DRS Dresden

How deep the DRS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DRS. This reads the same 16 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.

• 12of the 16 destinations are flown by one airline
• 11destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 37.5%of the destinations name SundAir, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DRS

14 airlines appear on the DRS board and they do not hold it evenly. SundAir is on 6 of the 16 destinations, 37.5 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 3 of the 13.6 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 Lufthansa on 2 destinations. 11 of the 14 airlines at DRS 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 DRS: one airline on 37.5 per cent of the destinations and the other 62.5 per cent spread across 13 airlines. A cancellation inside the SundAir network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 10 destinations SundAir does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the DRS board is daily

Of the 16 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 11 are not, 6 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DRS board is flown 3 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: DRS to St Helier (JER) 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 10.4 of the 13.6 departures a day, 76.9 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves DRS 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
Berlin BER	Germany	Israir Airlines	1	137	plan this
Burgas BOJ	Bulgaria	SundAir	1	1,410	plan this
Exeter EXT	the United Kingdom	NJU	1	1,202	plan this
Kos Island KGS	Greece	SundAir	1	1,912	plan this
Prague PRG	Czechia	AAO	1	120	plan this
St Helier JER	Jersey	Loganair	1	1,154	plan this
Rodes Island RHO	Greece	SundAir	2	1,993	plan this
Varna VAR	Bulgaria	SundAir	2	1,375	plan this
Düsseldorf DUS	Germany	Eurowings	3	488	plan this
Heraklion HER	Greece	SundAir	4	1,979	plan this

The ten destinations out of DRS 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 DRS

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 16 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through DRS is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Burgas (BOJ) files 0.57 a day back into DRS against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DRS

DRS keeps Europe/Berlin time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at DRS, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DRS and still make a departure the same day.

The night at DRS

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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DRS that lands inside it leaves around 21:56, on a modelled block of 1h 04m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from DRS that lands inside it leaves around 20:00, on a modelled block of 1h 00m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DRS that lands inside it leaves around 21:41, on a modelled block of 1h 19m. Those three departure times out of DRS 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 DRS turns up on the rest of this site

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

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Amsterdam to Dresden and Eindhoven to Dresden. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DRS written out.

17 courier postings name DRS as the airport a courier here flies from: Prague, Liberec and Dresden.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DRS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 16 destinations above.