The sector is held by Aegean Airlines and Sky Express.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ATH Athens to TBS Tbilisi
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos, Greece, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,837 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 51m
- Door to door
- 9h 36m
What ATH to TBS looks like
The ATH to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Athens ATH to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 1,837 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,837 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 51m.
Athens ATH is a major hub in the network held here, 172 scheduled destinations and 472 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Athens carries about 5.6 times the departures of Tbilisi, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tbilisi runs 2 hours ahead of Athens in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on ATH to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATH to TBS | 1.86 | 13 | Aegean Airlines, Sky Express |
| TBS to ATH | 1.86 | 13 | Aegean Airlines, Sky Express |
Two carriers hold the sector, Aegean Airlines and Sky Express, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 26 departures a week on ATH 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 2h 51m block time on ATH 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 ATH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ATH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ATH to TBS in the air, estimated | 171 min | 7h 21m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 8h 51m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 9h 36m |
| Door to door | 576 min | 9h 36m |
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 ATH to TBS is 9h 36m.
A courier who leaves Athens at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 13:51 local and at the door by 16:06 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Athens is around 10:54 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. 37 of them join ATH to TBS.
| Connecting at | ATH to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yerevan EVN | 1.71 | 1 | 1,955 | 4h 32m |
| Istanbul SAW | 1.57 | 5.29 | 1,874 | 4h 45m |
| Larnaca LCA | 18.43 | 1.14 | 2,173 | 4h 46m |
| Istanbul IST | 9.86 | 4.71 | 1,903 | 5h 02m |
| Tel Aviv TLV | 16.64 | 5 | 2,590 | 5h 33m |
| Belgrade BEG | 3.29 | 0.71 | 2,842 | 5h 53m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at ATH in the afternoon actually flies on.
37 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Yerevan EVN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through EVN the routing covers 1,955 km against the 1,837 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 32m 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 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Istanbul SAW at 4h 45m and Larnaca LCA at 4h 46m 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 Athens 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 ATH 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.
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- The ATH airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Greece
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Cairo to Athens
- The written lane, Dubai to Athens
- The written lane, Sharjah to Athens
- The route calculator
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