PNQ Pune

How deep the PNQ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PNQ. This reads the same 34 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.

• 18of the 34 destinations are flown by one airline
• 7destinations run less than once a day
• 7destinations have four or more departures a day
• 82.4%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PNQ

Ten airlines appear on the PNQ board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 28 of the 34 destinations, 82.4 per cent of them, and on 14 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 117.7 of the 124.4 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 Air India Express on 13 destinations. 3 of the 10 airlines at PNQ 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 28 of the 34 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PNQ 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 PNQ than the destination count does.

How much of the PNQ board is daily

Of the 34 destinations, 27 are flown at least once a day and 7 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the PNQ board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.43 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: PNQ to Vadodara (BDQ) is 3 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 74.8 of the 124.4 departures a day, 60.2 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves PNQ is aimed at those five places, 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 them 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	Air India Express	3	2,094	the pair page
Raipur RPR	India	IndiGo	3	867	plan this
Vadodara BDQ	India	IndiGo	3	424	plan this
Dehradun DED	India	IndiGo	5	1,361	plan this
Hubli HBX	India	IndiGo	5	379	plan this
Rajkot HSR	India	IndiGo	5	518	plan this
Siliguri IXB	India	Air India Express	6	1,729	plan this

The seven destinations out of PNQ 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 PNQ

The desk holds the return direction for 24 of the 34 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 24 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through PNQ is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Dubai (DXB) files 2 a day back into PNQ against 1.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PNQ

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

Where PNQ 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.

The site publishes 8 airport pair pages that start or end at PNQ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Pune to New Delhi (DEL), Pune to Bangalore (BLR) and Pune to Hyderabad (HYD).

Two courier postings name PNQ as the airport a courier here flies from: Pune and Kalyān.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PNQ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 34 destinations above.