MAO Manaus

How deep the MAO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MAO. This reads the same 24 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.

• 16of the 24 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 70.8%of the destinations name Azul, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MAO

Six airlines appear on the MAO board and they do not hold it evenly. Azul is on 17 of the 24 destinations, 70.8 per cent of them, and on 13 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 16.4 of the 32.3 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 Gol on 8 destinations. 3 of the 6 airlines at MAO 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 17 of the 24 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MAO sector is usually another Azul 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 MAO, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the MAO board is daily

Of the 24 destinations, 12 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MAO 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: MAO to Oriximiná (TMT) 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 18.6 of the 32.3 departures a day, 57.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MAO is aimed at those five places, 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 them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Maués MBZ	Brazil	Azul	1	261	plan this
Oriximiná TMT	Brazil	Azul	1	441	plan this
Coari CIZ	Brazil	Azul	2	363	plan this
Lábrea LBR	Brazil	Azul	2	704	plan this
Manicoré MNX	Brazil	Azul	2	337	plan this
São Gabriel Da Cachoeira SJL	Brazil	Azul	2	835	plan this
Itaituba ITB	Brazil	Azul	3	469	plan this
Rio Branco RBR	Brazil	Gol	3	1,152	plan this
Tabatinga TBT	Brazil	Azul	3	1,105	plan this
Bogotá BOG	Colombia	Avianca	4	1,787	the pair page

The ten destinations out of MAO 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. 2 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MAO

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 24 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 8 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MAO is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Fortaleza (FOR) files 2.1 a day back into MAO against 1.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MAO

MAO keeps America/Manaus time, eight hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at MAO, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for an hour. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for MAO is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

Where MAO turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at MAO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Manaus to São Paulo (GRU) and Manaus to Bogotá (BOG).

One courier posting names MAO as the airport a courier here flies from: Manaus.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MAO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 24 destinations above.