SHJ Sharjah

How deep the SHJ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SHJ. This reads the same 81 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.

• 61of the 81 destinations are flown by one airline
• 14destinations run less than once a day
• 9destinations have four or more departures a day
• 82.7%of the destinations name Air Arabia, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SHJ

25 airlines appear on the SHJ board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Arabia is on 67 of the 81 destinations, 82.7 per cent of them, and on 50 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 155.7 of the 175.9 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 India Express on 9 destinations. 16 of the 25 airlines at SHJ 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.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 67 of the 81 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SHJ sector is usually another Air Arabia aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at SHJ than the destination count does.

How much of the SHJ board is daily

Of the 81 destinations, 67 are flown at least once a day and 14 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SHJ 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: SHJ to Ulaan Baatar (UBN) 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 39.1 of the 175.9 departures a day, 22.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 76 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at SHJ usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Hargeisa HGA	Somalia	Jetalliance Flugbetriebs	1	2,133	plan this
Hong Kong HKG	Hong Kong	MNG Airlines	1	5,903	the pair page
London LTN	the United Kingdom	VistaJet	1	5,504	the pair page
Sylhet ZYL	Bangladesh	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	1	3,648	plan this
Ulaan Baatar UBN	Mongolia	Royal Jet	1	5,096	plan this
Naqpur NAG	India	Air Arabia	3	2,447	plan this
Quetta UET	Pakistan	Air Arabia	3	1,249	plan this
Al-Jawf AJF	Saudi Arabia	Air Arabia	4	1,597	plan this
Basrah BSR	Iraq	Air Arabia	4	965	plan this
Djibouti City JIB	Djibouti	Kenya Airways	4	2,009	plan this

The ten destinations out of SHJ 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. 3 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SHJ

The desk holds the return direction for 64 of the 81 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into SHJ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Lahore (LHE) at 4.4 out a day against 2.7 back, Islamabad (ISB) at 5.1 out a day against 3.3 back and Mumbai (BOM) at 3.6 out a day against 2.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Istanbul (SAW) files 2.7 a day back into SHJ against 1.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SHJ

SHJ keeps Asia/Dubai time, the same clock the desk works to, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here in the same working hour and a cut off quoted from Dubai needs no arithmetic at this end.

The night at SHJ

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 London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SHJ that lands inside it leaves around 19:24, on a modelled block of 7h 06m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from SHJ that lands inside it leaves around 17:00, on a modelled block of 6h 00m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SHJ that lands inside it leaves around 19:54, on a modelled block of 5h 36m. Those three departure times out of SHJ 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 SHJ turns up on the rest of this site

SHJ carries two other pages on this site as well: the United Arab Emirates country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the SHJ transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 30 airport pair pages that start or end at SHJ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Sharjah to Doha (DOH), Sharjah to Islamabad (ISB) and Sharjah to Trivandrum (TRV).

28 of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Almaty to Sharjah, Cairo to Sharjah and Colombo to Sharjah. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at SHJ written out.

Six courier postings name SHJ as the airport a courier here flies from: Sharjah, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SHJ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 81 destinations above.