LBA Leeds

How deep the LBA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LBA. This reads the same 78 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.

• 59of the 78 destinations are flown by one airline
• 58destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.7%of the destinations name Jet2, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LBA

26 airlines appear on the LBA board and they do not hold it evenly. Jet2 is on 45 of the 78 destinations, 57.7 per cent of them, and on 30 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 46.9 of the 74.8 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 Ryanair on 24 destinations. 16 of the 26 airlines at LBA 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 45 of the 78 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LBA sector is usually another Jet2 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 LBA than the destination count does.

How much of the LBA board is daily

Of the 78 destinations, 20 are flown at least once a day and 58 are not, 19 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LBA board is flown 3 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: LBA to Zadar (ZAD) 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 30 of the 74.8 departures a day, 40.1 per cent of the whole board. With 74.4 per cent of the 78 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
Bergerac/Roumanière EGC	France	Jet2	1	1,017	plan this
Berlin BER	Germany	VJH	1	1,023	plan this
Berne BRN	Switzerland	NetJets Europe	1	1,008	plan this
Bremen BRE	Germany	AWH	1	697	plan this
Copenhagen RKE	Denmark	PVD	1	904	plan this
Geneva GVA	Switzerland	STQ	1	1,012	plan this
Inverness INV	the United Kingdom	Pantanal Linhas Aereas	1	435	plan this
Kidlington OXF	the United Kingdom	PVD	1	227	plan this
London LGW	the United Kingdom	2Excel Aviation	1	318	plan this
London LTN	the United Kingdom	London Executive Aviation	1	238	plan this

The ten destinations out of LBA 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. 43 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LBA

The desk holds the return direction for 42 of the 78 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into LBA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Kerkyra Island (CFU) at 1 out a day against 0.73 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 0.43 a day back into LBA against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LBA

LBA keeps Europe/London time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four 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 06:00 at LBA, 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 LBA until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at LBA

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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LBA that lands inside it leaves around 20:49, on a modelled block of 1h 11m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from LBA that lands inside it leaves around 21:36, on a modelled block of 1h 24m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from LBA that lands inside it leaves around 19:12, on a modelled block of 1h 48m. Those three departure times out of LBA 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 LBA turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at LBA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Leeds to Bratislava (BTS) and Leeds to Nottingham (EMA).

19 courier postings name LBA as the airport a courier here flies from: Sheffield, Leeds and Kingston upon Hull.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LBA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 78 destinations above.