LEJ Leipzig

How deep the LEJ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LEJ. This reads the same 85 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.

• 60of the 85 destinations are flown by one airline
• 64destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 60%of the destinations name EAT Leipzig, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LEJ

34 airlines appear on the LEJ board and they do not hold it evenly. EAT Leipzig is on 51 of the 85 destinations, 60 per cent of them, and on 42 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 43.1 of the 76.3 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 Marabu Airlines on 11 destinations. 21 of the 34 airlines at LEJ 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 51 of the 85 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LEJ sector is usually another EAT Leipzig 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 LEJ than the destination count does.

How much of the LEJ board is daily

Of the 85 destinations, 21 are flown at least once a day and 64 are not, 18 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LEJ 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: LEJ to Zagreb (ZAG) 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 21.2 of the 76.3 departures a day, 27.7 per cent of the whole board. With 75.3 per cent of the 85 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
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	AJet	1	1,989	plan this
Brno BRQ	Czechia	TIE	1	405	plan this
Friedrichshafen FDH	Germany	Avanti Air	1	462	plan this
Jönköping JKG	Sweden	airBaltic	1	713	plan this
Liège LGG	Belgium	EAT Leipzig	1	483	plan this
London LHR	the United Kingdom	EAT Leipzig	1	879	plan this
Monastir MIR	Tunisia	Nouvelair Tunisie	1	1,747	plan this
Montichiari VBS	Italy	EAT Leipzig	1	682	plan this
Münster FMO	Germany	KLM	1	323	plan this
Odense ODE	Denmark	airBaltic	1	467	plan this

The ten destinations out of LEJ 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. 44 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LEJ

The desk holds the return direction for 52 of the 85 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 13 of them the return into LEJ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Budapest (BUD) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, Ljubljana (LJU) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back and Heraklion (HER) at 3.6 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LHR) files 0.86 a day back into LEJ against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LEJ

LEJ keeps Europe/Berlin time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at LEJ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at LEJ and still make a departure the same day.

The night at LEJ

11 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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LEJ that lands inside it leaves around 22:03, on a modelled block of 0h 57m. Into Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LEJ that lands inside it leaves around 21:42, on a modelled block of 1h 18m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from LEJ that lands inside it leaves around 22:25, on a modelled block of 1h 35m. Those three departure times out of LEJ 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 LEJ turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 36 airport pair pages that start or end at LEJ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Leipzig to Palma De Mallorca (PMI), Leipzig to Antalya (AYT) and Leipzig to Heraklion (HER).

16 courier postings name LEJ as the airport a courier here flies from: Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LEJ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 85 destinations above.