BOM Mumbai

How deep the BOM board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BOM. This reads the same 106 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, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 46of the 106 destinations are flown by one airline
• 39destinations run less than once a day
• 24destinations have four or more departures a day
• 68.9%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BOM

52 airlines appear on the BOM board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 73 of the 106 destinations, 68.9 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 338.9 of the 372.3 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 42 destinations. 41 of the 52 airlines at BOM 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 73 of the 106 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BOM 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 BOM than the destination count does.

How much of the BOM board is daily

Of the 106 destinations, 67 are flown at least once a day and 39 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BOM 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: BOM to Tehran (IKA) 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 125.5 of the 372.3 departures a day, 33.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 101 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at BOM usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Belgaum IXG	India	Shuttle America	1	404	plan this
Manchester MAN	the United Kingdom	IndiGo	1	7,337	the pair page
Solapur SSE	India	Shuttle America	1	362	plan this
Tehran IKA	Iran	Mahan Air	1	2,799	plan this
Aden ADE	Yemen	Yemenia	2	3,053	plan this
Deoghar DGH	India	IndiGo	2	1,547	plan this
Mumbai NMI	India	Air India Express	2	23	plan this
New York JFK	the United States	Air India	2	12,532	the pair page
Porbandar PBD	India	Alliance Air	2	439	plan this
Rajahmundry RJA	India	IndiGo	2	971	plan this

The ten destinations out of BOM 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. 28 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BOM

The desk holds the return direction for 56 of the 106 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 19 of them the return into BOM runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Riyadh (RUH) at 3.7 out a day against 1.1 back, New Delhi (DEL) at 51.5 out a day against 19.5 back and Muscat (MCT) at 4.3 out a day against 1.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: Bangalore (BLR) files 40 a day back into BOM against 29.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BOM

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

The night at BOM

7 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from BOM that lands inside it leaves around 18:49, on a modelled block of 9h 11m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BOM that lands inside it leaves around 17:44, on a modelled block of 8h 46m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BOM that lands inside it leaves around 18:05, on a modelled block of 8h 25m. Those three departure times out of BOM are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where BOM turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 48 airport pair pages that start or end at BOM, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Mumbai to New Delhi (DEL), Mumbai to Bangalore (BLR) and Mumbai to Chennai (MAA).

Eleven of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Mumbai, Doha to Mumbai and Dubai to Mumbai. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BOM written out.

Four courier postings name BOM as the airport a courier here flies from: Pune, Nashik and Kalyān.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BOM already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 106 destinations above.