MDE Medellin

How deep the MDE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MDE. This reads the same 39 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.

• 20of the 39 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 9destinations have four or more departures a day
• 69.2%of the destinations name Avianca, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MDE

15 airlines appear on the MDE board and they do not hold it evenly. Avianca is on 27 of the 39 destinations, 69.2 per cent of them, and on 10 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 141.6 of the 158.7 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 Copa Airlines Colombia on 14 destinations. 9 of the 15 airlines at MDE 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 27 of the 39 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MDE sector is usually another Avianca 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 MDE than the destination count does.

How much of the MDE board is daily

Of the 39 destinations, 29 are flown at least once a day and 10 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the MDE board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MDE to Montego Bay (MBJ) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 94.8 of the 158.7 departures a day, 59.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves MDE 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
Barcelona BLA	Venezuela	Avior	3	1,260	plan this
Caracas CCS	Venezuela	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	1,050	plan this
Guatemala City GUA	Guatemala	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	1,897	plan this
Guayaquil GYE	Ecuador	Avianca	3	1,050	plan this
Montego Bay MBJ	Jamaica	Copa Airlines Colombia	3	1,398	plan this
Mexico City NLU	Mexico	VivaAerobus	4	2,963	the pair page
Oranjestad AUA	Aruba	Copa Airlines Colombia	4	921	plan this
Santiago SCL	Chile	JetSMART	4	4,426	the pair page
Quito UIO	Ecuador	Avianca	6	772	plan this

The nine destinations out of MDE 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 MDE

The desk holds the return direction for 27 of the 39 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 27 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MDE is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at MDE

MDE keeps America/Bogota time, nine hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at MDE, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where MDE turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 6 airport pair pages that start or end at MDE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Medellin to Bogotá (BOG), Medellin to Tocumen (PTY) and Medellin to Mexico City (MEX).

Two courier postings name MDE as the airport a courier here flies from: Medellin and Rionegro.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MDE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 39 destinations above.