DUS Dusseldorf

How deep the DUS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DUS. This reads the same 176 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.

• 95of the 176 destinations are flown by one airline
• 94destinations run less than once a day
• 16destinations have four or more departures a day
• 59.1%of the destinations name Eurowings, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DUS

91 airlines appear on the DUS board and they do not hold it evenly. Eurowings is on 104 of the 176 destinations, 59.1 per cent of them, and on 51 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 196.7 of the 290.7 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 Condor on 25 destinations. 63 of the 91 airlines at DUS 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 104 of the 176 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DUS sector is usually another Eurowings 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 DUS than the destination count does.

How much of the DUS board is daily

Of the 176 destinations, 82 are flown at least once a day and 94 are not, 26 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DUS board is flown 6 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: DUS to Treviso (TSF) 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 65.6 of the 290.7 departures a day, 22.6 per cent of the whole board. With 53.4 per cent of the 176 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
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Condor	1	2,686	plan this
Bratislava BTS	Slovakia	Elite Jet	1	826	the pair page
Brno BRQ	Czechia	NetJets Europe	1	745	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	TUI Airlines Belgium	1	165	the pair page
Dortmund DTM	Germany	MUS	1	64	plan this
Dubrovnik DBV	Croatia	Eurowings	1	1,303	plan this
Egelsbach QEF	Germany	Private Wings	1	198	plan this
Erzurum ERZ	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,922	plan this
Genova GOA	Italy	Condor	1	780	plan this
Hatay HTY	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,860	plan this

The ten destinations out of DUS 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. 58 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DUS

The desk holds the return direction for 102 of the 176 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eleven of them the return into DUS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Casablanca (CMN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, Nuremberg (NUE) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Damascus (DAM) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Tirana (TIA) files 0.71 a day back into DUS against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DUS

DUS 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 DUS, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DUS and still make a departure the same day.

The night at DUS

DUS carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Scheduled movements are restricted between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a limited number of late landings allowed. That is a hole of eight hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 22:00 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

14 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 Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from DUS that lands inside it leaves around 20:47, on a modelled block of 1h 13m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from DUS that lands inside it leaves around 23:16, on a modelled block of 1h 14m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DUS that lands inside it leaves around 21:51, on a modelled block of 1h 09m. Those three departure times out of DUS 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 DUS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at DUS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dusseldorf to Palma De Mallorca (PMI), Dusseldorf to Antalya (AYT) and Dusseldorf to Munich (MUC).

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

42 courier postings name DUS as the airport a courier here flies from: Cologne, Düsseldorf and Essen.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DUS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 176 destinations above.