GAU Guwahati

How deep the GAU board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GAU. This reads the same 26 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 17of the 26 destinations are flown by one airline
• 10destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 65.4%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GAU

Six airlines appear on the GAU board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 17 of the 26 destinations, 65.4 per cent of them, and on 8 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 52.9 of the 55.7 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 9 destinations. 1 of the 6 airlines at GAU appears on a single destination, 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 17 of the 26 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GAU 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 GAU than the destination count does.

How much of the GAU board is daily

Of the 26 destinations, 16 are flown at least once a day and 10 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GAU 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: GAU to Siliguri (IXB) 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 33.7 of the 55.7 departures a day, 60.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves GAU 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
Abu Dhabi AUH	the United Arab Emirates	Air India Express	1	3,706	the pair page
Dubai DXB	the United Arab Emirates	Air India Express	1	3,619	the pair page
Siliguri IXB	India	Starlight Airline	1	331	plan this
Deoghar DGH	India	IndiGo	2	525	plan this
Higleig HGI	South Sudan	Alliance Air	2	6,419	plan this
Singapore SIN	Singapore	Drukair	2	3,056	plan this
Tezu TEI	India	Alliance Air	2	495	plan this
Bangkok BKK	Thailand	Drukair	3	1,680	plan this
Pasighat IXT	India	Alliance Air	3	430	plan this
Paro PBH	Bhutan	Drukair	5	259	plan this

The ten destinations out of GAU 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 GAU

The desk holds the return direction for 13 of the 26 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into GAU runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Bangkok (BKK) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Singapore (SIN) files 0.43 a day back into GAU against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GAU

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

Where GAU 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.

The site publishes 6 airport pair pages that start or end at GAU, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Guwahati to New Delhi (DEL), Guwahati to Bangalore (BLR) and Guwahati to Chennai (MAA).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GAU already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 26 destinations above.