The sector is held by IndiGo and SriLankan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CMB Colombo to HYD Hyderabad
Bandaranaike International, Sri Lanka, to Rajiv Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,129 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 57m
- Door to door
- 8h 42m
What CMB to HYD looks like
The CMB to HYD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Colombo CMB to Hyderabad HYD is a short sector of 1,129 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,129 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 57m.
Colombo CMB is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 45 scheduled destinations and 93.2 departures a day. Hyderabad HYD has 79 destinations and 245.2 departures a day.
Hyderabad carries about 2.6 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.
Colombo and Hyderabad 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 CMB to HYD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMB to HYD | 1.86 | 13 | IndiGo, SriLankan Airlines |
| HYD to CMB | 1.86 | 13 | 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 26 departures a week on CMB to HYD, 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 57m block time on CMB to HYD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CMB | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CMB before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CMB to HYD in the air, estimated | 117 min | 6h 27m |
| Formalities at HYD | 90 min | 7h 57m |
| Delivery run in Hyderabad | 45 min | 8h 42m |
| Door to door | 522 min | 8h 42m |
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 CMB to HYD is 8h 42m.
A courier who leaves Colombo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hyderabad at about 10:57 local and at the door by 13:12 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hyderabad, the last useful departure from Colombo is around 13:48 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. 25 of them join CMB to HYD.
| Connecting at | CMB to hub, flights a day | Hub to HYD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madurai IXM | 1.14 | 1.14 | 1,178 | 3h 34m |
| Tiruchirappalli TRZ | 1.29 | 1.14 | 1,139 | 3h 41m |
| Chennai MAA | 7.57 | 9.29 | 1,154 | 3h 42m |
| Bangalore BLR | 2.71 | 18 | 1,165 | 3h 43m |
| Kochi COK | 1.14 | 4.43 | 1,323 | 3h 48m |
| Thiruvananthapuram TRV | 0.57 | 3.71 | 1,343 | 3h 48m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CMB in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Madurai IXM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through IXM the routing covers 1,178 km against the 1,129 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 34m 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 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tiruchirappalli TRZ at 3h 41m and Chennai MAA at 3h 42m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Colombo to Hyderabad 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 CMB to HYD 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 CMB airport entry
- The HYD airport entry
- Hand carry into Sri Lanka
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Colombo
- The written lane, Colombo to Sharjah
- The written lane, Dubai to Colombo
- The route calculator
More pairs through CMB and HYD: Singapore to Colombo, Colombo to Doha, Kuala Lumpur to Colombo, Frankfurt to Colombo, Colombo to Delhi, Colombo to Kuwait City, Colombo to Chennai, Bangkok to Colombo.