The sector is held by Air India Express, Blue Bird Airways, IndiGo and Starlight Airline.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLR Bangalore to MAA Chennai
Kempegowda International, India, to Chennai International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 268 km
- Block, estimated
- 54 min
- Door to door
- 7h 39m
What BLR to MAA looks like
The BLR to MAA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangalore BLR to Chennai MAA is a short sector of 268 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 268 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 54 min.
Bangalore BLR is a large airport in the network held here, 96 scheduled destinations and 391.8 departures a day. Chennai MAA has 58 destinations and 160.7 departures a day.
Bangalore and Chennai keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 BLR to MAA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLR to MAA | 15.14 | 106 | Air India Express, Blue Bird Airways, IndiGo, Starlight Airline |
| MAA to BLR | 14.71 | 103 | Air India Express, IndiGo |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 15.1 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 209 departures a week on BLR to MAA, 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 54 min block time on BLR to MAA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BLR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BLR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BLR to MAA in the air, estimated | 54 min | 5h 24m |
| Formalities at MAA | 90 min | 6h 54m |
| Delivery run in Chennai | 45 min | 7h 39m |
| Door to door | 459 min | 7h 39m |
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 BLR to MAA is 7h 39m.
A courier who leaves Bangalore at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chennai at about 09:54 local and at the door by 12:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chennai, the last useful departure from Bangalore is around 14:51 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. 38 of them join BLR to MAA.
| Connecting at | BLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiruchirappalli TRZ | 3.86 | 6.86 | 586 | 2h 52m |
| Madurai IXM | 2.29 | 4.14 | 793 | 3h 10m |
| Kochi COK | 14 | 5.43 | 885 | 3h 18m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 18 | 10.14 | 962 | 3h 25m |
| Thiruvananthapuram TRV | 4.71 | 3.57 | 1,145 | 3h 41m |
| Goa GOI | 9 | 0.86 | 1,216 | 3h 48m |
With 15.1 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.
38 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tiruchirappalli TRZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.9 times a day.
Through TRZ the routing covers 586 km against the 268 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 52m 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 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Madurai IXM at 3h 10m and Kochi COK at 3h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 268 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 11m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
Plan Bangalore to Chennai 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 BLR to MAA 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 BLR airport entry
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- Hand carry into India
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- The written lane, Amsterdam to Bangalore
- The written lane, Dubai to Bangalore
- The route calculator
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