FCO Rome

How deep the FCO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from FCO. This reads the same 232 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.

• 123of the 232 destinations are flown by one airline
• 85destinations run less than once a day
• 44destinations have four or more departures a day
• 28.9%of the destinations name ITA Airways, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at FCO

113 airlines appear on the FCO board and they do not hold it evenly. ITA Airways is on 67 of the 232 destinations, 28.9 per cent of them, and on 15 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 367.1 of the 618.2 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 Wizz Air Malta on 62 destinations. 76 of the 113 airlines at FCO 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 FCO: one airline on 28.9 per cent of the destinations and the other 71.1 per cent spread across 112 airlines. A cancellation inside the ITA Airways network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 165 destinations ITA Airways does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the FCO board is daily

Of the 232 destinations, 147 are flown at least once a day and 85 are not, 15 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the FCO 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: FCO to Zanzibar (ZNZ) 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 107.6 of the 618.2 departures a day, 17.4 per cent of the whole board. The other 227 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at FCO 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 Corsica	1	243	plan this
Bodrum BJV	Turkiye	Neos	1	1,413	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	Neos	1	9,184	plan this
Forlì FRL	Italy	AEZ	1	266	plan this
Karpathos Island AOK	Greece	Neos	1	1,473	plan this
Leeds LBA	the United Kingdom	Jet2	1	1,690	plan this
Luxor LXR	Egypt	Air Cairo	1	2,594	plan this
Malé MLE	Maldives	Neos	1	7,344	plan this
Mombasa MBA	Kenya	Neos	1	5,799	plan this
Monastir MIR	Tunisia	Neos	1	685	plan this

The ten destinations out of FCO 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. 63 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from FCO

The desk holds the return direction for 169 of the 232 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into FCO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Bergamo (BGY) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Newark (EWR) at 4.4 out a day against 2.1 back and Salzburg (SZG) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: New Delhi (DEL) files 2.9 a day back into FCO against 1.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at FCO

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

The night at FCO

17 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 FCO that lands inside it leaves around 21:17, on a modelled block of 1h 43m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from FCO that lands inside it leaves around 22:06, on a modelled block of 1h 54m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from FCO that lands inside it leaves around 22:09, on a modelled block of 2h 21m. Those three departure times out of FCO 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 FCO turns up on the rest of this site

FCO carries two other pages on this site as well: the Italy country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the FCO 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 FCO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Rome to Madrid (MAD), Rome to Barcelona (BCN) and Rome to Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Rome and Munich to Rome. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at FCO written out.

Six courier postings name FCO as the airport a courier here flies from: Rome, Acilia-Castel Fusano-Ostia Antica and Terni.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with FCO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 232 destinations above.