CTA Catania

How deep the CTA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CTA. This reads the same 96 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.

• 57of the 96 destinations are flown by one airline
• 52destinations run less than once a day
• 10destinations have four or more departures a day
• 41.7%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CTA

52 airlines appear on the CTA board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 40 of the 96 destinations, 41.7 per cent of them, and on 18 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 100.1 of the 152.9 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 Wizz Air Malta on 14 destinations. 35 of the 52 airlines at CTA 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 CTA: one airline on 41.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.3 per cent spread across 51 airlines. A cancellation inside the Ryanair network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 56 destinations Ryanair does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the CTA board is daily

Of the 96 destinations, 44 are flown at least once a day and 52 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the CTA 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: CTA to Porto (OPO) 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 51.3 of the 152.9 departures a day, 33.5 per cent of the whole board. With 54.2 per cent of the 96 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
Houmt El Souk DJE	Tunisia	Neos	1	556	plan this
Leeds LBA	the United Kingdom	Jet2	1	2,227	plan this
Porto OPO	Portugal	Air Horizont	1	2,078	plan this
Belgrade BEG	Serbia	Air Serbia	2	927	plan this
Birmingham BHX	the United Kingdom	Jet2	2	2,117	plan this
Bristol BRS	the United Kingdom	easyJet	2	2,084	plan this
Cluj-Napoca CLJ	Romania	Wizz Air Malta	2	1,255	plan this
Eindhoven EIN	the Netherlands	Ryanair	2	1,731	the pair page
Olbia OLB	Italy	Volotea	2	612	plan this
Oslo OSL	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	2,543	plan this

The ten destinations out of CTA 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. 32 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from CTA

The desk holds the return direction for 73 of the 96 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into CTA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Tunis (TUN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 3.5 a day back into CTA against 1.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CTA

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

The night at CTA

16 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 Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from CTA that lands inside it leaves around 19:55, on a modelled block of 2h 05m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from CTA that lands inside it leaves around 20:56, on a modelled block of 2h 34m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from CTA that lands inside it leaves around 20:36, on a modelled block of 2h 24m. Those three departure times out of CTA 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 CTA turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 14 airport pair pages that start or end at CTA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Catania to Milan (LIN), Catania to Bologna (BLQ) and Catania to Torino (TRN).

Seven courier postings name CTA as the airport a courier here flies from: Catania, Messina and Reggio Calabria.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CTA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 96 destinations above.