STL St Louis

How deep the STL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from STL. This reads the same 108 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.

• 69of the 108 destinations are flown by one airline
• 55destinations run less than once a day
• 19destinations have four or more departures a day
• 44.4%of the destinations name Southwest Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at STL

33 airlines appear on the STL board and they do not hold it evenly. Southwest Airlines is on 48 of the 108 destinations, 44.4 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 174 of the 229.7 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 NetJets Aviation on 27 destinations. 14 of the 33 airlines at STL 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 STL: one airline on 44.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.6 per cent spread across 32 airlines. A cancellation inside the Southwest Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 60 destinations Southwest 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 STL board is daily

Of the 108 destinations, 53 are flown at least once a day and 55 are not, 36 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the STL 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: STL to Westhampton Beach (FOK) 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 59.1 of the 229.7 departures a day, 25.7 per cent of the whole board. With 50.9 per cent of the 108 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
Appleton ATW	the United States	VPCOX	1	632	plan this
Atlanta PDK	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	767	plan this
Bar Harbor BHB	the United States	JRE	1	1,930	plan this
Baton Rouge BTR	the United States	Jet Linx Aviation	1	916	plan this
Belmar/Farmingdale BLM	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,402	plan this
Branson BKG	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	351	plan this
Cahokia/St Louis CPS	the United States	Sun Country Airlines	1	27	plan this
College Station CLL	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,059	plan this
Columbia COU	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	161	plan this
Dallas ADS	the United States	AirShare LLC	1	867	plan this

The ten destinations out of STL 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. 37 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from STL

The desk holds the return direction for 45 of the 108 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into STL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Omaha (OMA) at 3.4 out a day against 2.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Indianapolis (IND) files 0.43 a day back into STL against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at STL

STL keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten 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 00:00 at STL, 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 STL

2 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 STL that lands inside it leaves around 06:37, on a modelled block of 9h 23m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from STL that lands inside it leaves around 08:53, on a modelled block of 8h 37m. Those two departure times out of STL 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 STL 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 18 airport pair pages that start or end at STL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are St Louis to Denver (DEN), St Louis to New York (LGA) and St Louis to Washington (DCA).

Seven courier postings name STL as the airport a courier here flies from: St. Louis, Columbia and Springfield.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with STL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 108 destinations above.