SJC San Jose

How deep the SJC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SJC. This reads the same 122 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.

• 72of the 122 destinations are flown by one airline
• 88destinations run less than once a day
• 13destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40.2%of the destinations name NetJets Aviation, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SJC

56 airlines appear on the SJC board and they do not hold it evenly. NetJets Aviation is on 49 of the 122 destinations, 40.2 per cent of them, and on 17 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 112.6 of the 193.3 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 Southwest Airlines on 23 destinations. 27 of the 56 airlines at SJC 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 SJC: one airline on 40.2 per cent of the destinations and the other 59.8 per cent spread across 55 airlines. A cancellation inside the NetJets Aviation network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 73 destinations NetJets Aviation does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the SJC board is daily

Of the 122 destinations, 34 are flown at least once a day and 88 are not, 44 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SJC board is flown 2 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: SJC to White Plains (HPN) 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 74.1 of the 193.3 departures a day, 38.4 per cent of the whole board. With 72.1 per cent of the 122 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
Bishop BIH	the United States	Flexjet	1	315	plan this
Boston BOS	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	4,317	plan this
Bremerton PWT	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,128	plan this
Charleston CHS	the United States	Baker Aviation	1	3,810	plan this
Dallas ADS	the United States	Solarius Aviation	1	2,325	plan this
Detroit DTW	the United States	Alaska Airlines	1	3,311	plan this
Detroit YIP	the United States	JWZ	1	3,296	plan this
Fort Lauderdale FXE	the United States	Libyan Airlines	1	4,101	plan this
Houston CXO	the United States	JRE	1	2,559	plan this
Houston EFD	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	2,617	plan this

The ten destinations out of SJC 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. 55 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SJC

The desk holds the return direction for 30 of the 122 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into SJC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Pittsburgh (PIT) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back, Oakland (OAK) at 2.6 out a day against 1.6 back and Baltimore (BWI) at 2 out a day against 1.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 0.43 a day back into SJC against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SJC

SJC keeps America/Los_Angeles time, eleven hours behind Dubai in summer and twelve 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 22:00 at SJC, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

The night at SJC

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 Düsseldorf (DUS) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from SJC that lands inside it leaves around 01:42, on a modelled block of 11h 18m. Those one departure times out of SJC 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 SJC 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 9 airport pair pages that start or end at SJC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are San Jose to San Diego (SAN), San Jose to Seattle (SEA) and San Jose to Las Vegas (LAS).

17 courier postings name SJC as the airport a courier here flies from: San Jose, Stockton and Fremont.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SJC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 122 destinations above.