DBB El Alamein

How deep the DBB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DBB. This reads the same 11 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 9of the 11 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 27.3%of the destinations name EgyptAir, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DBB

Ten airlines appear on the DBB board and they do not hold it evenly. EgyptAir is on 3 of the 11 destinations, 27.3 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 1 of the 4.1 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 Saudi Arabian Airlines on 2 destinations. 8 of the 10 airlines at DBB 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 DBB: one airline on 27.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 72.7 per cent spread across 9 airlines. A cancellation inside the EgyptAir network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 8 destinations EgyptAir does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the DBB board is daily

Of the 11 destinations, 1 is flown at least once a day and 10 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DBB board is flown about once 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: DBB to Yerevan (EVN) 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 3.3 of the 4.1 departures a day, 79.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves DBB 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
Abu Dhabi AUH	the United Arab Emirates	Etihad Airways	1	2,671	plan this
Beirut BEY	Lebanon	Middle East Airlines	1	734	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	1	296	plan this
Manama BAH	Bahrain	Gulf Air	1	2,222	plan this
Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	EgyptAir	1	1,313	plan this
Warsaw WAW	Poland	Smartwings Poland	1	2,440	plan this
Yerevan EVN	Armenia	FlyOne Armenia	1	1,765	plan this
Prague PRG	Czechia	SmartWings	2	2,438	plan this
Dubai DXB	the United Arab Emirates	flydubai	5	2,706	plan this

The nine destinations out of DBB 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.

The way back from DBB

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 11 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through DBB is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Prague (PRG) files 0.86 a day back into DBB against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DBB

DBB keeps Africa/Cairo time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two 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 08:00 at DBB, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DBB and still make a departure the same day.

Where DBB turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DBB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 11 destinations above.