UVF Saint Lucia

How deep the UVF board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from UVF. This reads the same 8 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.

• 7of the 8 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 25%of the destinations name American Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at UVF

Seven airlines appear on the UVF board and they do not hold it evenly. American Airlines is on 2 of the 8 destinations, 25 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 2 of the 6.7 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 British Airways on 2 destinations. 5 of the 7 airlines at UVF 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 UVF: one airline on 25 per cent of the destinations and the other 75 per cent spread across 6 airlines. A cancellation inside the American Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 6 destinations American 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 UVF board is daily

Of the 8 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the UVF board is flown 6 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: UVF to Newark (EWR) 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 5.9 of the 6.7 departures a day, 87.3 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic UVF 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
Georgetown GEO	Guyana	British Airways	1	857	plan this
Newark EWR	the United States	United Airlines	1	3,261	plan this
London LGW	the United Kingdom	British Airways	4	6,800	plan this
Charlotte CLT	the United States	American Airlines	6	3,117	plan this

The four destinations out of UVF 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 UVF

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 8 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into UVF runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Charlotte (CLT) at 0.86 out a day against 0.57 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of UVF 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 UVF

UVF keeps America/St_Lucia time, eight hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 01:00 at UVF, 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 UVF is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at UVF

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 London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from UVF that lands inside it leaves around 09:49, on a modelled block of 8h 41m. Those one departure times out of UVF 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 UVF turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Saint Lucia 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 UVF already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 8 destinations above.