HER Heraklion

How deep the HER board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HER. This reads the same 112 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.

• 69of the 112 destinations are flown by one airline
• 74destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 17.9%of the destinations name Aegean Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HER

52 airlines appear on the HER board and they do not hold it evenly. Aegean Airlines is on 20 of the 112 destinations, 17.9 per cent of them, and on 11 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 52 of the 149.8 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 Corendon Airlines Europe on 16 destinations. 25 of the 52 airlines at HER 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.

No airline holds more than 17.9 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 69 of the 112 sectors at HER do not.

How much of the HER board is daily

Of the 112 destinations, 38 are flown at least once a day and 74 are not, 15 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HER board is flown 4 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: HER to Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) 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 39.4 of the 149.8 departures a day, 26.3 per cent of the whole board. With 66.1 per cent of the 112 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
Bournemouth BOH	the United Kingdom	Jet2	1	2,760	plan this
Brașov GHV	Romania	Anima Wings Aviation S.A.	1	1,153	plan this
Brest/Guipavas BES	France	Volotea	1	2,824	plan this
Copenhagen CPH	Denmark	SAS	1	2,448	plan this
Craiova CRA	Romania	Anima Wings Aviation S.A.	1	1,004	plan this
Deauville DOL	France	Aegean Airlines	1	2,561	plan this
Erfurt ERF	Germany	Atlasglobal	1	2,079	plan this
Iaşi IAS	Romania	Anima Wings Aviation S.A.	1	1,332	plan this
Paros Island PAS	Greece	Aegean Airlines	1	187	plan this
Rzeszów RZE	Poland	Corendon Airlines Europe	1	1,662	plan this

The ten destinations out of HER 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. 52 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from HER

The desk holds the return direction for 81 of the 112 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into HER runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Bergamo (BGY) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back and Rodes Island (RHO) at 2.6 out a day against 1.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: Leipzig (LEJ) files 3.6 a day back into HER against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HER

HER keeps Europe/Athens 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 HER, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at HER and still make a departure the same day.

The night at HER

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 Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from HER that lands inside it leaves around 19:34, on a modelled block of 3h 26m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from HER that lands inside it leaves around 20:11, on a modelled block of 2h 49m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HER that lands inside it leaves around 20:48, on a modelled block of 3h 12m. Those three departure times out of HER 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 HER turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 22 airport pair pages that start or end at HER, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Heraklion to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), Heraklion to Düsseldorf (DUS) and Heraklion to Paris (ORY).

Two courier postings name HER as the airport a courier here flies from: Irákleion and Rethymno.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HER already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 112 destinations above.