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SXR Srinagar
Sheikh ul Alam Airport, India. Scheduled destination network as held on 2026-09-07.
- Destinations
- 10
- Countries reached
- 1
- Airlines
- 4
- Departures a day
- 23.6
Where you can fly from SXR
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 | 15.3 | AI, IX, 6E, SG | 642 | plan this |
| Jammu IXJ | India | 2.71 | IX, 6E, SG | plan this | |
| Chandigarh IXC | India | 1.57 | 6E | 415 | plan this |
| Amritsar ATQ | India | 0.86 | 6E | 254 | plan this |
| Bangalore BLR | India | 0.86 | IX | 2,331 | plan this |
| Mumbai NMI | India | 0.75 | 6E, AI | plan this | |
| Hyderabad HYD | India | 0.71 | 6E | 1,899 | plan this |
| Ahmedabad AMD | India | 0.43 | 6E | 1,231 | plan this |
| Leh IXL | India | 0.29 | AI | plan this | |
| 0.14 | IX | plan this |
One connection away
143 airports are reachable from SXR with exactly one change, on top of the 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai BOM | India | via DEL | 15.3 | plan this |
| Pune PNQ | India | via DEL | 15.3 | plan this |
| Kolkata CCU | India | via DEL | 15.3 | plan this |
| Chennai MAA | India | via DEL | 15.3 | plan this |
| Dubai DXB | the United Arab Emirates | via DEL | 14.72 | plan this |
| Patna PAT | India | via DEL | 14.23 | plan this |
| Guwahati GAU | India | via DEL | 12.71 | plan this |
| Lucknow LKO | India | via DEL | 12.26 | plan this |
| Kathmandu KTM | NP | via DEL | 11.71 | plan this |
| Indore IDR | India | via DEL | 10.58 | plan this |
Alternate airports within reach
Airports within 400 km that also carry scheduled traffic. When a departure from SXR is cancelled or nothing suitable leaves that night, these are the options a desk looks at before it accepts a lost day.
- Sialkot SKT166 km by great circle, 10 scheduled destinations
- Islamabad ISB186 km by great circle, 31 scheduled destinations
- Amritsar ATQ254 km by great circle, 13 scheduled destinations
- Lahore LHE277 km by great circle, 29 scheduled destinations
- Peshawar PEW301 km by great circle, 9 scheduled destinations
How deep the SXR board really is
The table above says where a courier can fly from SXR. This reads the same 9 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.
- 6of the 9 destinations are flown by one airline
- 6destinations run less than once a day
- 1destination has four or more departures a day
- 77.8%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here
Who holds the departures at SXR
Four airlines appear on the SXR board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 7 of the 9 destinations, 77.8 per cent of them, and on 4 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 22.3 of the 23.5 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 3 destinations. 0 of the 4 airlines at SXR 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 7 of the 9 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SXR 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 SXR than the destination count does.
How much of the SXR board is daily
Of the 9 destinations, 3 are flown at least once a day and 6 are not, though none of them drops to once a week or less. The median destination on the SXR board is flown 6 times a week.
An average of 0.29 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: SXR to Leh (IXL) 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 21.3 of the 23.5 departures a day, 90.7 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic SXR is five sectors and a short tail, 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 those five is planned around a single departure time.
| Destination | Country | The only airline on it | Flights a week | km | Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leh IXL | India | Air India | 2 | 256 | plan this |
| Ahmedabad AMD | India | IndiGo | 3 | 1,231 | plan this |
| Hyderabad HYD | India | IndiGo | 5 | 1,898 | plan this |
| Amritsar ATQ | India | IndiGo | 6 | 253 | plan this |
| Bangalore BLR | India | Air India Express | 6 | 2,331 | plan this |
The five destinations out of SXR 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 SXR
The desk holds the return direction for 6 of the 9 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into SXR runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is New Delhi (DEL) at 15.3 out a day against 10.6 back.
A return leg thinner than the outbound is the ordinary reason a same day round trip out of SXR turns into an overnight, and it is worth checking on each of those 1 sectors before the courier is committed rather than after.
The clock at SXR
SXR 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 SXR, 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 SXR and still make a departure the same day.
Where SXR 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.
One courier posting names SXR as the airport a courier here flies from: Srinagar.
To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SXR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 9 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 SXR 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.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes. If you fly often and want to carry, we are recruiting couriers.