SEZ Mahe

How deep the SEZ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SEZ. This reads the same 17 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.

• 15of the 17 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 41.2%of the destinations name Air Seychelles, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SEZ

Eleven airlines appear on the SEZ board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Seychelles is on 7 of the 17 destinations, 41.2 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 26.7 of the 34.6 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 Emirates on 2 destinations. 8 of the 11 airlines at SEZ 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 SEZ: one airline on 41.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 58.8 per cent spread across 10 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Seychelles network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 10 destinations Air Seychelles does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the SEZ board is daily

Of the 17 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SEZ board is flown 4 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: SEZ to Paris (CDG) 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 29 of the 34.6 departures a day, 83.9 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic SEZ is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Paris CDG	France	Air Seychelles	1	7,850	plan this
Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	Flight Alaska	2	7,563	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	2	5,787	plan this
Moscow SVO	Russia	Aeroflot	2	6,944	plan this
Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	Air Seychelles	3	3,008	plan this
Dar es Salaam DAR	Tanzania	Air Tanzania	4	1,822	plan this
Jo'anna JNB	South Africa	Air Seychelles	4	3,756	plan this
Mumbai BOM	India	IndiGo	4	3,254	plan this
Nairobi NBO	Kenya	Kenya Airways	4	2,098	plan this
Doha DOH	Qatar	Qatar Airways	5	3,357	plan this

The ten destinations out of SEZ 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.

The way back from SEZ

The desk holds the return direction for 14 of the 17 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into SEZ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Colombo (CMB) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Mumbai (BOM) files 0.86 a day back into SEZ against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SEZ

SEZ keeps Indian/Mahe time, the same clock the desk works to, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here in the same working hour and a cut off quoted from Dubai needs no arithmetic at this end.

The night at SEZ

2 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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from SEZ that lands inside it leaves around 15:23, on a modelled block of 9h 37m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from SEZ that lands inside it leaves around 16:03, on a modelled block of 9h 57m. Those two departure times out of SEZ 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 SEZ turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SEZ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 17 destinations above.