LGW London

How deep the LGW board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LGW. This reads the same 203 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.

• 118of the 203 destinations are flown by one airline
• 74destinations run less than once a day
• 48destinations have four or more departures a day
• 50.7%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LGW

75 airlines appear on the LGW board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 103 of the 203 destinations, 50.7 per cent of them, and on 38 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 381.6 of the 510.1 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 British Airways on 51 destinations. 49 of the 75 airlines at LGW 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 103 of the 203 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LGW sector is usually another easyJet 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 LGW than the destination count does.

How much of the LGW board is daily

Of the 203 destinations, 129 are flown at least once a day and 74 are not, 14 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LGW 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: LGW to Tromsø (TOS) 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 74.8 of the 510.1 departures a day, 14.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 198 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at LGW usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abuja ABV	Nigeria	Air Peace	1	4,735	plan this
Arbil EBL	Iraq	UR Airlines	1	3,845	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	FCA	1	3,498	plan this
Dallas-Fort Worth DFW	the United States	American Airlines	1	7,660	plan this
Jerez de la Forntera XRY	Spain	TUI Airways	1	1,668	plan this
Limnos Island LXS	Greece	Enter Air	1	2,323	plan this
Manchester MAN	the United Kingdom	2Excel Aviation	1	283	plan this
Mytilene MJT	Greece	Enter Air	1	2,474	plan this
Ohrid OHD	North Macedonia	TUI Airways	1	1,945	plan this
Paris LBG	France	SHJ	1	307	plan this

The ten destinations out of LGW 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. 52 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from LGW

The desk holds the return direction for 118 of the 203 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 30 of them the return into LGW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Paris (CDG) at 5.9 out a day against 0.29 back, Split (SPU) at 4 out a day against 0.29 back and Alicante (ALC) at 12.3 out a day against 3.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: Kraków (KRK) files 2.9 a day back into LGW against 2.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LGW

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

The night at LGW

LGW carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Night movements are capped between 23:30 and 06:00 local under a seasonal quota. That is a hole of six and a half hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:30 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

12 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 LGW that lands inside it leaves around 22:03, on a modelled block of 0h 57m. Into Geneva (GVA) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from LGW that lands inside it leaves around 21:27, on a modelled block of 1h 33m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LGW that lands inside it leaves around 20:58, on a modelled block of 1h 02m. Those three departure times out of LGW 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 LGW turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 32 airport pair pages that start or end at LGW, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are London to Málaga (AGP), London to Palma De Mallorca (PMI) and London to Faro (FAO).

14 courier postings name LGW as the airport a courier here flies from: Reading, Brighton and Southampton.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LGW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 203 destinations above.