JED Jeddah

How deep the JED board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from JED. This reads the same 150 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.

• 89of the 150 destinations are flown by one airline
• 85destinations run less than once a day
• 26destinations have four or more departures a day
• 46.7%of the destinations name Saudi Arabian Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at JED

76 airlines appear on the JED board and they do not hold it evenly. Saudi Arabian Airlines is on 70 of the 150 destinations, 46.7 per cent of them, and on 34 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 327.6 of the 424.7 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 flynas on 27 destinations. 41 of the 76 airlines at JED 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 70 of the 150 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a JED sector is usually another Saudi Arabian Airlines 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 JED than the destination count does.

How much of the JED board is daily

Of the 150 destinations, 65 are flown at least once a day and 85 are not, 28 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the JED board is flown 5 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: JED 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 178.9 of the 424.7 departures a day, 42.1 per cent of the whole board. With 56.7 per cent of the 150 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
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Saudi Arabian Airlines	1	4,911	plan this
Al Bayda' LAQ	Libya	Berniq Airways	1	2,096	plan this
Banda Aceh BTJ	Indonesia	Garuda Indonesia	1	6,303	plan this
Batam Island BTH	Indonesia	Lion Air	1	7,383	plan this
Batna City BLJ	Algeria	flyadeal	1	3,542	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	flyadeal	1	3,773	plan this
Bosaso BSA	Somalia	Daallo Airlines	1	1,571	plan this
Denizli DNZ	Turkiye	Corendon Air	1	2,007	plan this
Dushanbe DYU	Tajikistan	Somon Air	1	3,390	plan this
Fes FEZ	Morocco	Saudi Arabian Airlines	1	4,512	plan this

The ten destinations out of JED 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. 62 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from JED

The desk holds the return direction for 94 of the 150 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 18 of them the return into JED runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Tripoli (MJI) at 3.1 out a day against 0.29 back, Surabaya (SUB) at 1.7 out a day against 0.31 back and Almaty (ALA) at 0.57 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Nairobi (NBO) files 2.1 a day back into JED against 1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at JED

JED keeps Asia/Riyadh time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

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

The night at JED

9 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from JED that lands inside it leaves around 19:10, on a modelled block of 5h 50m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from JED that lands inside it leaves around 19:17, on a modelled block of 6h 13m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from JED that lands inside it leaves around 18:05, on a modelled block of 5h 55m. Those three departure times out of JED 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 JED turns up on the rest of this site

JED carries two other pages on this site as well: the Saudi Arabia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the JED 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 JED, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Jeddah to Riyadh (RUH), Jeddah to Cairo (CAI) and Jeddah to Ad Dammam (DMM).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Jeddah to Istanbul and Sharjah to Jeddah. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at JED written out.

Four courier postings name JED as the airport a courier here flies from: Jeddah, Mecca and Rabigh.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with JED already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 150 destinations above.