UPG Makassar

How deep the UPG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from UPG. This reads the same 35 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 18of the 35 destinations are flown by one airline
• 11destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 60%of the destinations name Lion Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at UPG

13 airlines appear on the UPG board and they do not hold it evenly. Lion Air is on 21 of the 35 destinations, 60 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 87.3 of the 105.3 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 Sriwijaya Air on 12 destinations. 6 of the 13 airlines at UPG 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 21 of the 35 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a UPG sector is usually another Lion Air aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for UPG, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the UPG board is daily

Of the 35 destinations, 24 are flown at least once a day and 11 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the UPG 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: UPG to Batu Licin-Borneo Island (BTW) 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 52.6 of the 105.3 departures a day, 49.9 per cent of the whole board. The other 30 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at UPG usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Batu Licin-Borneo Island BTW	Indonesia	Wings Air (Indonesia)	1	435	plan this
Bima-Sumbawa Island BMU	Indonesia	Wings Air (Indonesia)	3	398	plan this
Maumere-Flores Island MOF	Indonesia	Wings Air (Indonesia)	3	496	plan this
Raha-Muna Island RAQ	Indonesia	Sriwijaya Air	3	351	plan this
Singapore SIN	Singapore	Scoot	3	1,870	plan this
Wamena-Papua Island WMX	Indonesia	Sriwijaya Air	3	2,153	plan this
Kupang-Timor Island KOE	Indonesia	Lion Air	4	727	plan this
Mataram LOP	Indonesia	Lion Air	4	547	plan this
Banjarmasin-Borneo Island BDJ	Indonesia	Lion Air	5	561	plan this
Biak-Supiori Island BIK	Indonesia	Lion Air	6	1,887	plan this

The ten destinations out of UPG 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 UPG

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 35 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into UPG runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Denpasar-Bali Island (DPS) at 5.9 out a day against 4 back.

It runs the other way as well: Jeddah (JED) files 0.57 a day back into UPG against 0.33 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at UPG

UPG keeps Asia/Makassar time, four hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 13:00 at UPG, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at UPG until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where UPG turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 3 airport pair pages that start or end at UPG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Makassar to Jakarta (CGK), Makassar to Surabaya (SUB) and Makassar to Denpasar-Bali Island (DPS).

One courier posting names UPG as the airport a courier here flies from: Makassar.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with UPG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 35 destinations above.