NTE Nantes

How deep the NTE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from NTE. This reads the same 89 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.

• 47of the 89 destinations are flown by one airline
• 54destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 46.1%of the destinations name Volotea, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at NTE

24 airlines appear on the NTE board and they do not hold it evenly. Volotea is on 41 of the 89 destinations, 46.1 per cent of them, and on 15 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 46.7 of the 98 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 easyJet on 32 destinations. 14 of the 24 airlines at NTE 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 41 of the 89 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an NTE sector is usually another Volotea 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 NTE than the destination count does.

How much of the NTE board is daily

Of the 89 destinations, 35 are flown at least once a day and 54 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the NTE board is flown 5 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: NTE to Varna (VAR) 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 22.6 of the 98 departures a day, 23 per cent of the whole board. With 60.7 per cent of the 89 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Antalya AYT	Turkiye	Transavia France	1	2,884	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	Volotea	1	882	plan this
Oujda OUD	Morocco	Transavia France	1	1,375	plan this
Pátrai GPA	Greece	Volotea	1	2,122	plan this
Quebec YQB	Canada	Air Transat	1	5,109	plan this
Santorini Island JTR	Greece	Transavia France	1	2,527	plan this
Souda CHQ	Greece	easyJet	1	2,492	plan this
Varna VAR	Bulgaria	Volotea	1	2,333	plan this
Bâle/Mulhouse BSL	France	easyJet	2	690	the pair page
Brindisi BDS	Italy	Volotea	2	1,719	plan this

The ten destinations out of NTE 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. 30 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from NTE

The desk holds the return direction for 67 of the 89 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into NTE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Podgorica (TGD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Prague (PRG) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS) files 3.1 a day back into NTE against 2 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at NTE

NTE keeps Europe/Paris time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at NTE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at NTE and still make a departure the same day.

The night at NTE

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 Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from NTE that lands inside it leaves around 22:57, on a modelled block of 1h 03m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from NTE that lands inside it leaves around 21:25, on a modelled block of 1h 35m. Into Geneva (GVA) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from NTE that lands inside it leaves around 22:37, on a modelled block of 1h 23m. Those three departure times out of NTE 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 NTE turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 31 airport pair pages that start or end at NTE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Nantes to Palma De Mallorca (PMI), Nantes to Lyon (LYS) and Nantes to Marseille (MRS).

13 courier postings name NTE as the airport a courier here flies from: Nantes, Rennes and Angers.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with NTE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 89 destinations above.