SKT Sialkot

How deep the SKT board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SKT. This reads the same 10 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.

• 7of the 10 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 0destinations have four or more departures a day
• 30%of the destinations name Air Sial, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SKT

Ten airlines appear on the SKT board and they do not hold it evenly. Air Sial is on 3 of the 10 destinations, 30 per cent of them, and on 2 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 2.3 of the 8.7 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 Pakistan International Airlines on 2 destinations. 8 of the 10 airlines at SKT 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 SKT: one airline on 30 per cent of the destinations and the other 70 per cent spread across 9 airlines. A cancellation inside the Air Sial network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 7 destinations Air Sial does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the SKT board is daily

Of the 10 destinations, 5 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SKT 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: SKT to Medina (MED) 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 6.3 of the 8.7 departures a day, 72.1 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves SKT 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
Medina MED	Saudi Arabia	Air Sial	1	3,483	plan this
Ad Dammam DMM	Saudi Arabia	Pakistan International Airlines	2	2,465	plan this
Doha DOH	Qatar	Qatar Airways	5	2,352	plan this
Karachi KHI	Pakistan	M/S Fly Jinnah Services Pvt Ltd	6	1,101	plan this

The four destinations out of SKT 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 SKT

The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 10 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 10 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through SKT is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

The clock at SKT

SKT keeps Asia/Karachi time, an hour ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 10:00 at SKT, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at SKT and still make a departure the same day.

Where SKT turns up on the rest of this site

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

Two courier postings name SKT as the airport a courier here flies from: Lahore and Gujranwala.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SKT already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 10 destinations above.