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IXR Ranchi
Birsa Munda Airport, India. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 11
- Countries reached
- 1
- Airlines
- 2
- Departures a day
- 22.1
Where you can fly from IXR
Every scheduled destination held for this airport, ordered by how often it is flown. Distances are great circle, computed from published coordinates.
| Destination | Country | Flights a day | Operated by | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Delhi DEL | India | 6.89 | IX, 6E | 1,008 | plan this |
| Bangalore BLR | India | 4.14 | IX, 6E | 1,381 | plan this |
| Kolkata CCU | India | 3.86 | 6E | 329 | plan this |
| Hyderabad HYD | India | 1.57 | 6E | 986 | plan this |
| Pune PNQ | India | 1.14 | 6E | 1,295 | plan this |
| Mumbai BOM | India | 1.06 | IX, 6E | 1,373 | plan this |
| Ahmedabad AMD | India | 0.86 | 6E | 1,297 | plan this |
| Patna PAT | India | 0.86 | 6E | 255 | plan this |
| Bhubaneswar BBI | India | 0.71 | 6E | plan this | |
| Chennai MAA | India | 0.71 | 6E | 1,270 | plan this |
| Vasco da Gama GOI | India | 0.29 | IX | 1,492 | plan this |
One connection away
160 airports are reachable from IXR with exactly one change, on top of the 11 nonstop. The ten below are the ones with the most frequency on the weaker of the two sectors, which is the leg that decides whether a same day connection holds. Computed from the scheduled network, not from a booking engine.
| Destination | Country | Best connection | Flights a day on the weaker leg | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Kochi COK | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Lucknow LKO | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| London LHR | the United Kingdom | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Nagpur NAG | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Indore IDR | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Bangkok BKK | Thailand | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Chandigarh IXC | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| Varanasi VNS | India | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
| GOX GOX | via DEL | 6.89 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from IXR is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
How deep the IXR board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from IXR. This reads the same 11 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.
- 8of the 11 destinations are flown by one airline
- 5destinations run less than once a day
- 2destinations have four or more departures a day
- 90.9%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at IXR
Two airlines appear on the IXR board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 10 of the 11 destinations, 90.9 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 21.8 of the 22.1 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 Air India Express on 4 destinations. 0 of the 2 airlines at IXR 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 10 of the 11 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an IXR 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 IXR than the destination count does.
How much of the IXR board is daily
Of the 11 destinations, 6 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the IXR board is flown about once a day.
An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: IXR to Vasco da Gama (GOI) is 2 a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.
The five busiest destinations carry 17.6 of the 22.1 departures a day, 79.7 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves IXR 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vasco da Gama GOI | India | Air India Express | 2 | 1,493 | plan this |
| Bhubaneswar BBI | India | IndiGo | 5 | 345 | plan this |
| Chennai MAA | India | IndiGo | 5 | 1,270 | plan this |
| Ahmedabad AMD | India | IndiGo | 6 | 1,297 | plan this |
| Patna PAT | India | IndiGo | 6 | 254 | plan this |
The five destinations out of IXR 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 IXR
The desk holds the return direction for 9 of the 11 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 9 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through IXR is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.
It runs the other way as well: Mumbai (BOM) files 1.7 a day back into IXR against 1.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.
The clock at IXR
IXR 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 IXR, 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 IXR and still make a departure the same day.
Where IXR 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.
Two courier postings name IXR as the airport a courier here flies from: Jamshedpur and Dhanbad.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with IXR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 11 destinations above.
Where this came from
- Destination network, airlines and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07.
- Airport names and coordinates: the OnBoard Courier airport reference list.
- Distances: great circle, computed from those coordinates. They are not flown distances and will read short against a real routing.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing on this page states or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment through IXR is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. We keep the Atlas because our own desk needs it when there are twenty minutes to find a routing, and we publish it because a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite, including by competing operators. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct the entry.
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