SID Mindelo

How deep the SID board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SID. This reads the same 27 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.

• 23of the 27 destinations are flown by one airline
• 24destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 22.2%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SID

14 airlines appear on the SID board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 6 of the 27 destinations, 22.2 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 5.3 of the 11.6 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 TACV Cabo Verde Airlines on 6 destinations. 9 of the 14 airlines at SID 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.

No airline holds more than 22.2 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 23 of the 27 sectors at SID do not.

How much of the SID board is daily

Of the 27 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 24 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SID board is flown 2 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: SID to Warsaw (WAW) 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 5.9 of the 11.6 departures a day, 50.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves SID 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
Bilbao BIO	Spain	TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	1	3,507	plan this
Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	TUIfly	1	4,649	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	Binter Canarias	1	1,466	plan this
Luxembourg LUX	Luxembourg	Luxair	1	4,496	plan this
Munich MUC	Germany	TUIfly	1	4,717	plan this
Rome FCO	Italy	Neos	1	4,355	plan this
São Pedro VXE	Cabo Verde	TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	1	224	plan this
Stuttgart STR	Germany	TUIfly	1	4,590	plan this
Verona VRN	Italy	Neos	1	4,472	plan this
Warsaw WAW	Poland	Smartwings Poland	1	5,494	plan this

The ten destinations out of SID 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. 12 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SID

The desk holds the return direction for 15 of the 27 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into SID runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Prague (PRG) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Bergamo (BGY) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Manchester (MAN) files 1.1 a day back into SID against 0.43 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SID

SID keeps Atlantic/Cape_Verde time, five hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 04:00 at SID, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for four hours. A customs question raised in the last five hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at SID until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at SID

7 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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from SID that lands inside it leaves around 13:55, on a modelled block of 6h 05m. Into Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from SID that lands inside it leaves around 12:54, on a modelled block of 6h 06m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SID that lands inside it leaves around 15:47, on a modelled block of 5h 43m. Those three departure times out of SID 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 SID turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Cabo Verde 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 SID already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 27 destinations above.