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KBL Kabul
Hamid Karzai International, AF. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 13
- Countries reached
- 8
- Airlines
- 5
- Departures a day
- 12.7
Where you can fly from KBL
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | 4.57 | FG, FZ, RQ | 1,687 | plan this |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | the United Arab Emirates | 2.16 | EY | 1,801 | plan this |
| New Delhi DEL | India | 1.2 | FG, RQ | 1,001 | plan this |
| Islamabad ISB | Pakistan | 1.14 | FG, RQ | 352 | plan this |
| Istanbul SAW | Turkiye | 1 | RQ | 3,547 | plan this |
| Istanbul IST | Turkiye | 0.73 | TK, FG | 3,593 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | 0.71 | RQ | 1,983 | plan this |
| Jeddah JED | Saudi Arabia | 0.46 | RQ, FG | 3,260 | plan this |
| Ankara ESB | Turkiye | 0.14 | FG | 3,237 | plan this |
| Kuwait City KWI | Kuwait | 0.14 | RQ | 2,086 | plan this |
| Riyadh RUH | Saudi Arabia | 0.14 | RQ | 2,414 | plan this |
| Ürümqi URC | China | 0.14 | FG | 1,878 | plan this |
| 0.14 | RQ | plan this |
One connection away
524 airports are reachable from KBL with exactly one change, on top of the 13 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow VKO | RU | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Amman AMM | JO | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Cairo CAI | Egypt | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Damascus DAM | SY | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Beirut BEY | LB | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Dammam DMM | Saudi Arabia | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Karachi KHI | Pakistan | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Manama BAH | Bahrain | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Muscat MCT | Oman | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
| Mumbai BOM | India | via DXB | 4.57 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from KBL is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
How deep the KBL board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from KBL. This reads the same 12 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.
- 7of the 12 destinations are flown by one airline
- 7destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 66.7%of the destinations name Kam Air, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at KBL
Five airlines appear on the KBL board and they do not hold it evenly. Kam Air is on 8 of the 12 destinations, 66.7 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 9.4 of the 12.5 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 Ariana Afghan Airlines on 7 destinations. 3 of the 5 airlines at KBL 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 8 of the 12 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a KBL sector is usually another Kam Air 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 KBL than the destination count does.
How much of the KBL board is daily
Of the 12 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the KBL board is flown 5.1 times a week.
An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: KBL to Ürümqi (URC) 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 10.1 of the 12.5 departures a day, 80.4 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic KBL is five sectors and a short tail, 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 those five is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankara ESB | Turkiye | Ariana Afghan Airlines | 1 | 3,238 | plan this |
| Kuwait City KWI | Kuwait | Kam Air | 1 | 2,087 | plan this |
| Riyadh RUH | Saudi Arabia | Kam Air | 1 | 2,414 | plan this |
| Ürümqi URC | China | Ariana Afghan Airlines | 1 | 1,878 | plan this |
| Doha DOH | Qatar | Kam Air | 5 | 1,982 | plan this |
The five destinations out of KBL 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 KBL
The desk holds the return direction for 12 of the 12 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into KBL runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Abu Dhabi (AUH) at 2.2 out a day against 1.1 back.
It runs the other way as well: Jeddah (JED) files 1.4 a day back into KBL against 0.46 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at KBL
KBL keeps Asia/Kabul time, half an hour ahead of Dubai all year.
When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 09:30 at KBL, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight and a half hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at KBL and still make a departure the same day.
Where KBL turns up on the rest of this site
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KBL already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 12 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through KBL is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
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