OVB Novosibirsk

How deep the OVB board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from OVB. This reads the same 79 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.

• 52of the 79 destinations are flown by one airline
• 27destinations run less than once a day
• 6destinations have four or more departures a day
• 84.8%of the destinations name S7 Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at OVB

28 airlines appear on the OVB board and they do not hold it evenly. S7 Airlines is on 67 of the 79 destinations, 84.8 per cent of them, and on 44 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 122.5 of the 135.1 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 Aeroflot on 8 destinations. 15 of the 28 airlines at OVB 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 67 of the 79 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an OVB sector is usually another S7 Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for OVB, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the OVB board is daily

Of the 79 destinations, 52 are flown at least once a day and 27 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the OVB 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: OVB to Qaraghandy (KGF) 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 30.2 of the 135.1 departures a day, 22.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 74 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at OVB usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Cheboksary CSY	Russia	S7 Airlines	1	2,199	plan this
Qaraghandy KGF	Kazakhstan	S7 Airlines	1	867	plan this
Batumi BUS	Georgia	Red Wings	2	3,319	plan this
Pevek PWE	Russia	S7 Airlines	2	4,349	plan this
Saratov GSV	Russia	S7 Airlines	2	2,420	plan this
Shymkent CIT	Kazakhstan	SCAT Airlines	2	1,701	plan this
Tbilisi TBS	Georgia	Georgian Airways	2	3,105	the pair page
Tobolsk RMZ	Russia	UVT Aero	2	938	plan this
Xianyang XIY	China	S7 Airlines	2	3,044	plan this
Bangkok BKK	Thailand	Aeroflot	3	4,856	plan this

The ten destinations out of OVB 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. 13 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from OVB

The desk holds the return direction for 22 of the 79 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into OVB runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Bangkok (BKK) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back, Phuket (HKT) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Shanghai (PVG) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of OVB 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 OVB

OVB keeps Asia/Novosibirsk time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 12:00 at OVB, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at OVB until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where OVB turns up on the rest of this site

OVB 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 OVB transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 7 airport pair pages that start or end at OVB, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Novosibirsk to Moscow (DME), Novosibirsk to Moscow (SVO) and Novosibirsk to Saint-Petersburg (LED).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with OVB already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 79 destinations above.