WDH Windhoek

How deep the WDH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from WDH. This reads the same 10 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.

• 8of the 10 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 40%of the destinations name South African Airlink, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at WDH

Eight airlines appear on the WDH board and they do not hold it evenly. South African Airlink is on 4 of the 10 destinations, 40 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 11.3 of the 15.7 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 Flight Alaska on 2 destinations. 6 of the 8 airlines at WDH 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 WDH: one airline on 40 per cent of the destinations and the other 60 per cent spread across 7 airlines. A cancellation inside the South African Airlink network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 6 destinations South African Airlink does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the WDH board is daily

Of the 10 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the WDH board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: WDH to Zurich (ZRH) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 12.9 of the 15.7 departures a day, 81.8 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic WDH is five sectors and a short tail, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests and a hand carry that is not going to one of those five is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Munich MUC	Germany	Flight Alaska	3	7,897	plan this
Zurich ZRH	Switzerland	Edelweiss Air	3	7,829	plan this
Livingstone LVI	Zambia	Proflight Zambia	4	1,014	plan this
Luanda NBJ	Angola	TAAG	5	1,552	plan this
Maun MUB	Botswana	South African Airlink	5	678	plan this

The five destinations out of WDH 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.

The way back from WDH

The desk holds the return direction for 8 of the 10 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 8 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through WDH is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at WDH

WDH keeps Africa/Windhoek time, two hours behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at WDH, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at WDH and still make a departure the same day.

The night at WDH

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 Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from WDH that lands inside it leaves around 12:44, on a modelled block of 10h 16m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from WDH that lands inside it leaves around 11:59, on a modelled block of 10h 01m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from WDH that lands inside it leaves around 13:04, on a modelled block of 9h 56m. Those three departure times out of WDH 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 WDH turns up on the rest of this site

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

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with WDH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 10 destinations above.