PDX Portland

How deep the PDX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PDX. This reads the same 105 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.

• 64of the 105 destinations are flown by one airline
• 32destinations run less than once a day
• 27destinations have four or more departures a day
• 58.1%of the destinations name Alaska Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PDX

51 airlines appear on the PDX board and they do not hold it evenly. Alaska Airlines is on 61 of the 105 destinations, 58.1 per cent of them, and on 25 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 277.6 of the 316 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 NetJets Aviation on 14 destinations. 33 of the 51 airlines at PDX 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 61 of the 105 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PDX sector is usually another Alaska Airlines 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 PDX than the destination count does.

How much of the PDX board is daily

Of the 105 destinations, 73 are flown at least once a day and 32 are not, 18 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PDX 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: PDX to White Plains (HPN) 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 75.7 of the 316 departures a day, 24 per cent of the whole board. The other 100 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at PDX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abilene ABI	the United States	Allegiant Air	1	2,449	plan this
Appleton ATW	the United States	Executive Jet Management	1	2,667	plan this
Coeur d'Alene COE	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	503	plan this
Fargo FAR	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,979	plan this
Hailey SUN	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	697	plan this
La Grande LGD	the United States	Ameriflight	1	360	plan this
Lewiston LWS	the United States	RFS	1	440	plan this
Little Rock LIT	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	2,827	plan this
Milwaukee MKE	the United States	Alaska Airlines	1	2,757	plan this
Napa APC	the United States	Flexjet	1	821	plan this

The ten destinations out of PDX 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. 19 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from PDX

The desk holds the return direction for 44 of the 105 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On six of them the return into PDX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Minneapolis (MSP) at 6 out a day against 1.7 back, Baltimore (BWI) at 2.4 out a day against 1.1 back and Philadelphia (PHL) at 2.3 out a day against 1.1 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of PDX turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 6 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at PDX

PDX keeps America/Los_Angeles time, eleven hours behind Dubai in summer and twelve 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 22:00 at PDX, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at PDX

3 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 London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from PDX that lands inside it leaves around 05:30, on a modelled block of 10h 00m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PDX that lands inside it leaves around 03:50, on a modelled block of 10h 10m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PDX that lands inside it leaves around 03:24, on a modelled block of 10h 36m. Those three departure times out of PDX 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 PDX turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 15 airport pair pages that start or end at PDX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Portland to Seattle (SEA), Portland to Denver (DEN) and Portland to San Francisco (SFO).

Six courier postings name PDX as the airport a courier here flies from: Portland, Salem and Hillsboro.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PDX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 105 destinations above.