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How deep the EBL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from EBL. This reads the same 20 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.

• 15of the 20 destinations are flown by one airline
• 15destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 45%of the destinations name FlexFlight, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at EBL

Twelve airlines appear on the EBL board and they do not hold it evenly. FlexFlight is on 9 of the 20 destinations, 45 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 8.4 of the 18 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 UR Airlines on 7 destinations. 9 of the 12 airlines at EBL 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 9 of the 20 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an EBL sector is usually another FlexFlight 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 EBL than the destination count does.

How much of the EBL board is daily

Of the 20 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 15 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the EBL board is flown 3 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: EBL to Rijeka (RJK) 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 12.6 of the 18 departures a day, 70 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves EBL 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
Berlin BER	Germany	UR Airlines	1	2,979	plan this
Copenhagen CPH	Denmark	FlexFlight	1	3,193	plan this
London LGW	the United Kingdom	UR Airlines	1	3,845	plan this
Munich MUC	Germany	FlexFlight	1	2,940	plan this
Rijeka RJK	Croatia	FlexFlight	1	2,652	plan this
Stuttgart STR	Germany	FlexFlight	2	3,132	plan this
Tehran IKA	Iran	Mahan Air	2	654	plan this
Antalya AYT	Turkiye	Pegasus	3	1,177	plan this
Beirut BEY	Lebanon	Middle East Airlines	4	817	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	4	1,350	plan this

The ten destinations out of EBL 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. 1 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from EBL

The desk holds the return direction for 19 of the 20 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into EBL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Hanover (HAJ) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Düsseldorf (DUS) files 1.1 a day back into EBL against 0.67 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at EBL

EBL keeps Asia/Baghdad time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at EBL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at EBL and still make a departure the same day.

The night at EBL

6 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 Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from EBL that lands inside it leaves around 18:26, on a modelled block of 4h 34m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from EBL that lands inside it leaves around 19:38, on a modelled block of 4h 22m. Into Stuttgart (STR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from EBL that lands inside it leaves around 20:14, on a modelled block of 4h 16m. Those three departure times out of EBL 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 EBL turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Iraq 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 EBL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 20 destinations above.