LHE Lahore

How deep the LHE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LHE. This reads the same 29 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.

• 16of the 29 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 48.3%of the destinations name Pakistan International Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LHE

25 airlines appear on the LHE board and they do not hold it evenly. Pakistan International Airlines is on 14 of the 29 destinations, 48.3 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 36.6 of the 52.6 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 M/S Fly Jinnah Services Pvt Ltd on 9 destinations. 19 of the 25 airlines at LHE 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 14 of the 29 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LHE sector is usually another Pakistan International 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 LHE than the destination count does.

How much of the LHE board is daily

Of the 29 destinations, 17 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LHE 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: LHE to Manchester (MAN) 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 28.6 of the 52.6 departures a day, 54.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves LHE 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
London LHR	the United Kingdom	Pakistan International Airlines	1	6,315	plan this
Manchester MAN	the United Kingdom	Pakistan International Airlines	1	6,398	plan this
Baghdad BGW	Iraq	Fly Baghdad	2	2,830	plan this
Bishkek BSZ	Kyrgyzstan	Cathay Dragon	2	1,283	plan this
Tashkent TAS	Uzbekistan	Centrum Air	2	1,175	plan this
Tehran IKA	Iran	Mahan Air	2	2,194	plan this
Toronto YYZ	Canada	Pakistan International Airlines	2	11,246	plan this
Baku GYD	Azerbaijan	Pakistan International Airlines	3	2,396	the pair page
Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	Pakistan International Airlines	3	3,477	plan this
Ras Al Khaimah RKT	the United Arab Emirates	Air Arabia	3	1,916	plan this

The ten destinations out of LHE 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. 1 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LHE

The desk holds the return direction for 27 of the 29 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into LHE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Tehran (IKA) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Muscat (MCT) at 1.3 out a day against 0.73 back.

It runs the other way as well: Sharjah (SHJ) files 4.4 a day back into LHE against 2.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LHE

LHE keeps Asia/Karachi time, an hour ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 10:00 at LHE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at LHE and still make a departure the same day.

The night at LHE

1 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 LHE that lands inside it leaves around 19:24, on a modelled block of 8h 06m. Those one departure times out of LHE 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 LHE turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 8 airport pair pages that start or end at LHE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Lahore to Karachi (KHI), Lahore to Jeddah (JED) and Lahore to Dubai (DXB).

Three courier postings name LHE as the airport a courier here flies from: Lahore, Faisalabad and Gujranwala.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LHE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 29 destinations above.