EDI Edinburgh

How deep the EDI board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from EDI. This reads the same 163 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.

• 103of the 163 destinations are flown by one airline
• 95destinations run less than once a day
• 10destinations have four or more departures a day
• 37.4%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at EDI

66 airlines appear on the EDI board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 61 of the 163 destinations, 37.4 per cent of them, and on 33 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 91.2 of the 217.5 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 easyJet on 45 destinations. 42 of the 66 airlines at EDI 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 EDI: one airline on 37.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 62.6 per cent spread across 65 airlines. A cancellation inside the Ryanair network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 102 destinations Ryanair does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the EDI board is daily

Of the 163 destinations, 68 are flown at least once a day and 95 are not, 17 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the EDI board is flown 5 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: EDI to Zadar (ZAD) 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 55.4 of the 217.5 departures a day, 25.5 per cent of the whole board. With 58.3 per cent of the 163 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
Berne BRN	Switzerland	Vista Georgia	1	1,253	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Jet2	1	3,107	plan this
Clermont-Ferrand/Auvergne CFE	France	Atlantic Airways	1	1,218	plan this
Firenze FLR	Italy	British Airways	1	1,700	plan this
Kalamata KLX	Greece	Jet2	1	2,829	plan this
Kefallinia Island EFL	Greece	Jet2	1	2,657	plan this
Larnarca LCA	Cyprus	Jet2	1	3,646	plan this
London LTN	the United Kingdom	Air Charter Scotland	1	494	the pair page
Milan LIN	Italy	Sirio	1	1,464	plan this
Paris LBG	France	NJU	1	870	plan this

The ten destinations out of EDI 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. 63 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from EDI

The desk holds the return direction for 114 of the 163 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into EDI runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Manchester (MAN) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, Aberdeen (ABZ) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Burgas (BOJ) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 3.6 a day back into EDI against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at EDI

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

The night at EDI

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 (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from EDI that lands inside it leaves around 22:13, on a modelled block of 1h 17m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from EDI that lands inside it leaves around 20:31, on a modelled block of 1h 29m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from EDI that lands inside it leaves around 21:23, on a modelled block of 1h 37m. Those three departure times out of EDI 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 EDI turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 22 airport pair pages that start or end at EDI, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Edinburgh to Dublin (DUB), Edinburgh to London (STN) and Edinburgh to Bristol (BRS).

Five courier postings name EDI as the airport a courier here flies from: Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with EDI already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 163 destinations above.