The sector is held by IndiGo and SriLankan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLR Bangalore to CMB Colombo
Kempegowda International, India, to Bandaranaike International, Sri Lanka. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 710 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 33m
- Door to door
- 8h 18m
What BLR to CMB looks like
The BLR to CMB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangalore BLR to Colombo CMB is a short sector of 710 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 710 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 33m.
Bangalore BLR is a large airport in the network held here, 96 scheduled destinations and 391.8 departures a day. Colombo CMB has 45 destinations and 93.2 departures a day.
Bangalore carries about 4.2 times the departures of Colombo, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Bangalore and Colombo 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 CMB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLR to CMB | 2.71 | 19 | IndiGo, SriLankan Airlines |
| CMB to BLR | 2.71 | 19 | IndiGo, SriLankan Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, IndiGo and SriLankan Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 37.9 departures a week on BLR to CMB, 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 1h 33m block time on BLR to CMB. 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 CMB in the air, estimated | 93 min | 6h 03m |
| Formalities at CMB | 90 min | 7h 33m |
| Delivery run in Colombo | 45 min | 8h 18m |
| Door to door | 498 min | 8h 18m |
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 CMB is 8h 18m.
A courier who leaves Bangalore at 09:00 local is on the ground in Colombo at about 10:33 local and at the door by 12:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Colombo, the last useful departure from Bangalore is around 14:12 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. 30 of them join BLR to CMB.
| Connecting at | BLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tiruchirappalli TRZ | 3.86 | 1.29 | 711 | 3h 03m |
| Madurai IXM | 2.29 | 1.14 | 731 | 3h 04m |
| Kochi COK | 14 | 1.14 | 873 | 3h 17m |
| Thiruvananthapuram TRV | 4.71 | 0.57 | 888 | 3h 19m |
| Chennai MAA | 15.14 | 7.57 | 915 | 3h 21m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 18 | 1.86 | 1,584 | 4h 07m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BLR in the afternoon actually flies on.
30 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 about once a day.
Through TRZ the routing covers 711 km against the 710 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 03m 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 30m 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 04m and Kochi COK at 3h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Bangalore to Colombo 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 CMB 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.
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