DSS Dakar

How deep the DSS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DSS. This reads the same 35 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.

• 27of the 35 destinations are flown by one airline
• 21destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 25.7%of the destinations name Air Senegal, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DSS

27 airlines appear on the DSS board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Senegal is on 9 of the 35 destinations, 25.7 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 19.9 of the 37 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 ASKY on 5 destinations. 17 of the 27 airlines at DSS 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 DSS: one airline on 25.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 74.3 per cent spread across 26 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Senegal network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 26 destinations Air Senegal does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the DSS board is daily

Of the 35 destinations, 14 are flown at least once a day and 21 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DSS 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: DSS to Verona (VRN) 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 14.9 of the 37 departures a day, 40.2 per cent of the whole board. With 60 per cent of the 35 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	Turkish Airlines	1	4,305	plan this
Bilbao BIO	Spain	Evelop Airlines	1	3,457	plan this
Bordeaux/Mérignac BOD	France	Transavia France	1	3,690	plan this
Nairobi NBO	Kenya	Air Atlanta Icelandic	1	6,200	plan this
Ouagadougou OUA	Burkina Faso	ASKY	1	1,701	plan this
Toulouse-Blagnac TLS	France	Transavia France	1	3,665	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Neos	1	4,304	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	Neos	2	4,260	plan this
Nantes NTE	France	Transavia France	2	3,885	plan this
Bissau OXB	Guinea-Bissau	ASKY	3	345	plan this

The ten destinations out of DSS 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. 11 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DSS

The desk holds the return direction for 29 of the 35 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into DSS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Espargos (SID) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back and Montreal (YUL) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Conakry (CKY) files 3.9 a day back into DSS against 2.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DSS

DSS keeps Africa/Dakar time, four hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 05:00 at DSS, 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 DSS until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at DSS

3 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from DSS that lands inside it leaves around 16:25, on a modelled block of 5h 35m. Into Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DSS that lands inside it leaves around 15:07, on a modelled block of 5h 53m. Into Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DSS that lands inside it leaves around 15:19, on a modelled block of 5h 41m. Those three departure times out of DSS 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 DSS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 1 airport pair page that start or end at DSS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dakar to Dubai (DXB).

One courier posting names DSS as the airport a courier here flies from: Dakar.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DSS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 35 destinations above.