The sector is held by Garuda Indonesia and Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGK Jakarta to MED Medina
Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia, to Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 8,001 km
- Block, estimated
- 10h 08m
- Door to door
- 16h 53m
What CGK to MED looks like
The CGK to MED sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jakarta CGK to Medina MED is an ultra long sector of 8,001 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 8,001 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 10h 08m.
Jakarta CGK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 467.9 departures a day. Medina MED has 65 destinations and 107.5 departures a day.
Jakarta carries about 4.4 times the departures of Medina, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Medina is 4 hours behind of Jakarta all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 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 MED from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGK to MED | 1.43 | 10 | Garuda Indonesia, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
| MED to CGK | 1.14 | 8 | Garuda Indonesia, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Garuda Indonesia and Saudi Arabian Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 18 departures a week on CGK to MED, 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 10h 08m block time on CGK to MED. 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 MED in the air, estimated | 608 min | 14h 38m |
| Formalities at MED | 90 min | 16h 08m |
| Delivery run in Medina | 45 min | 16h 53m |
| Door to door | 1,013 min | 16h 53m |
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 MED is 16h 53m.
A courier who leaves Jakarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Medina at about 15:08 local and at the door by 17:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Medina, the last useful departure from Jakarta is around 09:37 local.
At 16h 53m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 10 of them join CGK to MED.
| Connecting at | CGK to hub, flights a day | Hub to MED, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscat MCT | 1 | 2.14 | 8,089 | 11h 53m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1 | 0.86 | 8,111 | 12h 02m |
| Doha DOH | 3 | 1.57 | 8,097 | 12h 05m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 2.29 | 1.14 | 8,087 | 12h 06m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 26.14 | 1.57 | 8,189 | 12h 12m |
| Jeddah JED | 6 | 4.57 | 8,295 | 12h 20m |
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.
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Muscat MCT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MCT the routing covers 8,089 km against the 8,001 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 53m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mumbai BOM at 12h 02m and Doha DOH at 12h 05m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Jakarta to Medina 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 MED 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 MED airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- The written lane, Dubai to Jakarta
- The written lane, Singapore to Jakarta
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGK and MED: Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, Jakarta to Bali, Jakarta to Jeddah, Seoul to Jakarta, Jakarta to Abu Dhabi, Taipei to Jakarta, Jakarta to Doha, Bangkok to Jakarta.