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IXM Madurai
Madurai Airport, India. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 8
- Countries reached
- 3
- Airlines
- 4
- Departures a day
- 10.7
Where you can fly from IXM
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chennai MAA | India | 4.14 | AI, IX, 6E | 418 | plan this |
| Bangalore BLR | India | 2.29 | 6E | 377 | plan this |
| Colombo CMB | LK | 1.14 | UL | 354 | plan this |
| Hyderabad HYD | India | 1.14 | 6E | 824 | plan this |
| Mumbai NMI | India | 0.86 | 6E | plan this | |
| New Delhi DEL | India | 0.86 | 6E | 2,086 | plan this |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | the United Arab Emirates | 0.14 | 6E | 2,965 | plan this |
| 0.14 | 6E | plan this |
One connection away
202 airports are reachable from IXM with exactly one change, on top of the 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kochi COK | India | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | Malaysia | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Kolkata CCU | India | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Singapore SIN | Singapore | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| CJB CJB | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this | |
| Tiruchirappalli TRZ | India | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Pune PNQ | India | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via MAA | 4.14 | plan this |
| Guwahati GAU | India | via MAA | 3.43 | plan this |
| Ahmedabad AMD | India | via MAA | 2.86 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from IXM is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Tiruchirappalli TRZ125 km by great circle, 12 scheduled destinations
- Kochi COK188 km by great circle, 29 scheduled destinations
- Thiruvananthapuram TRV198 km by great circle, 22 scheduled destinations
- Colombo CMB354 km by great circle, 45 scheduled destinations
- Bangalore BLR377 km by great circle, 96 scheduled destinations
How deep the IXM board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from IXM. This reads the same 7 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.
- 6of the 7 destinations are flown by one airline
- 3destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 85.7%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at IXM
Four airlines appear on the IXM board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 6 of the 7 destinations, 85.7 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 9.4 of the 10.6 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 1 destinations. 3 of the 4 airlines at IXM 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 6 of the 7 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an IXM 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 IXM than the destination count does.
How much of the IXM board is daily
Of the 7 destinations, 4 are flown at least once a day and 3 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the IXM 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: IXM to Abu Dhabi (AUH) 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 9.6 of the 10.6 departures a day, 90.5 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic IXM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi AUH | the United Arab Emirates | IndiGo | 1 | 2,965 | plan this |
| Mumbai NMI | India | IndiGo | 6 | 1,153 | plan this |
| New Delhi DEL | India | IndiGo | 6 | 2,085 | plan this |
The three destinations out of IXM 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 IXM
The desk holds the return direction for 6 of the 7 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 6 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through IXM is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
It runs the other way as well: Abu Dhabi (AUH) files 0.43 a day back into IXM against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at IXM
IXM 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 IXM, 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 IXM and still make a departure the same day.
Where IXM 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.
Two courier postings name IXM as the airport a courier here flies from: Madurai and Tirunelveli.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with IXM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 7 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 IXM 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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