ATQ Amritsar

How deep the ATQ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ATQ. This reads the same 13 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 13 destinations are flown by one airline
• 6destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 53.8%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ATQ

Seven airlines appear on the ATQ board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 7 of the 13 destinations, 53.8 per cent of them, and on 3 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 17.9 of the 24 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 Air India on 4 destinations. 4 of the 7 airlines at ATQ 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 7 of the 13 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an ATQ sector is usually another IndiGo 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 ATQ than the destination count does.

How much of the ATQ board is daily

Of the 13 destinations, 7 are flown at least once a day and 6 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the ATQ board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ATQ to Ahmedabad (AMD) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 18.4 of the 24 departures a day, 76.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves ATQ is aimed at those five places, 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 them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Ahmedabad AMD	India	IndiGo	2	983	plan this
Bangalore BLR	India	IndiGo	3	2,080	plan this
Birmingham BHX	the United Kingdom	Air India	3	6,393	plan this
London LGW	the United Kingdom	Air India	4	6,316	plan this
Singapore SIN	Singapore	Scoot	5	4,558	plan this
Srinagar SXR	India	IndiGo	6	253	plan this

The six destinations out of ATQ 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 ATQ

The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 13 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 13 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through ATQ is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Mumbai (BOM) files 2.1 a day back into ATQ against 1.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ATQ

ATQ keeps Asia/Kolkata time, one and a half hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 10:30 at ATQ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven and a half hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at ATQ and still make a departure the same day.

The night at ATQ

1 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 (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ATQ that lands inside it leaves around 19:54, on a modelled block of 8h 06m. Those one departure times out of ATQ 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 ATQ turns up on the rest of this site

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

One courier posting names ATQ as the airport a courier here flies from: Ludhiana.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ATQ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 13 destinations above.