VNS Varanasi

How deep the VNS board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from VNS. This reads the same 12 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.

• 9of the 12 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 3destinations have four or more departures a day
• 83.3%of the destinations name IndiGo, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at VNS

Four airlines appear on the VNS board and they do not hold it evenly. IndiGo is on 10 of the 12 destinations, 83.3 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 27.6 of the 28.6 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 5 destinations. 1 of the 4 airlines at VNS appears on a single destination, 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 12 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a VNS 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 VNS than the destination count does.

How much of the VNS board is daily

Of the 12 destinations, 7 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 VNS 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: VNS to Bangkok (BKK) 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 23.1 of the 28.6 departures a day, 81 per cent of the whole board. On that arithmetic VNS 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
Bangkok BKK	Thailand	Air India Express	1	2,282	plan this
Bhubaneswar BBI	India	IndiGo	3	654	plan this
Chennai MAA	India	IndiGo	6	1,414	plan this
Ghaziabad HDO	India	IndiGo	6	653	plan this
Sharjah SHJ	the United Arab Emirates	Air India Express	6	2,742	plan this

The five destinations out of VNS 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 VNS

The desk holds the return direction for 10 of the 12 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into VNS runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Mumbai (BOM) at 6.9 out a day against 4.6 back.

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

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

Where VNS 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 VNS as the airport a courier here flies from: Varanasi.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with VNS already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 12 destinations above.