WAW Warsaw

How deep the WAW board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from WAW. This reads the same 165 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.

• 101of the 165 destinations are flown by one airline
• 61destinations run less than once a day
• 28destinations have four or more departures a day
• 62.4%of the destinations name LOT - Polish Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at WAW

51 airlines appear on the WAW board and they do not hold it evenly. LOT - Polish Airlines is on 103 of the 165 destinations, 62.4 per cent of them, and on 48 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 280.1 of the 327.5 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 Wizz Air on 56 destinations. 34 of the 51 airlines at WAW 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 103 of the 165 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a WAW sector is usually another LOT - Polish Airlines 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 WAW than the destination count does.

How much of the WAW board is daily

Of the 165 destinations, 104 are flown at least once a day and 61 are not, 17 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the WAW 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: WAW to Warsaw (WMI) 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 39.6 of the 327.5 departures a day, 12.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 160 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at WAW usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Agadir AGA	Morocco	Enter Air	1	3,467	plan this
Copenhagen RKE	Denmark	JNJ	1	692	plan this
Edinburgh EDI	the United Kingdom	VistaJet	1	1,634	plan this
El Alamein DBB	Egypt	Smartwings Poland	1	2,440	plan this
Girona GRO	Spain	Smartwings Poland	1	1,782	plan this
Gran Canaria Island LPA	Spain	Smartwings Poland	1	4,031	plan this
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	JDI	1	4,177	plan this
Kavala KVA	Greece	Smartwings Poland	1	1,282	plan this
Kefallinia Island EFL	Greece	Buzz (Ryanair Sun)	1	1,562	plan this
London STN	the United Kingdom	JDI	1	1,414	plan this

The ten destinations out of WAW 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 WAW

The desk holds the return direction for 121 of the 165 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into WAW runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Hurghada (HRG) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back, Espargos (SID) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Alicante (ALC) at 2.9 out a day against 1.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: New York (JFK) files 4 a day back into WAW against 2.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at WAW

WAW keeps Europe/Warsaw 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 WAW, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at WAW and still make a departure the same day.

The night at WAW

16 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 WAW that lands inside it leaves around 21:06, on a modelled block of 1h 54m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from WAW that lands inside it leaves around 21:21, on a modelled block of 1h 39m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from WAW that lands inside it leaves around 21:47, on a modelled block of 2h 13m. Those three departure times out of WAW 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 WAW turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at WAW, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Warsaw to Amsterdam (AMS), Warsaw to Copenhagen (CPH) and Warsaw to Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA).

Four of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Warsaw, Warsaw to Seoul and Warsaw to Shanghai. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at WAW written out.

Eight courier postings name WAW as the airport a courier here flies from: Warsaw, Łódź and Lublin.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with WAW already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 165 destinations above.