DEN Denver

How deep the DEN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DEN. This reads the same 245 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.

• 89of the 245 destinations are flown by one airline
• 42destinations run less than once a day
• 98destinations have four or more departures a day
• 78%of the destinations name United Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DEN

46 airlines appear on the DEN board and they do not hold it evenly. United Airlines is on 191 of the 245 destinations, 78 per cent of them, and on 45 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 1037 of the 1131.7 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 Southwest Airlines on 87 destinations. 20 of the 46 airlines at DEN 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 191 of the 245 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DEN sector is usually another United Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for DEN, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the DEN board is daily

Of the 245 destinations, 203 are flown at least once a day and 42 are not, 21 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DEN board is flown about twice 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: DEN to Wilmington (ILM) 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 114 of the 1131.7 departures a day, 10.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 240 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DEN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bangor BGR	the United States	United Airlines	1	2,972	plan this
Bishop BIH	the United States	United Airlines	1	1,220	plan this
Branson BKG	the United States	American Airlines	1	1,068	plan this
Cahokia/St Louis CPS	the United States	PlaneSense	1	1,257	plan this
Denver BJC	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	38	plan this
Everett PAE	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,665	plan this
Fort Worth AFW	the United States	FFL	1	1,008	plan this
Grand Island GRI	the United States	Air Wisconsin	1	552	plan this
Greeley GXY	the United States	Denver Air Connection	1	64	plan this
Greensboro GSO	the United States	Frontier Airlines	1	2,201	plan this

The ten destinations out of DEN 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. 26 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DEN

The desk holds the return direction for 79 of the 245 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into DEN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Edmonton (YEG) at 2.3 out a day against 1.4 back and San José del Cabo (SJD) at 1.9 out a day against 1.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (DCA) files 4.4 a day back into DEN against 3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DEN

DEN keeps America/Denver time, ten hours behind Dubai in summer and eleven 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 23:00 at DEN, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at DEN

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 DEN that lands inside it leaves around 06:58, on a modelled block of 9h 32m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DEN that lands inside it leaves around 04:45, on a modelled block of 10h 15m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from DEN that lands inside it leaves around 03:24, on a modelled block of 10h 36m. Those three departure times out of DEN 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 DEN turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 31 airport pair pages that start or end at DEN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Denver to Phoenix (PHX), Denver to Salt Lake City (SLC) and Denver to Los Angeles (LAX).

Eleven courier postings name DEN as the airport a courier here flies from: Denver, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DEN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 245 destinations above.