The sector is held by Air Arabia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AMD Ahmedabad to SHJ Sharjah
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India, to Sharjah International, the United Arab Emirates. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,752 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 44m
- Door to door
- 9h 29m
What AMD to SHJ looks like
The AMD to SHJ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Ahmedabad AMD to Sharjah SHJ is a medium haul sector of 1,752 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,752 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 44m.
Ahmedabad AMD is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 44 scheduled destinations and 95.4 departures a day. Sharjah SHJ has 81 destinations and 175.9 departures a day.
Sharjah is 1.5 hours behind of Ahmedabad all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AMD to SHJ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD to SHJ | 1.14 | 8 | Air Arabia |
| SHJ to AMD | 1.14 | 8 | Air Arabia |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Arabia, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on AMD to SHJ, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 44m block time on AMD to SHJ. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AMD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AMD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AMD to SHJ in the air, estimated | 164 min | 7h 14m |
| Formalities at SHJ | 90 min | 8h 44m |
| Delivery run in Sharjah | 45 min | 9h 29m |
| Door to door | 569 min | 9h 29m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AMD to SHJ is 9h 29m.
A courier who leaves Ahmedabad at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sharjah at about 10:14 local and at the door by 12:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sharjah, the last useful departure from Ahmedabad is around 14:31 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 18 of them join AMD to SHJ.
| Connecting at | AMD to hub, flights a day | Hub to SHJ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai BOM | 7.82 | 2.57 | 2,358 | 5h 21m |
| Jaipur JAI | 3.43 | 1.14 | 2,558 | 5h 22m |
| Doha DOH | 1.14 | 14.14 | 2,537 | 5h 34m |
| Delhi DEL | 18.28 | 3.43 | 2,924 | 6h 08m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 1.43 | 1.14 | 3,411 | 6h 21m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 4.43 | 2.29 | 3,422 | 6h 22m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at AMD in the afternoon actually flies on.
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Mumbai BOM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through BOM the routing covers 2,358 km against the 1,752 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 21m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 37m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Jaipur JAI at 5h 22m and Doha DOH at 5h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Sharjah, Dubai DXB is 18 km away by great circle and carries 221 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Ahmedabad to Sharjah yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says 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 is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AMD to SHJ in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AMD airport entry
- The SHJ airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into the United Arab Emirates
- The written lane, Almaty to Sharjah
- The written lane, Cairo to Sharjah
- The written lane, Colombo to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through AMD and SHJ: Ahmedabad to Dubai, Delhi to Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad to Abu Dhabi, Mumbai to Ahmedabad, Bangalore to Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad to Jeddah, Ahmedabad to Hyderabad, Ahmedabad to Kuwait City.