GCM Grand Cayman

How deep the GCM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GCM. This reads the same 24 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.

• 19of the 24 destinations are flown by one airline
• 17destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 41.7%of the destinations name Cayman Airways, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GCM

17 airlines appear on the GCM board and they do not hold it evenly. Cayman Airways is on 10 of the 24 destinations, 41.7 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 17.4 of the 22.7 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 American Airlines on 3 destinations. 12 of the 17 airlines at GCM 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 GCM: one airline on 41.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.3 per cent spread across 16 airlines. A cancellation inside the Cayman Airways network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 14 destinations Cayman Airways does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the GCM board is daily

Of the 24 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 17 are not, 11 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GCM board is flown 2 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: GCM to Pensacola (PNS) 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 16.3 of the 22.7 departures a day, 71.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves GCM 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
Bangor BGR	the United States	Flexjet	1	3,065	plan this
Bedford BED	the United States	Solarius Aviation	1	2,746	plan this
Boca Raton BCT	the United States	Baker Aviation	1	798	plan this
Dallas-Fort Worth DFW	the United States	American Airlines	1	2,172	plan this
Fort Lauderdale FXE	the United States	Hop-A-Jet Worldwide Jet Charter	1	777	plan this
Houston IAH	the United States	United Airlines	1	1,844	plan this
Los Angeles LAX	the United States	Cayman Airways	1	3,999	plan this
Montego Bay MBJ	Jamaica	Cayman Airways	1	373	plan this
Newark EWR	the United States	United Airlines	1	2,476	plan this
Orlando MCO	the United States	Southwest Airlines	1	1,016	plan this

The ten destinations out of GCM 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. 5 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from GCM

The desk holds the return direction for 14 of the 24 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 14 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through GCM is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Los Angeles (LAX) files 0.29 a day back into GCM against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GCM

GCM keeps America/Cayman time, nine hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at GCM, 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.

Where GCM turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Cayman Islands 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 GCM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 24 destinations above.