CPH Copenhagen

How deep the CPH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CPH. This reads the same 190 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.

• 101of the 190 destinations are flown by one airline
• 83destinations run less than once a day
• 42destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.4%of the destinations name SAS, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CPH

85 airlines appear on the CPH board and they do not hold it evenly. SAS is on 109 of the 190 destinations, 57.4 per cent of them, and on 36 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 389.4 of the 470.6 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 Norwegian Air Shuttle on 60 destinations. 58 of the 85 airlines at CPH 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 190 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a CPH sector is usually another SAS 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 CPH than the destination count does.

How much of the CPH board is daily

Of the 190 destinations, 107 are flown at least once a day and 83 are not, 24 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the CPH 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: CPH to Varna (VAR) 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 84 of the 470.6 departures a day, 17.9 per cent of the whole board. The other 185 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at CPH usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Ankara ESB	Turkiye	Pegasus	1	2,278	plan this
Bastia/Poretta BIA	France	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	1,471	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Freebird Airlines	1	2,333	plan this
Burgas BOJ	Bulgaria	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	1,802	plan this
Cologne CGN	Germany	UNI	1	643	plan this
Copenhagen RKE	Denmark	FJO	1	33	plan this
Eagle EGE	the United States	Air Alsie	1	7,987	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	Jet Concierge Club	1	1,010	plan this
Fuerteventura Island FUE	Spain	Atlantic Airways	1	3,684	plan this
Ioannina IOA	Greece	SAS	1	1,870	plan this

The ten destinations out of CPH 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. 55 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from CPH

The desk holds the return direction for 138 of the 190 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into CPH runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Heraklion (HER) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, Arbil (EBL) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Jebel Ali (DWC) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Tirana (TIA) files 0.57 a day back into CPH against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CPH

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

The night at CPH

17 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 CPH that lands inside it leaves around 20:42, on a modelled block of 1h 18m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from CPH that lands inside it leaves around 21:34, on a modelled block of 1h 26m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from CPH that lands inside it leaves around 22:13, on a modelled block of 1h 47m. Those three departure times out of CPH 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 CPH turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at CPH, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Copenhagen to Oslo (OSL), Copenhagen to Stockholm (ARN) and Copenhagen to Amsterdam (AMS).

Three of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Copenhagen to Boston, Copenhagen to Shanghai and Dubai to Copenhagen. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at CPH written out.

Twelve courier postings name CPH as the airport a courier here flies from: Copenhagen, Odense and Malmo.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CPH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 190 destinations above.