LBV Libreville

How deep the LBV board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LBV. This reads the same 20 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.

• 14of the 20 destinations are flown by one airline
• 11destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 75%of the destinations name Afrijet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LBV

Ten airlines appear on the LBV board and they do not hold it evenly. Afrijet is on 15 of the 20 destinations, 75 per cent of them, and on 9 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 19.1 of the 22.6 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 ASKY on 3 destinations. 4 of the 10 airlines at LBV 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 15 of the 20 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LBV sector is usually another Afrijet 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 LBV than the destination count does.

How much of the LBV board is daily

Of the 20 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 11 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LBV board is flown 6 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: LBV to Kinshasa (FIH) 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 12.7 of the 22.6 departures a day, 56.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves LBV 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
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	4,079	plan this
Kinshasa FIH	the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrijet	1	860	plan this
Bangui BGF	the Central African Republic	Afrijet	2	1,102	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	Afrijet	2	3,582	plan this
Addis Ababa ADD	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines	3	3,388	plan this
Malabo SSG	Equatorial Guinea	Afrijet	3	375	plan this
Casablanca CMN	Morocco	Royal Air Maroc	4	4,067	plan this
Port Harcourt PHC	Nigeria	Afrijet	5	576	plan this
Oyem OYE	Gabon	Afrijet	6	270	plan this
Pointe Noire PNR	the Republic of the Congo	Afrijet	6	648	plan this

The ten destinations out of LBV 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.

The way back from LBV

The desk holds the return direction for 18 of the 20 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into LBV runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Malabo (SSG) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, Yaoundé (NSI) at 1.1 out a day against 0.57 back and Pointe Noire (PNR) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Addis Ababa (ADD) files 0.71 a day back into LBV against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LBV

LBV keeps Africa/Libreville time, three hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at LBV, 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 LBV until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at LBV

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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from LBV that lands inside it leaves around 15:57, on a modelled block of 7h 03m. Those one departure times out of LBV 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 LBV turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LBV already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 20 destinations above.