CDG Paris

How deep the CDG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from CDG. This reads the same 277 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.

• 157of the 277 destinations are flown by one airline
• 110destinations run less than once a day
• 62destinations have four or more departures a day
• 62.5%of the destinations name Air France, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at CDG

133 airlines appear on the CDG board and they do not hold it evenly. Air France is on 173 of the 277 destinations, 62.5 per cent of them, and on 72 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 670.7 of the 771.4 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 easyJet on 36 destinations. 87 of the 133 airlines at CDG 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 173 of the 277 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a CDG sector is usually another Air France 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 CDG than the destination count does.

How much of the CDG board is daily

Of the 277 destinations, 167 are flown at least once a day and 110 are not, 22 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the CDG 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: CDG to Xianyang (XIY) 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 74.4 of the 771.4 departures a day, 9.6 per cent of the whole board. The other 272 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at CDG usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bastia/Poretta BIA	France	Air France	1	896	plan this
Biskra BSK	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	1,603	plan this
Calvi/Sainte-Catherine CLY	France	easyJet	1	868	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	Air France	1	8,219	plan this
Charleston CHS	the United States	Delta Air Lines	1	6,810	plan this
Chengdu TFU	China	Air China	1	8,303	plan this
Djibouti City JIB	Djibouti	Air France	1	5,592	plan this
Faro FAO	Portugal	Air France	1	1,581	plan this
Guemar ELU	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	1,759	plan this
Katowice KTW	Poland	ASL Airlines Belgium	1	1,196	plan this

The ten destinations out of CDG 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. 86 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from CDG

The desk holds the return direction for 219 of the 277 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 16 of them the return into CDG runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Oran (ORN) at 2.9 out a day against 0.57 back, Paris (ORY) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Kigali (KGL) at 0.86 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Milan (LIN) files 8.3 a day back into CDG against 2.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at CDG

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

The night at CDG

CDG carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots. That is a hole of five hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 00:00 does not go until 05:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

16 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 CDG that lands inside it leaves around 21:51, on a modelled block of 1h 09m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from CDG that lands inside it leaves around 23:29, on a modelled block of 1h 01m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from CDG that lands inside it leaves around 21:55, on a modelled block of 1h 05m. Those three departure times out of CDG 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 CDG turns up on the rest of this site

CDG carries two other pages on this site as well: the France country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the CDG transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at CDG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Paris to Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), Paris to Madrid (MAD) and Paris to London (LHR).

Nine of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Paris, Doha to Paris and Dubai to Paris. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at CDG written out.

17 courier postings name CDG as the airport a courier here flies from: Marne La Vallée, Reims and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with CDG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 277 destinations above.