KHI Karachi

How deep the KHI board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KHI. This reads the same 28 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.

• 16of the 28 destinations are flown by one airline
• 12destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 35.7%of the destinations name Pakistan International Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KHI

26 airlines appear on the KHI board and they do not hold it evenly. Pakistan International Airlines is on 10 of the 28 destinations, 35.7 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 38.7 of the 66.4 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 M/S Fly Jinnah Services Pvt Ltd on 9 destinations. 19 of the 26 airlines at KHI 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.

That is a middling concentration at KHI: one airline on 35.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 64.3 per cent spread across 25 airlines. A cancellation inside the Pakistan International Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 18 destinations Pakistan International Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the KHI board is daily

Of the 28 destinations, 16 are flown at least once a day and 12 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the KHI 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: KHI to Beijing (PEK) 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 40.7 of the 66.4 departures a day, 61.3 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves KHI 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
Beijing PEK	China	Air China	1	4,863	plan this
Kuwait City KWI	Kuwait	Jazeera Airways	2	1,958	the pair page
Tashkent TAS	Uzbekistan	Centrum Air	2	1,829	plan this
Baghdad BGW	Iraq	Fly Baghdad	3	2,407	plan this
Dhaka DAC	Bangladesh	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	3	2,354	the pair page
Kuala Lumpur KUL	Malaysia	Malindo Air	3	4,445	the pair page
Colombo CMB	Sri Lanka	SriLankan Airlines	4	2,391	plan this
Skardu KDU	Pakistan	Pakistan International Airlines	4	1,411	plan this
Addis Ababa ADD	Ethiopia	Ethiopian Airlines	5	3,485	the pair page
Bangkok BKK	Thailand	Thai Airways International	6	3,727	the pair page

The ten destinations out of KHI 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. 1 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from KHI

The desk holds the return direction for 25 of the 28 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into KHI runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Ad Dammam (DMM) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back, Istanbul (SAW) at 1.5 out a day against 1 back and Dhaka (DAC) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of KHI turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 4 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at KHI

KHI keeps Asia/Karachi time, an hour ahead of Dubai all year.

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

Where KHI turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 16 airport pair pages that start or end at KHI, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Karachi to Lahore (LHE), Karachi to Islamabad (ISB) and Karachi to Jeddah (JED).

Four of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Karachi, Karachi to Istanbul and Karachi to Sharjah. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at KHI written out.

One courier posting names KHI as the airport a courier here flies from: Karachi.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KHI already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 28 destinations above.