NIM Niamey

How deep the NIM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from NIM. This reads the same 10 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.

• 8of the 10 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 30%of the destinations name ASKY, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at NIM

Seven airlines appear on the NIM board and they do not hold it evenly. ASKY is on 3 of the 10 destinations, 30 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 3.4 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 Air Cote D'Ivoire on 2 destinations. 2 of the 7 airlines at NIM 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.

That is a middling concentration at NIM: one airline on 30 per cent of the destinations and the other 70 per cent spread across 6 airlines. A cancellation inside the ASKY network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 7 destinations ASKY does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the NIM board is daily

Of the 10 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the NIM board is flown 4 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: NIM to Istanbul (IST) 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 5.3 of the 6.6 departures a day, 80.2 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic NIM 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
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	1	4,020	plan this
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	2	2,583	plan this
Kano KAN	Nigeria	ASKY	2	706	plan this
N'Djamena NDJ	Chad	Turkish Airlines	2	1,401	plan this
Tunis TUN	Tunisia	Tunisair	2	2,719	plan this
Addis Ababa ADD	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines	4	4,021	plan this
Casablanca CMN	Morocco	Royal Air Maroc	4	2,422	plan this

The seven destinations out of NIM 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 NIM

The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 10 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into NIM runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Kano (KAN) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, N'Djamena (NDJ) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Abidjan (ABJ) at 1 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (IST) files 0.29 a day back into NIM against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at NIM

NIM keeps Africa/Niamey time, three hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at NIM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at NIM until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where NIM turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Niger 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 NIM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 10 destinations above.