The sector is held by Air India Express, IndiGo and Starlight Airline.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLR Bangalore to LKO Lucknow
Kempegowda International, India, to Chaudhary Charan Singh, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,544 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 28m
- Door to door
- 9h 13m
What BLR to LKO looks like
The BLR to LKO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangalore BLR to Lucknow LKO is a medium haul sector of 1,544 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,544 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 28m.
Bangalore BLR is a large airport in the network held here, 96 scheduled destinations and 391.8 departures a day. Lucknow LKO has 23 destinations and 46.1 departures a day.
Bangalore carries about 8.5 times the departures of Lucknow, 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 Lucknow 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 LKO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLR to LKO | 7.29 | 51 | Air India Express, IndiGo, Starlight Airline |
| LKO to BLR | 6 | 42 | Air India Express, IndiGo |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 7.3 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 93 departures a week on BLR to LKO, 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 28m block time on BLR to LKO. 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 LKO in the air, estimated | 148 min | 6h 58m |
| Formalities at LKO | 90 min | 8h 28m |
| Delivery run in Lucknow | 45 min | 9h 13m |
| Door to door | 553 min | 9h 13m |
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 LKO is 9h 13m.
A courier who leaves Bangalore at 09:00 local is on the ground in Lucknow at about 11:28 local and at the door by 13:43 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Lucknow, the last useful departure from Bangalore is around 13:17 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. 20 of them join BLR to LKO.
| Connecting at | BLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to LKO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyderabad HYD | 18 | 2.29 | 1,544 | 4h 03m |
| Chennai MAA | 15.14 | 0.71 | 1,801 | 4h 21m |
| Indore IDR | 4 | 1.14 | 1,760 | 4h 23m |
| Pune PNQ | 22.29 | 2.14 | 1,879 | 4h 33m |
| Patna PAT | 5.14 | 0.86 | 2,019 | 4h 40m |
| Jaipur JAI | 5.57 | 0.71 | 2,032 | 4h 42m |
With 7.3 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.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Hyderabad HYD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through HYD the routing covers 1,544 km against the 1,544 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 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 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chennai MAA at 4h 21m and Indore IDR at 4h 23m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Bangalore to Lucknow 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 LKO 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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