DAM Damascus

How deep the DAM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DAM. This reads the same 19 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.

• 10of the 19 destinations are flown by one airline
• 9destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.9%of the destinations name Syrian Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DAM

17 airlines appear on the DAM board and they do not hold it evenly. Syrian Air is on 11 of the 19 destinations, 57.9 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 26.7 of the 33.8 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 FYC on 4 destinations. 12 of the 17 airlines at DAM 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 11 of the 19 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DAM sector is usually another Syrian Air 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 DAM than the destination count does.

How much of the DAM board is daily

Of the 19 destinations, 10 are flown at least once a day and 9 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DAM 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: DAM to Muscat (MCT) 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 20.4 of the 33.8 departures a day, 60.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves DAM is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	Syrian Air	1	1,032	plan this
Muscat MCT	Oman	FYC	1	2,384	plan this
Arbil EBL	Iraq	FYC	2	749	plan this
Düsseldorf DUS	Germany	Atlasglobal	2	3,114	plan this
Moscow SVO	Russia	Syrian Air	2	2,510	plan this
Ad Dammam DMM	Saudi Arabia	flynas	3	1,492	plan this
Amsterdam AMS	the Netherlands	Syrian Air	3	3,289	plan this
Ankara ESB	Turkiye	AJet	4	810	plan this

The eight destinations out of DAM 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.

The way back from DAM

The desk holds the return direction for 17 of the 19 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into DAM runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Bucharest (OTP) at 0.86 out a day against 0.43 back.

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

The clock at DAM

DAM keeps Asia/Damascus time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at DAM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DAM and still make a departure the same day.

The night at DAM

2 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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DAM that lands inside it leaves around 19:32, on a modelled block of 4h 28m. Into Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from DAM that lands inside it leaves around 18:45, on a modelled block of 4h 15m. Those two departure times out of DAM 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 DAM turns up on the rest of this site

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DAM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 19 destinations above.