MGQ Mogadishu

How deep the MGQ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MGQ. This reads the same 8 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.

• 5of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
• 6destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 50%of the destinations name Daallo Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MGQ

Seven airlines appear on the MGQ board and they do not hold it evenly. Daallo Airlines is on 4 of the 8 destinations, 50 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 3 of the 6.6 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 World Ticket Ltd on 2 destinations. 4 of the 7 airlines at MGQ 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 4 of the 8 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MGQ sector is usually another Daallo Airlines 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 MGQ, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the MGQ board is daily

Of the 8 destinations, 2 are flown at least once a day and 6 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the MGQ board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MGQ to Muscat (MCT) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 5.7 of the 6.6 departures a day, 86.8 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic MGQ 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
Bosaso BSA	Somalia	Daallo Airlines	2	1,114	plan this
Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	Daallo Airlines	2	2,286	plan this
Muscat MCT	Oman	SalamAir	2	2,777	plan this
Kampala EBB	Uganda	Uganda Airlines	5	1,447	plan this

The four destinations out of MGQ 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 MGQ

The desk holds the return direction for 7 of the 8 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 7 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MGQ is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Jeddah (JED) files 0.57 a day back into MGQ against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MGQ

MGQ keeps Africa/Mogadishu time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at MGQ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at MGQ and still make a departure the same day.

Where MGQ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Somalia 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 MGQ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 8 destinations above.