CRL Charleroi

How deep the CRL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CRL. This reads the same 127 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.

• 119of the 127 destinations are flown by one airline
• 84destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 85.8%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CRL

Nine airlines appear on the CRL board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 109 of the 127 destinations, 85.8 per cent of them, and on 102 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 104.9 of the 115.6 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 9 destinations. 3 of the 9 airlines at CRL 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 109 of the 127 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a CRL sector is usually another Ryanair 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 CRL than the destination count does.

How much of the CRL board is daily

Of the 127 destinations, 43 are flown at least once a day and 84 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the CRL 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: CRL to Liège (LGG) 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 16.3 of the 115.6 departures a day, 14.1 per cent of the whole board. With 66.1 per cent of the 127 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
Bâle/Mulhouse BSL	France	Alpine Flightservice	1	390	plan this
Banja Luka BNX	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ryanair	1	1,138	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Alpine Flightservice	1	49	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	Ryanair	1	3,012	plan this
Liège LGG	Belgium	PGC	1	73	plan this
Calvi/Sainte-Catherine CLY	France	Air Corsica	2	942	plan this
Castellón de la Plana CDT	Spain	Ryanair	2	1,189	plan this
Cork ORK	Ireland	Ryanair	2	915	plan this
Fuerteventura Island FUE	Spain	Ryanair	2	2,891	plan this
Kaunas KUN	Lithuania	Ryanair	2	1,408	plan this

The ten destinations out of CRL 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. 73 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from CRL

The desk holds the return direction for 62 of the 127 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 62 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through CRL is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Wrocław (WRO) files 1.3 a day back into CRL against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CRL

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

The night at CRL

4 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 Stockholm (ARN) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from CRL that lands inside it leaves around 19:48, on a modelled block of 2h 12m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from CRL that lands inside it leaves around 21:50, on a modelled block of 1h 40m. Into Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from CRL that lands inside it leaves around 21:56, on a modelled block of 1h 04m. Those three departure times out of CRL 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 CRL turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Belgium 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 CRL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Charleroi to Marseille (MRS), Charleroi to Bologna (BLQ) and Charleroi to Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS).

30 courier postings name CRL as the airport a courier here flies from: Brussels, Ghent and Charleroi.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CRL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 127 destinations above.