The sector is held by Air Astana, Air India and Cathay Pacific.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ALA Almaty to DEL Delhi
Almaty International, Kazakhstan, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,644 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 36m
- Door to door
- 9h 21m
What ALA to DEL looks like
The ALA to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Almaty ALA to Delhi DEL is a medium haul sector of 1,644 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,644 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 36m.
Almaty ALA is a large airport in the network held here, 86 scheduled destinations and 162 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi carries about 3.8 times the departures of Almaty, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Delhi is 0.5 hours ahead of Almaty all year.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ALA to DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALA to DEL | 4.43 | 31 | Air Astana, Air India, Cathay Pacific |
| DEL to ALA | 2.29 | 16 | Air Astana |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: ALA to DEL runs 4.4 times a day, the return runs about twice a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 4.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 47 departures a week on ALA to DEL, 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 36m block time on ALA to DEL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ALA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ALA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ALA to DEL in the air, estimated | 156 min | 7h 06m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 8h 36m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 9h 21m |
| Door to door | 561 min | 9h 21m |
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 ALA to DEL is 9h 21m.
A courier who leaves Almaty at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 12:06 local and at the door by 14:21 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Almaty is around 12:39 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. 26 of them join ALA to DEL.
| Connecting at | ALA to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tashkent TAS | 6.57 | 2 | 2,258 | 5h 01m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.14 | 51.45 | 3,864 | 7h 11m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 1.14 | 3.86 | 4,965 | 8h 20m |
| Baku GYD | 3.71 | 1.14 | 5,041 | 8h 26m |
| Dubai DXB | 3.71 | 14.57 | 4,998 | 8h 53m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 0.57 | 4.71 | 5,207 | 8h 54m |
With 4.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tashkent TAS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through TAS the routing covers 2,258 km against the 1,644 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 01m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 25m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mumbai BOM at 7h 11m and Sharjah SHJ at 8h 20m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Almaty to Delhi 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 ALA to DEL 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 ALA airport entry
- The DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into Kazakhstan
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Almaty to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Almaty to Sharjah
- The written lane, Dubai to Almaty
- The route calculator
More pairs through ALA and DEL: Almaty to Istanbul, Almaty to Seoul, Almaty to Doha, Almaty to Abu Dhabi, Almaty to Baku, Zurich to Almaty, Almaty to Beijing, Almaty to Guangzhou.