VKO Moscow

How deep the VKO board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from VKO. This reads the same 77 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.

• 50of the 77 destinations are flown by one airline
• 27destinations run less than once a day
• 12destinations have four or more departures a day
• 35.1%of the destinations name Pobeda, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at VKO

30 airlines appear on the VKO board and they do not hold it evenly. Pobeda is on 27 of the 77 destinations, 35.1 per cent of them, and on 10 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 99.7 of the 181.4 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 UTAir on 26 destinations. 13 of the 30 airlines at VKO 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 VKO: one airline on 35.1 per cent of the destinations and the other 64.9 per cent spread across 29 airlines. A cancellation inside the Pobeda network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 50 destinations Pobeda does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the VKO board is daily

Of the 77 destinations, 50 are flown at least once a day and 27 are not, 8 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the VKO 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: VKO to Vladikavkaz (OGZ) 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 64.6 of the 181.4 departures a day, 35.6 per cent of the whole board. The other 72 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at VKO usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Baghdad BGW	Iraq	I A W	1	2,541	plan this
El Alamein DBB	Egypt	Nesma Airlines	1	2,829	plan this
Khanabad KSQ	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways	1	2,820	plan this
Moscow SVO	Russia	Aeroflot	1	43	plan this
Nakhchivan NAJ	Azerbaijan	UTAir	1	1,922	plan this
Navoi NVI	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Airways	1	2,670	plan this
Tehran IKA	Iran	One Jet	1	2,480	plan this
Vladikavkaz OGZ	Russia	Pobeda	1	1,474	plan this
Dar es Salaam DAR	Tanzania	Air Tanzania	2	6,949	the pair page
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	Pobeda	2	3,711	plan this

The ten destinations out of VKO 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. 15 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from VKO

The desk holds the return direction for 21 of the 77 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into VKO runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) at 2.6 out a day against 1.7 back, Sochi (AER) at 3.7 out a day against 2.6 back and Istanbul (IST) at 10.3 out a day against 7.4 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of VKO turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 3 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.

The clock at VKO

VKO 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 VKO, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at VKO and still make a departure the same day.

Where VKO turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 8 airport pair pages that start or end at VKO, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Moscow to Antalya (AYT), Moscow to Saint-Petersburg (LED) and Moscow to Dubai (DXB).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with VKO already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 77 destinations above.