YYZ Toronto

How deep the YYZ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from YYZ. This reads the same 198 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.

• 92of the 198 destinations are flown by one airline
• 85destinations run less than once a day
• 46destinations have four or more departures a day
• 60.6%of the destinations name Air Canada, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at YYZ

97 airlines appear on the YYZ board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Canada is on 120 of the 198 destinations, 60.6 per cent of them, and on 33 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 544.9 of the 603.3 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 WestJet on 41 destinations. 60 of the 97 airlines at YYZ 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 120 of the 198 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a YYZ sector is usually another Air Canada 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 YYZ than the destination count does.

How much of the YYZ board is daily

Of the 198 destinations, 113 are flown at least once a day and 85 are not, 29 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the YYZ 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: YYZ 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 143.1 of the 603.3 departures a day, 23.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 193 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at YYZ usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Argyle SVD	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Air Canada	1	3,825	plan this
Carlsbad CLD	the United States	Baker Aviation	1	3,449	plan this
Cartagena de Indias CTG	Colombia	Air Transat	1	3,717	plan this
Comox YQQ	Canada	WestJet	1	3,461	plan this
Dallas DAL	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,920	plan this
Detroit DET	the United States	Chartright Air	1	309	plan this
Erie ERI	the United States	Flexjet	1	183	plan this
Freeport FPO	the Bahamas	WestJet	1	1,905	plan this
Islamabad ISB	Pakistan	Pakistan International Airlines	1	10,985	plan this
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	Emirates	1	11,105	plan this

The ten destinations out of YYZ 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. 57 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from YYZ

The desk holds the return direction for 121 of the 198 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On six of them the return into YYZ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Shanghai (PVG) at 1.9 out a day against 1 back, Edmonton (YEG) at 18.6 out a day against 12.3 back and Venice (VCE) at 1.3 out a day against 0.86 back.

It runs the other way as well: Vienna (VIE) files 1.6 a day back into YYZ against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at YYZ

YYZ keeps America/Toronto time, eight hours behind Dubai in summer and nine 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 01:00 at YYZ, 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 YYZ is briefed the day before rather than on the morning it flies.

The night at YYZ

11 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 (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from YYZ that lands inside it leaves around 11:08, on a modelled block of 7h 22m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YYZ that lands inside it leaves around 09:17, on a modelled block of 7h 43m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from YYZ that lands inside it leaves around 08:52, on a modelled block of 8h 08m. Those three departure times out of YYZ 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 YYZ turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at YYZ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Toronto to Calgary (YYC), Toronto to Vancouver (YVR) and Toronto to Montreal (YUL).

Four of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Toronto, Dubai to Toronto and Toronto to Frankfurt. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at YYZ written out.

17 courier postings name YYZ as the airport a courier here flies from: Mississauga, Hamilton and London.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with YYZ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 198 destinations above.