The sector is held by Eurowings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGN Cologne to TBS Tbilisi
Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,042 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 10m
- Door to door
- 10h 55m
What CGN to TBS looks like
The CGN to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Cologne CGN to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 3,042 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,042 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 10m.
Cologne CGN is a major hub in the network held here, 154 scheduled destinations and 168.6 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Tbilisi runs 3 hours ahead of Cologne in January and 2 hours 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 CGN to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGN to TBS | 0.29 | 2 | Eurowings |
| TBS to CGN | 0.29 | 2 | Eurowings |
One carrier holds the sector, Eurowings, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on CGN 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 4h 10m block time on CGN 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 CGN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGN to TBS in the air, estimated | 250 min | 8h 40m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 10h 10m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 10h 55m |
| Door to door | 655 min | 10h 55m |
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 CGN to TBS is 10h 55m.
A courier who leaves Cologne at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 16:10 local and at the door by 18:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Cologne is around 08:35 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. 24 of them join CGN to TBS.
| Connecting at | CGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 0.57 | 3,042 | 6h 14m |
| Vienna VIE | 3.29 | 1 | 3,079 | 6h 20m |
| Istanbul SAW | 7.29 | 5.29 | 3,338 | 6h 31m |
| Munich MUC | 6 | 1.14 | 3,124 | 6h 35m |
| Istanbul IST | 4.29 | 4.71 | 3,317 | 6h 44m |
| Bergamo BGY | 2 | 0.57 | 3,454 | 6h 47m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Prague PRG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through PRG the routing covers 3,042 km against the 3,042 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 14m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 04m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vienna VIE at 6h 20m and Istanbul SAW at 6h 31m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Cologne, Dusseldorf DUS is 54 km away by great circle and carries 176 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CGN or TBS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Ford, Dearborn and CologneAssembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
Plan Cologne 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 CGN 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.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The CGN airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Germany
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGN and TBS: Berlin to Cologne, Manchester to Cologne, Cologne to Derby and Nottingham, Cologne to Prague, Stuttgart to Cologne, Cologne to Lisbon, Cologne to Dusseldorf, Cologne to Stockholm.