The sector is held by SriLankan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGK Jakarta to CMB Colombo
Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia, to Bandaranaike International, Sri Lanka. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,318 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 30m
- Door to door
- 11h 15m
What CGK to CMB looks like
The CGK to CMB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jakarta CGK to Colombo CMB is a medium haul sector of 3,318 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,318 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 30m.
Jakarta CGK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 467.9 departures a day. Colombo CMB has 45 destinations and 93.2 departures a day.
Jakarta carries about 5 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 is 1.5 hours behind of Jakarta 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 CGK to CMB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGK to CMB | 1 | 7 | SriLankan Airlines |
| CMB to CGK | 1 | 7 | SriLankan Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, SriLankan Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 14 departures a week on CGK 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 4h 30m block time on CGK 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 CGK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGK to CMB in the air, estimated | 270 min | 9h 00m |
| Formalities at CMB | 90 min | 10h 30m |
| Delivery run in Colombo | 45 min | 11h 15m |
| Door to door | 675 min | 11h 15m |
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 CGK to CMB is 11h 15m.
A courier who leaves Jakarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Colombo at about 12:00 local and at the door by 14:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Colombo, the last useful departure from Jakarta is around 12:45 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. 21 of them join CGK to CMB.
| Connecting at | CGK to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 26.14 | 6 | 3,596 | 6h 51m |
| Singapore SIN | 33.14 | 4.57 | 3,632 | 6h 54m |
| Bangkok DMK | 2.71 | 0.86 | 4,710 | 8h 01m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 2.14 | 0.86 | 4,850 | 8h 11m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.71 | 3.43 | 4,689 | 8h 14m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1 | 3.57 | 6,169 | 9h 48m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CGK in the afternoon actually flies on.
21 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kuala Lumpur KUL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through KUL the routing covers 3,596 km against the 3,318 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 51m 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 21m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Singapore SIN at 6h 54m and Bangkok DMK at 8h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Jakarta 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 CGK 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.
- The CGK airport entry
- The CMB airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into Sri Lanka
- The written lane, Dubai to Jakarta
- The written lane, Singapore to Jakarta
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Colombo
- The route calculator
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