PBM Paramaribo

How deep the PBM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PBM. This reads the same 8 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.

• 6of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 50%of the destinations name Surinam Airways, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PBM

Six airlines appear on the PBM board and they do not hold it evenly. Surinam Airways is on 4 of the 8 destinations, 50 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 5.1 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 KLM on 2 destinations. 4 of the 6 airlines at PBM 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 4 of the 8 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PBM sector is usually another Surinam Airways 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 PBM than the destination count does.

How much of the PBM board is daily

Of the 8 destinations, 1 is flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PBM 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: PBM to Lisbon (LIS) 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 4.4 of the 5.1 departures a day, 86 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic PBM 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
Lisbon LIS	Portugal	KLM	1	5,923	plan this
Oranjestad AUA	Aruba	Surinam Airways	2	1,806	plan this
Port of Spain POS	Trinidad and Tobago	Caribbean Airlines	2	886	plan this
Santo Domingo City SDQ	the Dominican Republic	Sky High Aviation	3	2,133	plan this
Georgetown GEO	Guyana	Surinam Airways	6	358	plan this
Tocumen PTY	Panama	Copa Airlines	6	2,698	plan this

The six destinations out of PBM 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 PBM

The desk holds the return direction for 5 of the 8 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into PBM runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Port of Spain (POS) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Georgetown (GEO) files 1.3 a day back into PBM against 0.86 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PBM

PBM keeps America/Paramaribo time, seven hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 02:00 at PBM, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for two hours. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for PBM is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at PBM

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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PBM that lands inside it leaves around 08:26, on a modelled block of 9h 34m. Those one departure times out of PBM 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 PBM turns up on the rest of this site

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

Three courier postings name PBM as the airport a courier here flies from: Paramaribo, Lelydorp and Brokopondo.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PBM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 8 destinations above.