LYS Lyon

How deep the LYS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LYS. This reads the same 122 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.

• 67of the 122 destinations are flown by one airline
• 69destinations run less than once a day
• 9destinations have four or more departures a day
• 39.3%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LYS

54 airlines appear on the LYS board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 48 of the 122 destinations, 39.3 per cent of them, and on 16 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 64.5 of the 152.8 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 Transavia France on 35 destinations. 34 of the 54 airlines at LYS 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.

That is a middling concentration at LYS: one airline on 39.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 60.7 per cent spread across 53 airlines. A cancellation inside the easyJet network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 74 destinations easyJet does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the LYS board is daily

Of the 122 destinations, 53 are flown at least once a day and 69 are not, 12 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LYS board is flown 5 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: LYS to Zagreb (ZAG) 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 26.9 of the 152.8 departures a day, 17.6 per cent of the whole board. With 56.6 per cent of the 122 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
Antalya AYT	Turkiye	Transavia France	1	2,347	plan this
Birmingham BHX	the United Kingdom	Silver Cloud Air	1	898	the pair page
Girona GRO	Spain	FSF	1	465	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	easyJet	1	2,674	plan this
Le Havre/Octeville LEH	France	Amelia International	1	565	plan this
London BQH	the United Kingdom	GlobalAir	1	726	plan this
Paris ORY	France	Transavia France	1	392	the pair page
Sharm el Sheikh SSH	Egypt	easyJet	1	3,239	plan this
Stockholm ARN	Sweden	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	1,767	plan this
Toulon/Hyères/Le Palyvestre TLN	France	ELG	1	304	plan this

The ten destinations out of LYS 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 LYS

The desk holds the return direction for 81 of the 122 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into LYS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Istanbul (IST) at 3 out a day against 2.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 1.4 a day back into LYS against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at LYS

LYS keeps Europe/Paris time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at LYS, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at LYS and still make a departure the same day.

The night at LYS

13 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 LYS that lands inside it leaves around 22:54, on a modelled block of 1h 06m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LYS that lands inside it leaves around 21:25, on a modelled block of 1h 35m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from LYS that lands inside it leaves around 21:42, on a modelled block of 1h 18m. Those three departure times out of LYS 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 LYS turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 51 airport pair pages that start or end at LYS, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Lyon to Bordeaux/Mérignac (BOD), Lyon to Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) and Lyon to Algiers (ALG).

Nine courier postings name LYS as the airport a courier here flies from: Geneva, Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LYS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 122 destinations above.