EMA Derby and Nottingham

How deep the EMA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from EMA. This reads the same 91 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.

• 52of the 91 destinations are flown by one airline
• 65destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40.7%of the destinations name Jet2, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at EMA

33 airlines appear on the EMA board and they do not hold it evenly. Jet2 is on 37 of the 91 destinations, 40.7 per cent of them, and on 8 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 45.9 of the 74.6 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 Ryanair on 34 destinations. 19 of the 33 airlines at EMA 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 EMA: one airline on 40.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 59.3 per cent spread across 32 airlines. A cancellation inside the Jet2 network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 54 destinations Jet2 does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the EMA board is daily

Of the 91 destinations, 26 are flown at least once a day and 65 are not, 20 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the EMA 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: EMA 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 19.3 of the 74.6 departures a day, 25.9 per cent of the whole board. With 71.4 per cent of the 91 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
Amsterdam AMS	the Netherlands	MNG Airlines	1	416	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Jet2	1	2,829	plan this
Bournemouth BOH	the United Kingdom	HLY	1	231	plan this
Funchal FNC	Portugal	Jet2	1	2,557	the pair page
Glasgow GLA	the United Kingdom	SUZ	1	393	the pair page
Inverness INV	the United Kingdom	NJU	1	551	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	MNG Airlines	1	2,589	plan this
İzmir ADB	Turkiye	Jet2	1	2,715	the pair page
Liverpool LPL	the United Kingdom	EMC	1	116	the pair page
London LHR	the United Kingdom	Pantanal Linhas Aereas	1	162	plan this

The ten destinations out of EMA 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. 40 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from EMA

The desk holds the return direction for 45 of the 91 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into EMA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Manchester (MAN) at 1 out a day against 0.14 back and Heraklion (HER) at 1.3 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Paris (CDG) files 1.3 a day back into EMA against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at EMA

EMA keeps Europe/London 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 EMA, 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 EMA until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at EMA

7 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 EMA that lands inside it leaves around 21:45, on a modelled block of 1h 15m. Into Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from EMA that lands inside it leaves around 20:24, on a modelled block of 1h 36m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from EMA that lands inside it leaves around 19:13, on a modelled block of 1h 47m. Those three departure times out of EMA 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 EMA turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 49 airport pair pages that start or end at EMA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Derby and Nottingham to Palma De Mallorca (PMI), Derby and Nottingham to Alicante (ALC) and Derby and Nottingham to Málaga (AGP).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: London to Derby. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at EMA written out.

24 courier postings name EMA as the airport a courier here flies from: Birmingham, Sheffield and Leicester.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with EMA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 91 destinations above.