The sector is held by Air India Express, IndiGo and Starlight Airline.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLR Bangalore to HKT Phuket
Kempegowda International, India, to Phuket International, Thailand. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,321 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 28m
- Door to door
- 10h 13m
What BLR to HKT looks like
The BLR to HKT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangalore BLR to Phuket HKT is a medium haul sector of 2,321 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,321 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 28m.
Bangalore BLR is a large airport in the network held here, 96 scheduled destinations and 391.8 departures a day. Phuket HKT has 49 destinations and 131 departures a day.
Bangalore carries about 3 times the departures of Phuket, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Phuket is 1.5 hours ahead of Bangalore all year.
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 HKT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLR to HKT | 3.14 | 22 | Air India Express, IndiGo, Starlight Airline |
| HKT to BLR | 2.43 | 17 | Air India Express, IndiGo, Starlight Airline |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 3.1 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 39 departures a week on BLR to HKT, 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 28m block time on BLR to HKT. 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 HKT in the air, estimated | 208 min | 7h 58m |
| Formalities at HKT | 90 min | 9h 28m |
| Delivery run in Phuket | 45 min | 10h 13m |
| Door to door | 613 min | 10h 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 HKT is 10h 13m.
A courier who leaves Bangalore at 09:00 local is on the ground in Phuket at about 13:58 local and at the door by 16:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Phuket, the last useful departure from Bangalore is around 10:47 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. 18 of them join BLR to HKT.
| Connecting at | BLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to HKT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok DMK | 0.71 | 21.57 | 3,168 | 6h 11m |
| Bangkok BKK | 3 | 25.86 | 3,166 | 6h 26m |
| Kolkata CCU | 15.71 | 0.57 | 3,477 | 6h 27m |
| Mumbai BOM | 40 | 1.71 | 3,837 | 6h 56m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 4.14 | 8.14 | 3,589 | 6h 58m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 0.71 | 1.86 | 4,120 | 7h 02m |
With 3.1 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.
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangkok DMK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through DMK the routing covers 3,168 km against the 2,321 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 11m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 43m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Bangkok BKK at 6h 26m and Kolkata CCU at 6h 27m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Bangalore to Phuket 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 HKT 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
- The HKT airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into Thailand
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangalore
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Bangalore
- The written lane, Dubai to Bangalore
- The route calculator
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