The sector is held by S7 Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ALA Almaty to OVB Novosibirsk
Almaty International, Kazakhstan, to Novosibirsk Tolmachevo, Russia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,358 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 14m
- Door to door
- 8h 59m
What ALA to OVB looks like
The ALA to OVB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Almaty ALA to Novosibirsk OVB is a medium haul sector of 1,358 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,358 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 14m.
Almaty ALA is a large airport in the network held here, 86 scheduled destinations and 162 departures a day. Novosibirsk OVB has 79 destinations and 135.1 departures a day.
Novosibirsk is 2 hours ahead of Almaty all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 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 OVB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALA to OVB | 1.86 | 13 | S7 Airlines |
| OVB to ALA | 2 | 14 | S7 Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, S7 Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 27 departures a week on ALA to OVB, 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 14m block time on ALA to OVB. 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 OVB in the air, estimated | 134 min | 6h 44m |
| Formalities at OVB | 90 min | 8h 14m |
| Delivery run in Novosibirsk | 45 min | 8h 59m |
| Door to door | 539 min | 8h 59m |
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 OVB is 8h 59m.
A courier who leaves Almaty at 09:00 local is on the ground in Novosibirsk at about 13:14 local and at the door by 15:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Novosibirsk, the last useful departure from Almaty is around 11:31 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. 19 of them join ALA to OVB.
| Connecting at | ALA to hub, flights a day | Hub to OVB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astana NQZ | 29.43 | 1.86 | 1,819 | 4h 20m |
| Tashkent TAS | 6.57 | 1.71 | 2,495 | 5h 19m |
| Dushanbe DYU | 1.29 | 1.01 | 2,976 | 5h 48m |
| Ekaterinburg SVX | 1 | 4 | 3,247 | 6h 09m |
| Moscow VKO | 1.86 | 1.29 | 5,946 | 9h 22m |
| Moscow SVO | 2.43 | 5.86 | 5,922 | 9h 36m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ALA in the afternoon actually flies on.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Astana NQZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NQZ the routing covers 1,819 km against the 1,358 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 20m 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 06m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tashkent TAS at 5h 19m and Dushanbe DYU at 5h 48m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Almaty to Novosibirsk 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 OVB 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 OVB airport entry
- Hand carry into Kazakhstan
- Hand carry into Russia
- 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 OVB: Almaty to Istanbul, Almaty to Seoul, Almaty to Doha, Almaty to Delhi, Almaty to Abu Dhabi, Almaty to Baku, Zurich to Almaty, Almaty to Beijing.