FRA Frankfurt

How deep the FRA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from FRA. This reads the same 274 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.

• 145of the 274 destinations are flown by one airline
• 96destinations run less than once a day
• 54destinations have four or more departures a day
• 52.9%of the destinations name Lufthansa, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at FRA

118 airlines appear on the FRA board and they do not hold it evenly. Lufthansa is on 145 of the 274 destinations, 52.9 per cent of them, and on 60 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 564.9 of the 731.3 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 61 destinations. 79 of the 118 airlines at FRA 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 145 of the 274 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an FRA sector is usually another Lufthansa 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 FRA than the destination count does.

How much of the FRA board is daily

Of the 274 destinations, 178 are flown at least once a day and 96 are not, 29 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the FRA board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: FRA to Urgench (UGC) 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 78.7 of the 731.3 departures a day, 10.8 per cent of the whole board. The other 269 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at FRA usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Condor	1	2,654	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	VistaJet	1	492	plan this
Biarritz/Anglet/Bayonne BIQ	France	Lufthansa	1	1,057	plan this
Chengdu CTU	China	Air China Cargo	1	7,813	plan this
Diyarbakır DIY	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,841	plan this
Elazığ EZS	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,729	plan this
Figari Sud-Corse FSC	France	Lufthansa	1	949	plan this
Kangerlussuaq SFJ	Greenland	Ethiopian Airlines	1	3,727	plan this
Kassel KSF	Germany	Eurowings Discover	1	165	plan this
Kidlington OXF	the United Kingdom	VLZ	1	719	plan this

The ten destinations out of FRA 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. 72 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from FRA

The desk holds the return direction for 200 of the 274 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 13 of them the return into FRA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Zanzibar (ZNZ) at 1.1 out a day against 0.14 back, Stuttgart (STR) at 0.71 out a day against 0.29 back and Chengdu (TFU) at 1 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Milan (LIN) files 9.7 a day back into FRA against 3.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at FRA

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

The night at FRA

FRA carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning. That is a hole of six hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:00 does not go until 05:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

16 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 FRA that lands inside it leaves around 21:03, on a modelled block of 0h 57m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from FRA that lands inside it leaves around 20:52, on a modelled block of 1h 08m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from FRA that lands inside it leaves around 22:05, on a modelled block of 1h 25m. Those three departure times out of FRA 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 FRA turns up on the rest of this site

FRA 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 FRA transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at FRA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Frankfurt to Munich (MUC), Frankfurt to Berlin (BER) and Frankfurt to Vienna (VIE).

41 of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Frankfurt, Almaty to Frankfurt and Amman to Frankfurt. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at FRA written out.

21 courier postings name FRA as the airport a courier here flies from: Mannheim, Wiesbaden and Kassel.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with FRA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 274 destinations above.