NUE Nuremberg

How deep the NUE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from NUE. This reads the same 71 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.

• 51of the 71 destinations are flown by one airline
• 54destinations run less than once a day
• 4destinations have four or more departures a day
• 29.6%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at NUE

39 airlines appear on the NUE board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 21 of the 71 destinations, 29.6 per cent of them, and on 18 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 22 of the 72.2 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 MBU on 13 destinations. 23 of the 39 airlines at NUE 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 NUE: one airline on 29.6 per cent of the destinations and the other 70.4 per cent spread across 38 airlines. A cancellation inside the Ryanair network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 50 destinations Ryanair does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the NUE board is daily

Of the 71 destinations, 17 are flown at least once a day and 54 are not, 13 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the NUE board is flown 3 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: NUE to Washington (IAD) 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 31.4 of the 72.2 departures a day, 43.5 per cent of the whole board. With 76.1 per cent of the 71 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
Aberdeen ABZ	the United Kingdom	Aero Dienst	1	1,224	the pair page
Dublin DUB	Ireland	UNI	1	1,274	plan this
Düsseldorf DUS	Germany	Corendon Air	1	364	plan this
Groningen GRQ	the Netherlands	KLM	1	509	plan this
Hanover HAJ	Germany	AWH	1	343	the pair page
Ibiza Town IBZ	Spain	FAI rent-a-jet	1	1,409	plan this
Liège LGG	Belgium	ASL Airlines Ireland	1	421	plan this
Paris LBG	France	LUA	1	629	plan this
Roma CIA	Italy	Aero Dienst	1	864	plan this
Sønderborg SGD	Denmark	Private Wings	1	614	plan this

The ten destinations out of NUE 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. 37 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from NUE

The desk holds the return direction for 44 of the 71 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into NUE runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Cologne (CGN) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Tenerife Island (TFS) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Istanbul (IST) at 3.4 out a day against 1.7 back.

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

The clock at NUE

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

The night at NUE

6 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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from NUE that lands inside it leaves around 22:13, on a modelled block of 0h 47m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from NUE that lands inside it leaves around 21:42, on a modelled block of 1h 18m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from NUE that lands inside it leaves around 22:35, on a modelled block of 1h 25m. Those three departure times out of NUE 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 NUE turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at NUE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Nuremberg to Aberdeen (ABZ) and Nuremberg to Hanover (HAJ).

13 courier postings name NUE as the airport a courier here flies from: Nuremberg, Regensburg and Würzburg.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with NUE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 71 destinations above.