RDU Raleigh

How deep the RDU board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from RDU. This reads the same 152 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.

• 94of the 152 destinations are flown by one airline
• 101destinations run less than once a day
• 20destinations have four or more departures a day
• 24.3%of the destinations name Breeze Airways, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at RDU

67 airlines appear on the RDU board and they do not hold it evenly. Breeze Airways is on 37 of the 152 destinations, 24.3 per cent of them, and on 26 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 39.3 of the 243.8 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 31 destinations. 36 of the 67 airlines at RDU 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 24.3 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 94 of the 152 sectors at RDU do not.

How much of the RDU board is daily

Of the 152 destinations, 51 are flown at least once a day and 101 are not, 39 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the RDU 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: RDU to Washington (WSG) 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 59.7 of the 243.8 departures a day, 24.5 per cent of the whole board. With 66.4 per cent of the 152 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Athens AHN	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	466	plan this
Augusta AGS	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	403	plan this
Baton Rouge BTR	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,293	plan this
Boca Raton BCT	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,064	plan this
Charleston CHS	the United States	DCM	1	351	plan this
Chattanooga CHA	the United States	Flexjet	1	589	plan this
Cleveland BKL	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	675	plan this
Columbus OSU	the United States	Executive Jet Management	1	599	plan this
Columbus CSG	the United States	Vuela El Salvador	1	678	plan this
Concord CON	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,026	plan this

The ten destinations out of RDU 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. 73 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from RDU

The desk holds the return direction for 51 of the 152 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 51 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through RDU is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: New York (LGA) files 11.7 a day back into RDU against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at RDU

RDU keeps America/New_York 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 RDU, 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 RDU is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at RDU

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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from RDU that lands inside it leaves around 08:14, on a modelled block of 8h 46m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from RDU that lands inside it leaves around 10:31, on a modelled block of 7h 59m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from RDU that lands inside it leaves around 09:40, on a modelled block of 8h 20m. Those three departure times out of RDU 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 RDU turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 20 airport pair pages that start or end at RDU, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Raleigh to Charlotte (CLT), Raleigh to Orlando (MCO) and Raleigh to Philadelphia (PHL).

Twelve courier postings name RDU as the airport a courier here flies from: Raleigh, Greensboro and Durham.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with RDU already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 152 destinations above.