VLC Valencia

How deep the VLC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from VLC. This reads the same 101 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.

• 70of the 101 destinations are flown by one airline
• 55destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.4%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at VLC

38 airlines appear on the VLC board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 58 of the 101 destinations, 57.4 per cent of them, and on 41 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 81.3 of the 144.3 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 Iberia on 11 destinations. 23 of the 38 airlines at VLC 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 58 of the 101 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a VLC sector is usually another Ryanair 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 VLC than the destination count does.

How much of the VLC board is daily

Of the 101 destinations, 46 are flown at least once a day and 55 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the VLC 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: VLC to Oslo (OSL) 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 33.9 of the 144.3 departures a day, 23.5 per cent of the whole board. With 54.5 per cent of the 101 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
Funchal FNC	Portugal	Iberia	1	1,644	plan this
Luxembourg LUX	Luxembourg	Luxair	1	1,245	plan this
Oslo OSL	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	1	2,439	plan this
Helsinki HEL	Finland	Finnair	2	2,909	plan this
Lamezia Terme SUF	Italy	Ryanair	2	1,441	plan this
Lanzarote Island ACE	Spain	Ryanair	2	1,679	plan this
Lyon LYS	France	Volotea	2	830	plan this
Marseille MRS	France	Ryanair	2	647	plan this
Montreal YUL	Canada	Air Transat	2	5,834	plan this
Nottingham EMA	the United Kingdom	Ryanair	2	1,485	the pair page

The ten destinations out of VLC 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. 41 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from VLC

The desk holds the return direction for 83 of the 101 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into VLC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Nuremberg (NUE) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 5.6 a day back into VLC against 4.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at VLC

VLC keeps Europe/Madrid time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three 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 07:00 at VLC, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at VLC and still make a departure the same day.

The night at VLC

17 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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from VLC that lands inside it leaves around 20:37, on a modelled block of 2h 23m. Into Paris (ORY) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from VLC that lands inside it leaves around 21:39, on a modelled block of 1h 51m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from VLC that lands inside it leaves around 22:21, on a modelled block of 2h 09m. Those three departure times out of VLC 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 VLC turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Spain country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 14 airport pair pages that start or end at VLC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Valencia to Ibiza Town (IBZ), Valencia to Paris (ORY) and Valencia to Seville (SVQ).

Nine courier postings name VLC as the airport a courier here flies from: Valencia, Alicante and Elche.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with VLC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 101 destinations above.