OUA Ouagadougou

How deep the OUA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from OUA. This reads the same 13 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.

• 9of the 13 destinations are flown by one airline
• 9destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 23.1%of the destinations name Ethiopian Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at OUA

Eleven airlines appear on the OUA board and they do not hold it evenly. Ethiopian Airlines is on 3 of the 13 destinations, 23.1 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 3.9 of the 9.6 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. 3 of the 11 airlines at OUA 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.

No airline holds more than 23.1 per cent of the destinations here, which is the more comfortable shape of the two. A cancellation at a spread airport is usually a rebooking rather than a lost day, provided the sector itself carries more than one operator, and 9 of the 13 sectors at OUA do not.

How much of the OUA board is daily

Of the 13 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 9 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the OUA 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: OUA to Tunis (TUN) 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 6.6 of the 9.6 departures a day, 68.6 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves OUA is aimed at those five places, 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 them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	2,747	plan this
Tunis TUN	Tunisia	Tunisair	1	2,965	plan this
Bobo Dioulasso BOY	Burkina Faso	Air Burkina	2	334	plan this
Istanbul IST	Turkiye	Turkish Airlines	2	4,356	plan this
Accra ACC	Ghana	Africa World Airlines	4	765	plan this
Addis Ababa ADD	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines	4	4,417	plan this
Lomé LFW	Togo	ASKY	4	752	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Brussels Airlines	5	4,321	plan this

The eight destinations out of OUA 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 OUA

The desk holds the return direction for 11 of the 13 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 11 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through OUA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (IST) files 0.57 a day back into OUA against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at OUA

OUA keeps Africa/Ouagadougou time, four hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 05:00 at OUA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at OUA until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at OUA

1 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 Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from OUA that lands inside it leaves around 15:18, on a modelled block of 5h 42m. Those one departure times out of OUA 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 OUA turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Burkina Faso 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 OUA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 destinations above.