MAA Chennai

How deep the MAA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MAA. This reads the same 58 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.

• 40of the 58 destinations are flown by one airline
• 19destinations run less than once a day
• 14destinations have four or more departures a day
• 77.6%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MAA

30 airlines appear on the MAA board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 45 of the 58 destinations, 77.6 per cent of them, and on 28 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 149.4 of the 160.7 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 Air India Express on 7 destinations. 25 of the 30 airlines at MAA 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 45 of the 58 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an MAA 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 MAA than the destination count does.

How much of the MAA board is daily

Of the 58 destinations, 39 are flown at least once a day and 19 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MAA 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: MAA to Srinagar (SXR) 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 58.1 of the 160.7 departures a day, 36.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 53 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at MAA usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Port Louis MRU	Mauritius	Air Mauritius	1	4,456	plan this
Srinagar SXR	India	Air India Express	1	2,398	plan this
Bandar Seri Begawan BWN	Brunei	Royal Brunei Airlines	2	3,916	plan this
Yangon RGN	Myanmar	Myanmar Airways International	2	1,769	the pair page
Raipur RPR	India	IndiGo	3	926	plan this
St Denis RUN	Réunion	IndiGo	3	4,631	plan this
Addis Ababa ADD	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines	4	4,533	the pair page
Ghaziabad HDO	India	IndiGo	4	1,771	plan this
Penang PEN	Malaysia	IndiGo	4	2,365	plan this
Chandigarh IXC	India	IndiGo	5	1,997	plan this

The ten destinations out of MAA 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. 9 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MAA

The desk holds the return direction for 43 of the 58 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 43 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through MAA is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Trivandrum (TRV) files 3.6 a day back into MAA against 2.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MAA

MAA 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 MAA, 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 MAA and still make a departure the same day.

The night at MAA

2 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 (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from MAA that lands inside it leaves around 17:35, on a modelled block of 10h 25m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from MAA that lands inside it leaves around 16:51, on a modelled block of 9h 39m. Those two departure times out of MAA 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 MAA turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 26 airport pair pages that start or end at MAA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Chennai to New Delhi (DEL), Chennai to Bangalore (BLR) and Chennai to Hyderabad (HYD).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Chennai to Stuttgart and Dubai to Chennai. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at MAA written out.

One courier posting names MAA as the airport a courier here flies from: Chennai.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MAA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 58 destinations above.