YQB Quebec City

How deep the YQB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YQB. This reads the same 34 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.

• 20of the 34 destinations are flown by one airline
• 19destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 20.6%of the destinations name Air Transat, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YQB

20 airlines appear on the YQB board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Transat is on 7 of the 34 destinations, 20.6 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 14.1 of the 52.2 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 Canada on 5 destinations. 6 of the 20 airlines at YQB 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 20.6 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 20 of the 34 sectors at YQB do not.

How much of the YQB board is daily

Of the 34 destinations, 15 are flown at least once a day and 19 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YQB 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: YQB to Washington (IAD) 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 30.1 of the 52.2 departures a day, 57.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves YQB 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
Cleveland CLE	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,026	plan this
Green Bay GRB	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,324	plan this
Kattiniq YAU	Canada	RAG	1	1,658	plan this
Marseille MRS	France	Air Transat	1	5,777	plan this
Nantes NTE	France	Air Transat	1	5,109	plan this
Schefferville YKL	Canada	Air Inuit	1	947	plan this
Wabush YWK	Canada	PAL Airlines	1	755	plan this
Washington IAD	the United States	United Airlines	1	1,002	plan this
Bathurst ZBF	Canada	PRO	2	437	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	Air Transat	2	3,187	plan this

The ten destinations out of YQB 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. 5 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YQB

The desk holds the return direction for 16 of the 34 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 16 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through YQB is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

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

The clock at YQB

YQB keeps America/Toronto time, eight hours behind Dubai in summer and nine 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 01:00 at YQB, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for an hour. That is a narrow window for a signature, a customs query or an authority to release, and it is the reason a consignment for YQB is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at YQB

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 (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from YQB that lands inside it leaves around 11:08, on a modelled block of 6h 52m. Those one departure times out of YQB 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 YQB turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 1 airport pair page that start or end at YQB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Quebec City to Montreal (YUL).

Ten courier postings name YQB as the airport a courier here flies from: Quebec City, Trois-Rivières and Saguenay.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YQB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 34 destinations above.