LCY London

How deep the LCY board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LCY. This reads the same 38 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.

• 32of the 38 destinations are flown by one airline
• 21destinations run less than once a day
• 7destinations have four or more departures a day
• 65.8%of the destinations name British Airways, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LCY

18 airlines appear on the LCY board and they do not hold it evenly. British Airways is on 25 of the 38 destinations, 65.8 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 61.1 of the 71 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 Jetfly Aviation on 2 destinations. 15 of the 18 airlines at LCY 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 25 of the 38 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LCY sector is usually another British Airways 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 LCY than the destination count does.

How much of the LCY board is daily

Of the 38 destinations, 17 are flown at least once a day and 21 are not, 11 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LCY 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: LCY to Treviso (TSF) 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 33.4 of the 71 departures a day, 47.1 per cent of the whole board. With 55.3 per cent of the 38 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
Birmingham BHX	the United Kingdom	Sirio	1	162	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	AWH	1	316	plan this
Cologne CGN	Germany	BFD	1	499	plan this
Geneva GVA	Switzerland	ABP	1	734	plan this
Kidlington OXF	the United Kingdom	Jetfly Aviation	1	102	plan this
Paris LBG	France	FJO	1	329	plan this
Split SPU	Croatia	British Airways	1	1,502	plan this
Stockholm BMA	Sweden	RJB	1	1,419	plan this
Thessaloniki SKG	Greece	British Airways	1	2,136	plan this
Toulon/Hyères/Le Palyvestre TLN	France	British Airways	1	1,041	plan this

The ten destinations out of LCY 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. 9 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LCY

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 38 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into LCY runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Glasgow (GLA) at 4 out a day against 0.14 back, Berlin (BER) at 3.6 out a day against 0.14 back and Zurich (ZRH) at 6.1 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Faro (FAO) files 1 a day back into LCY against 0.71 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LCY

LCY 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 LCY, 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 LCY until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at LCY

6 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 LCY that lands inside it leaves around 21:00, on a modelled block of 1h 00m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LCY that lands inside it leaves around 20:23, on a modelled block of 1h 37m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from LCY that lands inside it leaves around 19:19, on a modelled block of 1h 41m. Those three departure times out of LCY 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 LCY 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 LCY, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are London to Glasgow (GLA) and London to Firenze (FLR).

Ten courier postings name LCY as the airport a courier here flies from: Southend-on-Sea, Ipswich and Basildon.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LCY already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 38 destinations above.