RAI Praia

How deep the RAI board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from RAI. This reads the same 9 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.

• 5of the 9 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 33.3%of the destinations name TACV Cabo Verde Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at RAI

Nine airlines appear on the RAI board and they do not hold it evenly. TACV Cabo Verde Airlines is on 3 of the 9 destinations, 33.3 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 3.7 of the 8.3 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 2 destinations. 4 of the 9 airlines at RAI 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 RAI: one airline on 33.3 per cent of the destinations and the other 66.7 per cent spread across 8 airlines. A cancellation inside the TACV Cabo Verde Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 6 destinations TACV Cabo Verde Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the RAI board is daily

Of the 9 destinations, 2 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the RAI 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: RAI to Recife (REC) 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 7.3 of the 8.3 departures a day, 87.8 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic RAI 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
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Transavia France	1	2,236	plan this
Recife REC	Brazil	TACV Cabo Verde Airlines	1	2,856	plan this
Bissau OXB	Guinea-Bissau	Royal Air Maroc	3	912	plan this
Ponta Delgada PDL	Portugal	Azores Airlines	4	2,546	plan this
Casablanca CMN	Morocco	Royal Air Maroc	5	2,602	plan this

The five destinations out of RAI 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 RAI

The desk holds the return direction for 7 of the 9 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into RAI runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Bissau (OXB) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of RAI turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at RAI

RAI keeps Atlantic/Cape_Verde time, five hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 04:00 at RAI, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for four hours. A customs question raised in the last five hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at RAI until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at RAI

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 Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from RAI that lands inside it leaves around 14:39, on a modelled block of 5h 51m. Those one departure times out of RAI 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 RAI turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Cabo Verde 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 RAI already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 9 destinations above.