YEG Edmonton

How deep the YEG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YEG. This reads the same 47 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.

• 35of the 47 destinations are flown by one airline
• 26destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 53.2%of the destinations name WestJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YEG

19 airlines appear on the YEG board and they do not hold it evenly. WestJet is on 25 of the 47 destinations, 53.2 per cent of them, and on 15 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 67.6 of the 85.9 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 Flair Airlines on 7 destinations. 6 of the 19 airlines at YEG 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 25 of the 47 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a YEG sector is usually another WestJet 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 YEG than the destination count does.

How much of the YEG board is daily

Of the 47 destinations, 21 are flown at least once a day and 26 are not, 6 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YEG 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: YEG to Williston (XWA) 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 47.1 of the 85.9 departures a day, 54.9 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves YEG 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
Charleston CRW	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	2,944	plan this
Chicago ORD	the United States	United Airlines	1	2,280	plan this
Cincinnati CVG	the United States	TCN	1	2,703	plan this
Moncton YQM	Canada	WestJet	1	3,532	plan this
Salt Lake City SLC	the United States	WestJet	1	1,398	plan this
Williston XWA	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	889	plan this
Fort Chipewyan YPY	Canada	Air Tindi	2	626	plan this
Fort Smith YSM	Canada	Air Tindi	2	753	plan this
Portland PDX	the United States	PRE	2	1,076	plan this
Suncor Energy Site YFI	Canada	WestJet	2	471	plan this

The ten destinations out of YEG 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. 15 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YEG

The desk holds the return direction for 18 of the 47 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 18 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through YEG is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Vancouver (YVR) files 24.9 a day back into YEG against 15.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at YEG

YEG keeps America/Edmonton time, ten hours behind Dubai in summer and eleven 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 23:00 at YEG, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at YEG

1 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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YEG that lands inside it leaves around 06:07, on a modelled block of 8h 53m. Those one departure times out of YEG 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 YEG turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 1 airport pair page that start or end at YEG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Edmonton to Vancouver (YVR).

Six courier postings name YEG as the airport a courier here flies from: Edmonton, Red Deer and Airdrie.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YEG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 47 destinations above.