SVO Moscow

How deep the SVO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SVO. This reads the same 130 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.

• 83of the 130 destinations are flown by one airline
• 39destinations run less than once a day
• 37destinations have four or more departures a day
• 63.1%of the destinations name Aeroflot, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SVO

37 airlines appear on the SVO board and they do not hold it evenly. Aeroflot is on 82 of the 130 destinations, 63.1 per cent of them, and on 38 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 440.6 of the 490.7 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 Rossiya Airlines on 33 destinations. 18 of the 37 airlines at SVO 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 82 of the 130 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SVO sector is usually another Aeroflot 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 SVO than the destination count does.

How much of the SVO board is daily

Of the 130 destinations, 91 are flown at least once a day and 39 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SVO board is flown about twice 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: SVO to Tbilisi (TBS) 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 114.7 of the 490.7 departures a day, 23.4 per cent of the whole board. The other 125 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at SVO usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Batumi BUS	Georgia	Red Wings	1	1,625	plan this
Cartago CRC	Colombia	Aeroflot	1	10,983	plan this
Hangzhou HGH	China	Beijing Capital Airlines	1	6,847	plan this
Kabul KBL	Afghanistan	Ariana Afghan Airlines	1	3,389	plan this
Moscow VKO	Russia	Pobeda	1	43	plan this
Pyongyang-si FNJ	North Korea	Nordwind Airlines	1	6,394	plan this
Tbilisi TBS	Georgia	Shirak Avia	1	1,681	the pair page
Chongqing CKG	China	Tianjin Airlines	2	6,040	plan this
Damascus DAM	Syria	Syrian Air	2	2,510	plan this
Gomel GME	Belarus	Belavia	2	565	plan this

The ten destinations out of SVO 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. 29 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SVO

The desk holds the return direction for 49 of the 130 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On seven of them the return into SVO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Saint-Petersburg (LED) at 30 out a day against 10.4 back, Hanoi (HAN) at 0.71 out a day against 0.43 back and Istanbul (IST) at 8.6 out a day against 5.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Hangzhou (HGH) files 0.43 a day back into SVO against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SVO

SVO keeps Europe/Moscow time, an hour behind Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at SVO, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at SVO and still make a departure the same day.

Where SVO turns up on the rest of this site

SVO carries two other pages on this site as well: the Russia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the SVO transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 22 airport pair pages that start or end at SVO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Moscow to Saint-Petersburg (LED), Moscow to Antalya (AYT) and Moscow to Ekaterinburg (SVX).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SVO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 130 destinations above.