CGN Cologne

How deep the CGN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CGN. This reads the same 154 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.

• 92of the 154 destinations are flown by one airline
• 104destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 44.8%of the destinations name Eurowings, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CGN

71 airlines appear on the CGN board and they do not hold it evenly. Eurowings is on 69 of the 154 destinations, 44.8 per cent of them, and on 33 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 90.6 of the 168.6 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 Ryanair on 32 destinations. 43 of the 71 airlines at CGN 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 CGN: one airline on 44.8 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.2 per cent spread across 70 airlines. A cancellation inside the Eurowings network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 85 destinations Eurowings does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the CGN board is daily

Of the 154 destinations, 50 are flown at least once a day and 104 are not, 30 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the CGN 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: CGN to Yerevan (EVN) 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 47 of the 168.6 departures a day, 27.9 per cent of the whole board. With 67.5 per cent of the 154 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
Baden-Baden FKB	Germany	DigaJet	1	242	plan this
Berne BRN	Switzerland	RIZ	1	440	plan this
Bournemouth BOH	the United Kingdom	Excellent Air	1	631	plan this
Bremen BRE	Germany	UNI	1	267	the pair page
Brindisi BDS	Italy	Eurowings	1	1,408	plan this
Copenhagen CPH	Denmark	Global Jet Luxembourg	1	643	plan this
Dayr az Zawr DEZ	Syria	Atlasglobal	1	3,154	plan this
Diyarbakır DIY	Turkiye	Pegasus	1	2,962	plan this
Edremit EDO	Turkiye	Corendon Air	1	1,990	plan this
Egelsbach QEF	Germany	NetJets Europe	1	147	plan this

The ten destinations out of CGN 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. 76 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from CGN

The desk holds the return direction for 90 of the 154 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into CGN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Seville (SVQ) at 1 out a day against 0.29 back, Istanbul (IST) at 4.3 out a day against 1.7 back and Budapest (BUD) at 1 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Paris (CDG) files 1.4 a day back into CGN against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CGN

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

The night at CGN

13 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 CGN that lands inside it leaves around 20:52, on a modelled block of 1h 08m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from CGN that lands inside it leaves around 20:49, on a modelled block of 1h 11m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from CGN that lands inside it leaves around 21:54, on a modelled block of 1h 36m. Those three departure times out of CGN 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 CGN turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 52 airport pair pages that start or end at CGN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Cologne to Antalya (AYT), Cologne to Palma De Mallorca (PMI) and Cologne to Istanbul (SAW).

32 courier postings name CGN as the airport a courier here flies from: Cologne, Düsseldorf and Essen.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CGN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 154 destinations above.