DEL Delhi

How deep the DEL board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DEL. This reads the same 133 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.

• 49of the 133 destinations are flown by one airline
• 29destinations run less than once a day
• 42destinations have four or more departures a day
• 60.9%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DEL

65 airlines appear on the DEL board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 81 of the 133 destinations, 60.9 per cent of them, and on 19 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 526 of the 607.8 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 70 destinations. 52 of the 65 airlines at DEL 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 81 of the 133 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DEL 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 DEL than the destination count does.

How much of the DEL board is daily

Of the 133 destinations, 104 are flown at least once a day and 29 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DEL board is flown about twice 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: DEL to Port Louis (MRU) 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 143.9 of the 607.8 departures a day, 23.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 128 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at DEL usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Manchester MAN	the United Kingdom	IndiGo	1	6,816	the pair page
Minsk MSQ	Belarus	Belavia	1	4,837	plan this
Namangan NMA	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways	1	1,470	plan this
Port Louis MRU	Mauritius	Air Mauritius	1	5,834	plan this
Bareilly BEK	India	IndiGo	2	230	plan this
Dushanbe DYU	Tajikistan	Somon Air	2	1,347	plan this
Phnom Penh KTI	Cambodia	Cambodia Angkor Air	2	3,464	plan this
Belgaum IXG	India	IndiGo	3	1,436	plan this
Bishkek BSZ	Kyrgyzstan	Cathay Dragon	3	1,629	plan this
Kannur CNN	India	IndiGo	3	1,858	plan this

The ten destinations out of DEL 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. 14 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DEL

The desk holds the return direction for 91 of the 133 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into DEL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Rome (FCO) at 2.9 out a day against 1.6 back, Vienna (VIE) at 1 out a day against 0.57 back and Athens (ATH) at 0.59 out a day against 0.43 back.

It runs the other way as well: Mumbai (BOM) files 51.5 a day back into DEL against 19.5 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DEL

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

The night at DEL

9 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 DEL that lands inside it leaves around 19:24, on a modelled block of 8h 36m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DEL that lands inside it leaves around 18:38, on a modelled block of 7h 52m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from DEL that lands inside it leaves around 19:06, on a modelled block of 8h 24m. Those three departure times out of DEL 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 DEL turns up on the rest of this site

DEL 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 DEL transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 55 airport pair pages that start or end at DEL, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Delhi to Bangalore (BLR), Delhi to Hyderabad (HYD) and Delhi to Kolkata (CCU).

Seven of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Delhi, Delhi to Abu Dhabi and Delhi to Frankfurt. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DEL written out.

Two courier postings name DEL as the airport a courier here flies from: Delhi and Meerut.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DEL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 133 destinations above.