Live departures from Sharjah Airport

The board above is live and refreshes on its own. It covers the departures around now; anything further ahead than the rest of today is not listed yet.

What the columns mean

Time is the scheduled departure. A revised time appears alongside the original rather than replacing it, so you see both what was planned and what is now expected. Boarding is earlier.

Flight is the airline’s own flight number — the thing to search for if you were sent a booking reference instead.

To is the destination city.

Status comes from the airline and the airport rather than from us: expected, boarding, departed, and sometimes delayed or cancelled.

Terminal and gate share the last column. Sharjah has one passenger terminal, so the first half never changes; the gate is the part to watch, and it appears once the airline assigns it — an empty cell means not yet, not missing.

If your flight has moved

A delay on this board is the airline’s estimate and can move again — in increments, which is a different situation from one long delay announced once. Stay where the staff are, not where the screens are.

A delay past a certain length stops being an inconvenience and becomes something the airline owes you for: meals, and a room if the wait turns into a night. Ask at your own airline’s desk — what a UAE airline has to give you sets out what to ask for.