DXB Dubai

How deep the DXB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DXB. This reads the same 221 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.

• 154of the 221 destinations are flown by one airline
• 49destinations run less than once a day
• 38destinations have four or more departures a day
• 54.8%of the destinations name Emirates, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DXB

70 airlines appear on the DXB board and they do not hold it evenly. Emirates is on 121 of the 221 destinations, 54.8 per cent of them, and on 80 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 409.4 of the 575.1 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 flydubai on 100 destinations. 44 of the 70 airlines at DXB 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 121 of the 221 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DXB sector is usually another Emirates 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 DXB than the destination count does.

How much of the DXB board is daily

Of the 221 destinations, 172 are flown at least once a day and 49 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DXB 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: DXB to Trabzon (TZX) 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 80.3 of the 575.1 departures a day, 14 per cent of the whole board. The other 216 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DXB usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Batumi BUS	Georgia	flydubai	1	2,216	plan this
Bosaso BSA	Somalia	Daallo Airlines	1	1,686	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	Dubai Air Wing	1	5,516	plan this
Guwahati GAU	India	Air India Express	1	3,619	the pair page
Limerick city SNN	Ireland	Dubai Air Wing	1	6,088	the pair page
Port-Menier YPN	Canada	Air Liaison	1	9,769	plan this
Ramstein RMS	Germany	UNI	1	4,892	plan this
Trabzon TZX	Turkiye	flydubai	1	2,266	plan this
Al Qaysumah AQI	Saudi Arabia	flydubai	2	979	plan this
Al-Jawf AJF	Saudi Arabia	flydubai	2	1,586	plan this

The ten destinations out of DXB 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. 37 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DXB

The desk holds the return direction for 185 of the 221 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eight of them the return into DXB runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Peshawar (PEW) at 1 out a day against 0.36 back, Tripoli (MJI) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Chittagong (CGP) at 2.4 out a day against 1.4 back.

It runs the other way as well: Bergamo (BGY) files 2.4 a day back into DXB against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DXB

DXB keeps Asia/Dubai time, the same clock the desk works to, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here in the same working hour and a cut off quoted from Dubai needs no arithmetic at this end.

The night at DXB

DXB does not close. The note the desk holds for it, checked 2026-09-07, reads: Operates around the clock. The overnight departure bank to Europe leaves between roughly 01:00 and 04:00 local, which is what makes a same day European delivery possible.

15 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 (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from DXB that lands inside it leaves around 19:24, on a modelled block of 7h 06m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from DXB that lands inside it leaves around 19:11, on a modelled block of 6h 49m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DXB that lands inside it leaves around 18:16, on a modelled block of 6h 44m. Those three departure times out of DXB 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 DXB turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 79 airport pair pages that start or end at DXB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dubai to Riyadh (RUH), Dubai to Jeddah (JED) and Dubai to Manama (BAH).

85 of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Accra, Dubai to Addis Ababa and Dubai to Almaty. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DXB written out.

Four courier postings name DXB as the airport a courier here flies from: Sharjah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DXB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 221 destinations above.