DUB Dublin

How deep the DUB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DUB. This reads the same 198 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.

• 112of the 198 destinations are flown by one airline
• 90destinations run less than once a day
• 34destinations have four or more departures a day
• 58.6%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DUB

73 airlines appear on the DUB board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 116 of the 198 destinations, 58.6 per cent of them, and on 60 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 300.2 of the 462.1 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 Aer Lingus on 89 destinations. 46 of the 73 airlines at DUB 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 116 of the 198 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DUB sector is usually another Ryanair 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 DUB than the destination count does.

How much of the DUB board is daily

Of the 198 destinations, 108 are flown at least once a day and 90 are not, 9 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DUB 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: DUB to Zakynthos Island (ZTH) 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 98.6 of the 462.1 departures a day, 21.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 193 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DUB usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Belfast BHD	the United Kingdom	EAI	1	136	plan this
Dallas DAL	the United States	AOJ	1	7,172	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	London Executive Aviation	1	443	plan this
London STN	the United Kingdom	Ryanair UK	1	471	plan this
Ottawa YOW	Canada	Air Transat	1	4,901	plan this
Paris LBG	France	DFC	1	782	plan this
Reykjavik RKV	Iceland	NetJets Europe	1	1,486	plan this
Tel Aviv Yafo TLV	Israel	VistaJet	1	4,034	the pair page
Zakynthos Island ZTH	Greece	Ryanair	1	2,710	plan this
Alghero AHO	Italy	Ryanair	2	1,793	plan this

The ten destinations out of DUB 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. 69 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DUB

The desk holds the return direction for 132 of the 198 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into DUB runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Shanghai (PVG) at 0.86 out a day against 0.43 back, Cologne (CGN) at 1 out a day against 0.57 back and Istanbul (IST) at 3.3 out a day against 2 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (STN) files 9.6 a day back into DUB against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DUB

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

The night at DUB

16 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 DUB that lands inside it leaves around 22:20, on a modelled block of 1h 10m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DUB that lands inside it leaves around 20:24, on a modelled block of 1h 36m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from DUB that lands inside it leaves around 21:21, on a modelled block of 1h 39m. Those three departure times out of DUB 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 DUB turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at DUB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dublin to Edinburgh (EDI), Dublin to Manchester (MAN) and Dublin to London (LHR).

Three of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Dublin, Dubai to Dublin and Dublin to Boston. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DUB written out.

Ten courier postings name DUB as the airport a courier here flies from: Dublin, Waterford and Drogheda.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DUB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 198 destinations above.