NCE Nice

How deep the NCE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from NCE. This reads the same 116 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.

• 81of the 116 destinations are flown by one airline
• 50destinations run less than once a day
• 12destinations have four or more departures a day
• 37.1%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at NCE

57 airlines appear on the NCE board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 43 of the 116 destinations, 37.1 per cent of them, and on 25 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 83 of the 207 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 Volotea on 9 destinations. 33 of the 57 airlines at NCE 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 NCE: one airline on 37.1 per cent of the destinations and the other 62.9 per cent spread across 56 airlines. A cancellation inside the easyJet network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 73 destinations easyJet does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the NCE board is daily

Of the 116 destinations, 66 are flown at least once a day and 50 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the NCE 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: NCE to Torp (TRF) 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 47.1 of the 207 departures a day, 22.8 per cent of the whole board. The other 111 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at NCE 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	easyJet	1	2,085	plan this
Hurghada HRG	Egypt	easyJet	1	3,004	plan this
Santorini Island JTR	Greece	easyJet	1	1,747	plan this
Tenerife Island TFS	Spain	easyJet	1	2,741	plan this
Torp TRF	Norway	Wideroe	1	1,739	plan this
Aalborg AAL	Denmark	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	1,505	plan this
Bari BRI	Italy	easyJet	2	832	plan this
Bergen BGO	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	1,855	plan this
Biarritz/Anglet/Bayonne BIQ	France	easyJet	2	704	plan this
Brussels CRL	Belgium	Volotea	2	785	plan this

The ten destinations out of NCE 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. 35 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from NCE

The desk holds the return direction for 97 of the 116 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into NCE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Istanbul (SAW) at 1.8 out a day against 0.71 back, Atlanta (ATL) at 2 out a day against 1.1 back and Bristol (BRS) at 1.1 out a day against 0.71 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 8.9 a day back into NCE against 5.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at NCE

NCE 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 NCE, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at NCE and still make a departure the same day.

The night at NCE

17 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 NCE that lands inside it leaves around 22:29, on a modelled block of 1h 31m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from NCE that lands inside it leaves around 22:00, on a modelled block of 1h 30m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from NCE that lands inside it leaves around 22:40, on a modelled block of 1h 50m. Those three departure times out of NCE 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 NCE 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 21 airport pair pages that start or end at NCE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Nice to Paris (ORY), Nice to Nantes (NTE) and Nice to Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL).

Nine courier postings name NCE as the airport a courier here flies from: Marseille, Nice and Toulon.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with NCE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 116 destinations above.