LOS Lagos

How deep the LOS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LOS. This reads the same 40 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.

• 27of the 40 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 7destinations have four or more departures a day
• 32.5%of the destinations name Air Peace, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LOS

32 airlines appear on the LOS board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Peace is on 13 of the 40 destinations, 32.5 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 71.9 of the 104.5 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 Business Aviation Asia on 10 destinations. 21 of the 32 airlines at LOS 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 LOS: one airline on 32.5 per cent of the destinations and the other 67.5 per cent spread across 31 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Peace network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 27 destinations Air Peace does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the LOS board is daily

Of the 40 destinations, 28 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LOS 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: LOS to Bridgetown (BGI) 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 54.5 of the 104.5 departures a day, 52.1 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves LOS 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
Bridgetown BGI	Barbados	Air Peace	1	6,905	plan this
Beirut BEY	Lebanon	Middle East Airlines	2	4,484	the pair page
Conakry CKY	Guinea	Air Peace	2	1,893	plan this
Cotonou COO	Benin	Afrijet	3	106	plan this
Douala DLA	Cameroon	Air Peace	4	764	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	South African Airways	4	4,524	the pair page
Kampala EBB	Uganda	Uganda Airlines	5	3,312	plan this
Washington IAD	the United States	United Airlines	5	8,752	the pair page
Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	Lufthansa	6	4,856	plan this
Luanda NBJ	Angola	TAAG	6	2,072	plan this

The ten destinations out of LOS 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. 2 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LOS

The desk holds the return direction for 31 of the 40 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 31 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through LOS is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at LOS

LOS keeps Africa/Lagos time, three hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at LOS, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at LOS until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at LOS

5 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 London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from LOS that lands inside it leaves around 16:58, on a modelled block of 6h 32m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LOS that lands inside it leaves around 15:22, on a modelled block of 6h 38m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from LOS that lands inside it leaves around 17:01, on a modelled block of 6h 29m. Those three departure times out of LOS 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 LOS turns up on the rest of this site

LOS carries two other pages on this site as well: the Nigeria country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the LOS transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 9 airport pair pages that start or end at LOS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Lagos to Abuja (ABV), Lagos to Accra (ACC) and Lagos to Casablanca (CMN).

Three of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Amsterdam to Lagos, Dubai to Lagos and Lagos to Houston. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at LOS written out.

Two courier postings name LOS as the airport a courier here flies from: Lagos and Ibadan.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LOS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 40 destinations above.