The sector is held by Air Astana.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NQZ Astana to TBS Tbilisi
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,268 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 24m
- Door to door
- 10h 09m
What NQZ to TBS looks like
The NQZ to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Astana NQZ to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 2,268 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,268 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 24m.
Astana NQZ is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 59 scheduled destinations and 115 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Tbilisi is one hour behind of Astana 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 NQZ to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NQZ to TBS | 0.71 | 5 | Air Astana |
| TBS to NQZ | 0.71 | 5 | Air Astana |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Astana, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on NQZ to TBS, 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 3h 24m block time on NQZ to TBS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to NQZ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NQZ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NQZ to TBS in the air, estimated | 204 min | 7h 54m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 9h 24m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 10h 09m |
| Door to door | 609 min | 10h 09m |
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 NQZ to TBS is 10h 09m.
A courier who leaves Astana at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 11:24 local and at the door by 13:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Astana is around 13:21 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. 22 of them join NQZ to TBS.
| Connecting at | NQZ to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baku GYD | 1.14 | 7.71 | 2,470 | 5h 14m |
| Ekaterinburg SVX | 1.14 | 1.29 | 2,966 | 5h 47m |
| Tashkent TAS | 3.29 | 1 | 3,120 | 5h 59m |
| Almaty ALA | 28.57 | 1.86 | 3,571 | 6h 34m |
| Moscow VKO | 1.14 | 6 | 3,950 | 7h 03m |
| Urumqi URC | 1.57 | 1.57 | 4,875 | 7h 59m |
22 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Baku GYD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through GYD the routing covers 2,470 km against the 2,268 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 14m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Ekaterinburg SVX at 5h 47m and Tashkent TAS at 5h 59m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tbilisi, Yerevan EVN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 82 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Astana to Tbilisi 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 NQZ to TBS 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 NQZ airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Kazakhstan
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through NQZ and TBS: Almaty to Astana, Dubai to Astana, Baku to Astana, Astana to Chennai, Astana to Moscow, Dubai to Tbilisi, Tbilisi to Tel Aviv, Tbilisi to Istanbul.