JIB Djibouti City

How deep the JIB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from JIB. This reads the same 10 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.

• 8of the 10 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40%of the destinations name AirAsia Japan, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at JIB

Eight airlines appear on the JIB board and they do not hold it evenly. AirAsia Japan is on 4 of the 10 destinations, 40 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 4.7 of the 7.1 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 EgyptAir on 2 destinations. 6 of the 8 airlines at JIB 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 JIB: one airline on 40 per cent of the destinations and the other 60 per cent spread across 7 airlines. A cancellation inside the AirAsia Japan network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 6 destinations AirAsia Japan does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the JIB board is daily

Of the 10 destinations, 2 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the JIB 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: JIB to Paris (CDG) 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 5.4 of the 7.1 departures a day, 76 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves JIB 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
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	1	3,592	plan this
Paris CDG	France	Air France	1	5,592	plan this
Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	flynas	2	1,204	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	4	2,396	plan this
Dubai DXB	the United Arab Emirates	flydubai	4	1,992	plan this
Hargeisa HGA	Somalia	AirAsia Japan	4	247	plan this
Nairobi NBO	Kenya	Kenya Airways	5	1,588	plan this

The seven destinations out of JIB 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 JIB

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 10 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 8 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through JIB is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (IST) files 0.43 a day back into JIB against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at JIB

JIB keeps Africa/Djibouti time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

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

The night at JIB

1 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 JIB that lands inside it leaves around 17:46, on a modelled block of 7h 14m. Those one departure times out of JIB 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 JIB turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with JIB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 10 destinations above.