LKO Lucknow

How deep the LKO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from LKO. This reads the same 23 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 23 destinations are flown by one airline
• 8destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 78.3%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at LKO

Eight airlines appear on the LKO board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 18 of the 23 destinations, 78.3 per cent of them, and on 13 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 40 of the 46.1 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 6 destinations. 5 of the 8 airlines at LKO 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 18 of the 23 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an LKO 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 LKO than the destination count does.

How much of the LKO board is daily

Of the 23 destinations, 15 are flown at least once a day and 8 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the LKO 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: LKO to Mangalore (IXE) 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 26.6 of the 46.1 departures a day, 57.8 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves LKO 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
Mangalore IXE	India	Air India Express	1	1,657	plan this
Vasco da Gama GOI	India	IndiGo	3	1,461	plan this
Chennai MAA	India	IndiGo	5	1,533	the pair page
Dehradun DED	India	IndiGo	5	464	plan this
Jaipur JAI	India	IndiGo	5	504	plan this
Raipur RPR	India	IndiGo	5	627	plan this
Jeddah JED	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian Airlines	6	4,251	plan this
Patna PAT	India	IndiGo	6	439	plan this

The eight destinations out of LKO 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 LKO

The desk holds the return direction for 20 of the 23 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into LKO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Abu Dhabi (AUH) at 1.5 out a day against 0.43 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of LKO turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at LKO

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

Where LKO 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 9 airport pair pages that start or end at LKO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Lucknow to New Delhi (DEL), Lucknow to Bangalore (BLR) and Lucknow to Hyderabad (HYD).

Two courier postings name LKO as the airport a courier here flies from: Kanpur and Lucknow.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with LKO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 23 destinations above.