YUL Montreal

How deep the YUL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YUL. This reads the same 157 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.

• 93of the 157 destinations are flown by one airline
• 71destinations run less than once a day
• 15destinations have four or more departures a day
• 58.6%of the destinations name Air Canada, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YUL

71 airlines appear on the YUL board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Canada is on 92 of the 157 destinations, 58.6 per cent of them, and on 39 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 276.4 of the 317.8 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 Air Transat on 36 destinations. 41 of the 71 airlines at YUL 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 92 of the 157 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a YUL sector is usually another Air Canada 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 YUL than the destination count does.

How much of the YUL board is daily

Of the 157 destinations, 86 are flown at least once a day and 71 are not, 20 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YUL 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: YUL to Salluit (YZG) 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 77.1 of the 317.8 departures a day, 24.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 152 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at YUL usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Air Transat	1	5,729	plan this
Bangor BGR	the United States	JRE	1	392	plan this
Boca Raton BCT	the United States	Nolinor	1	2,197	plan this
Cartagena de Indias CTG	Colombia	Air Transat	1	3,899	plan this
Denver APA	the United States	Starlink Aviation	1	2,615	plan this
Farmingdale FRG	the United States	KPO	1	528	plan this
Farnborough FAB	the United Kingdom	London Executive Aviation	1	5,203	plan this
Flint FNT	the United States	United Airlines	1	844	plan this
Freeport FPO	the Bahamas	WestJet	1	2,149	plan this
Gaspé YGP	Canada	PAL Airlines	1	791	plan this

The ten destinations out of YUL 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. 47 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YUL

The desk holds the return direction for 100 of the 157 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into YUL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Milwaukee (MKE) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Montego Bay (MBJ) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Edmonton (YEG) at 5.6 out a day against 3.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 5 a day back into YUL against 2.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at YUL

YUL keeps America/Toronto time, eight hours behind Dubai in summer and nine hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at YUL, 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 YUL is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at YUL

14 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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from YUL that lands inside it leaves around 10:51, on a modelled block of 7h 09m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from YUL that lands inside it leaves around 11:43, on a modelled block of 6h 47m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YUL that lands inside it leaves around 09:27, on a modelled block of 7h 33m. Those three departure times out of YUL 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 YUL turns up on the rest of this site

YUL carries two other pages on this site as well: the Canada country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the YUL transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at YUL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Montreal to Toronto (YYZ), Montreal to Ottawa (YOW) and Montreal to Quebec (YQB).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Montreal. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at YUL written out.

14 courier postings name YUL as the airport a courier here flies from: Ottawa, Trois-Rivières and Sherbrooke.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YUL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 157 destinations above.