LIS Lisbon

How deep the LIS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LIS. This reads the same 154 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.

• 79of the 154 destinations are flown by one airline
• 60destinations run less than once a day
• 23destinations have four or more departures a day
• 55.8%of the destinations name TAP Air Portugal, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LIS

66 airlines appear on the LIS board and they do not hold it evenly. TAP Air Portugal is on 86 of the 154 destinations, 55.8 per cent of them, and on 23 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 300.3 of the 367.9 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 36 destinations. 37 of the 66 airlines at LIS 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 86 of the 154 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LIS sector is usually another TAP Air Portugal 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 LIS than the destination count does.

How much of the LIS board is daily

Of the 154 destinations, 94 are flown at least once a day and 60 are not, 9 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LIS 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: LIS to Tunis (TUN) 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 77.3 of the 367.9 departures a day, 21 per cent of the whole board. The other 149 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at LIS usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Alava VIT	Spain	ASL Airlines Belgium	1	706	plan this
Beijing PKX	China	Beijing Capital Airlines	1	9,696	plan this
London LTN	the United Kingdom	PVD	1	1,606	plan this
Milan LIN	Italy	VistaJet	1	1,685	plan this
Monastir MIR	Tunisia	Nouvelair Tunisie	1	1,788	plan this
Montego Bay MBJ	Jamaica	World2fly Portugal	1	6,916	plan this
Samaná AZS	the Dominican Republic	Orbest S.A.	1	6,160	plan this
Souda CHQ	Greece	Aegean Airlines	1	2,955	plan this
Tunis TUN	Tunisia	Tunisair	1	1,711	plan this
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	2	1,110	plan this

The ten destinations out of LIS 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 LIS

The desk holds the return direction for 126 of the 154 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into LIS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Cancún (CUN) at 0.59 out a day against 0.14 back, São Tomé (TMS) at 0.59 out a day against 0.32 back and Istanbul (IST) at 3.3 out a day against 2 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LHR) files 12 a day back into LIS against 4.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LIS

LIS keeps Europe/Lisbon 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 LIS, 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 LIS until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at LIS

17 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 (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from LIS that lands inside it leaves around 20:10, on a modelled block of 2h 20m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LIS that lands inside it leaves around 19:09, on a modelled block of 2h 51m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LIS that lands inside it leaves around 19:07, on a modelled block of 2h 53m. Those three departure times out of LIS 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 LIS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at LIS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Lisbon to Madrid (MAD), Lisbon to Barcelona (BCN) and Lisbon to Paris (ORY).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Lisbon and Lisbon to Sao Paulo. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at LIS written out.

Eight courier postings name LIS as the airport a courier here flies from: Lisbon, Leiria and Setúbal.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LIS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 154 destinations above.