STN London

How deep the STN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from STN. This reads the same 218 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.

• 137of the 218 destinations are flown by one airline
• 96destinations run less than once a day
• 19destinations have four or more departures a day
• 63.8%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at STN

53 airlines appear on the STN board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 139 of the 218 destinations, 63.8 per cent of them, and on 82 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 258.3 of the 349.1 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 Jet2 on 50 destinations. 35 of the 53 airlines at STN 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 139 of the 218 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an STN sector is usually another Ryanair 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 STN than the destination count does.

How much of the STN board is daily

Of the 218 destinations, 122 are flown at least once a day and 96 are not, 20 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the STN 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: STN to Warsaw (WAW) 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 41.7 of the 349.1 departures a day, 11.9 per cent of the whole board. The other 213 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at STN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bergen BGO	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	984	plan this
Bournemouth BOH	the United Kingdom	Titan Airways	1	190	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Jetfly Aviation	1	314	plan this
Geneva GVA	Switzerland	FSF	1	759	plan this
Hawarden CEG	the United Kingdom	Titan Airways	1	261	plan this
Kayseri ASR	Turkiye	Sun Express	1	3,077	plan this
Kidlington OXF	the United Kingdom	WDK	1	107	plan this
Lexington LEX	the United States	Executive Jet Management	1	6,460	plan this
Liverpool LPL	the United Kingdom	2Excel Aviation	1	263	plan this
Ljubljana LJU	Slovenia	Klasjet	1	1,210	plan this

The ten destinations out of STN 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. 69 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from STN

The desk holds the return direction for 104 of the 218 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 14 of them the return into STN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Dublin (DUB) at 9.6 out a day against 0.14 back, Amsterdam (AMS) at 2.4 out a day against 0.14 back and Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) at 1.7 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Brussels (BRU) files 0.57 a day back into STN against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at STN

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

The night at STN

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 Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from STN that lands inside it leaves around 19:21, on a modelled block of 1h 39m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from STN that lands inside it leaves around 20:25, on a modelled block of 2h 05m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from STN that lands inside it leaves around 21:02, on a modelled block of 0h 58m. Those three departure times out of STN 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 STN 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 29 airport pair pages that start or end at STN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are London to Edinburgh (EDI), London to Alicante (ALC) and London to Faro (FAO).

Nine courier postings name STN as the airport a courier here flies from: Southend-on-Sea, Ipswich and Cambridge.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with STN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 218 destinations above.