HAM Hamburg

How deep the HAM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HAM. This reads the same 118 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.

• 65of the 118 destinations are flown by one airline
• 68destinations run less than once a day
• 12destinations have four or more departures a day
• 43.2%of the destinations name Eurowings, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HAM

74 airlines appear on the HAM board and they do not hold it evenly. Eurowings is on 51 of the 118 destinations, 43.2 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 114.2 of the 203.6 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 Marabu Airlines on 11 destinations. 50 of the 74 airlines at HAM 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 HAM: one airline on 43.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 56.8 per cent spread across 73 airlines. A cancellation inside the Eurowings network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 67 destinations Eurowings does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the HAM board is daily

Of the 118 destinations, 50 are flown at least once a day and 68 are not, 14 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HAM 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: HAM to Weeze (NRN) 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 60.9 of the 203.6 departures a day, 29.9 per cent of the whole board. With 57.6 per cent of the 118 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Adana COV	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	2,678	plan this
Berlin BER	Germany	Aer Lingus	1	274	the pair page
Berne BRN	Switzerland	FTY	1	767	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	AJet	1	2,271	plan this
Hamburg XFW	Germany	Airbus Industrie	1	15	plan this
Leeds LBA	the United Kingdom	Silesia Air	1	766	plan this
Leipzig LEJ	Germany	DigaJet	1	288	the pair page
Liverpool LPL	the United Kingdom	PVD	1	849	the pair page
Monastir MIR	Tunisia	Tunisair	1	1,988	plan this
Münster FMO	Germany	Private Wings	1	227	plan this

The ten destinations out of HAM 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. 37 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from HAM

The desk holds the return direction for 87 of the 118 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into HAM runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Bari (BRI) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back, Kerkyra Island (CFU) at 2.7 out a day against 1.6 back and Prishtina (PRN) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Friedrichshafen (FDH) files 0.86 a day back into HAM against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HAM

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

The night at HAM

HAM carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight. That is a hole of seven hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:00 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

15 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 HAM that lands inside it leaves around 20:37, on a modelled block of 1h 23m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HAM that lands inside it leaves around 21:54, on a modelled block of 1h 06m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HAM that lands inside it leaves around 21:29, on a modelled block of 1h 31m. Those three departure times out of HAM 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 HAM turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at HAM, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Hamburg to Munich (MUC), Hamburg to Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) and Hamburg to Palma De Mallorca (PMI).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Hamburg. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at HAM written out.

Ten courier postings name HAM as the airport a courier here flies from: Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HAM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 118 destinations above.