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How deep the ORK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ORK. This reads the same 39 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.

• 32of the 39 destinations are flown by one airline
• 28destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 69.2%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ORK

Eight airlines appear on the ORK board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 27 of the 39 destinations, 69.2 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 19.9 of the 31.2 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 Aer Lingus on 12 destinations. 5 of the 8 airlines at ORK 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 27 of the 39 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ORK 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 ORK than the destination count does.

How much of the ORK board is daily

Of the 39 destinations, 11 are flown at least once a day and 28 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ORK board is flown 3 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: ORK to Pisa (PSA) 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 12.8 of the 31.2 departures a day, 41.2 per cent of the whole board. With 71.8 per cent of the 39 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
Barcelona BCN	Spain	Ryanair	1	1,421	plan this
Fuerteventura Island FUE	Spain	Ryanair	1	2,639	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	Ryanair	1	2,720	plan this
Pisa PSA	Italy	Ryanair	1	1,670	plan this
Alghero AHO	Italy	Ryanair	2	1,786	plan this
Beauvais/Tillé BVA	France	Ryanair	2	792	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	Ryanair	2	1,494	plan this
Birmingham BHX	the United Kingdom	Ryanair	2	465	the pair page
Bordeaux/Mérignac BOD	France	Aer Lingus	2	968	plan this
Brussels CRL	Belgium	Ryanair	2	915	plan this

The ten destinations out of ORK 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. 16 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ORK

The desk holds the return direction for 30 of the 39 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 30 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through ORK is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Bristol (BRS) files 2.6 a day back into ORK against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ORK

ORK keeps Europe/Dublin time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four 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 06:00 at ORK, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at ORK until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at ORK

5 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 London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ORK that lands inside it leaves around 22:11, on a modelled block of 1h 19m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ORK that lands inside it leaves around 20:21, on a modelled block of 1h 39m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from ORK that lands inside it leaves around 21:25, on a modelled block of 1h 35m. Those three departure times out of ORK 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 ORK turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 10 airport pair pages that start or end at ORK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Cork to London (STN), Cork to Málaga (AGP) and Cork to Faro (FAO).

Five courier postings name ORK as the airport a courier here flies from: Cork, Limerick and Waterford.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ORK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 39 destinations above.