CEB Cebu

How deep the CEB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CEB. This reads the same 36 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.

• 15of the 36 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 44.4%of the destinations name Philippine Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CEB

22 airlines appear on the CEB board and they do not hold it evenly. Philippine Airlines is on 16 of the 36 destinations, 44.4 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 86.5 of the 118.5 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 Cebu Pacific Air on 15 destinations. 16 of the 22 airlines at CEB 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 CEB: one airline on 44.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.6 per cent spread across 21 airlines. A cancellation inside the Philippine Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 20 destinations Philippine Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the CEB board is daily

Of the 36 destinations, 28 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the CEB board is flown about twice a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: CEB to Quanzhou (JJN) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 56.4 of the 118.5 departures a day, 47.6 per cent of the whole board. The other 31 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at CEB usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Cotabato City CBO	the Philippines	Philippine Airlines	2	351	plan this
Quanzhou JJN	China	Xiamen Airlines	2	1,708	plan this
Bangkok DMK	Thailand	Cebu Pacific Air	3	2,571	plan this
Catarman CRM	the Philippines	Philippine Airlines	3	254	plan this
Hanoi HAN	Vietnam	Vietnam Airlines	3	2,289	the pair page
Masbate MBT	the Philippines	Cebgo	3	232	plan this
Shanghai PVG	China	China Eastern Airlines	5	2,327	plan this
Osaka KIX	Japan	Cebu Pacific Air	6	2,916	the pair page

The eight destinations out of CEB 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 CEB

The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 36 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 13 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through CEB is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Osaka (KIX) files 1.3 a day back into CEB against 0.86 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CEB

CEB keeps Asia/Manila time, four hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 13:00 at CEB, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at CEB until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at CEB

1 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 Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from CEB that lands inside it leaves around 17:33, on a modelled block of 4h 27m. Those one departure times out of CEB 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 CEB turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 6 airport pair pages that start or end at CEB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Cebu to Manila (MNL), Cebu to Tokyo (NRT) and Cebu to Taipei (TPE).

One courier posting names CEB as the airport a courier here flies from: Cebu City.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CEB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 36 destinations above.