six courier postings name YYC as the airport a courier here flies from: Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YYC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 105 destinations above.