The sector is held by Air India, IndiGo and Nepal Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KTM Kathmandu to DEL Delhi
Tribhuvan International, Nepal, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 12 times a day
- Great circle
- 815 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 32m
- Door to door
- 8h 17m
What KTM to DEL looks like
The KTM to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Kathmandu KTM to Delhi DEL is a short sector of 815 km by great circle, flown nonstop 12 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 815 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 32m.
Kathmandu KTM is a smaller airport in the network held here, 35 scheduled destinations and 100.6 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi carries about 6 times the departures of Kathmandu, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Delhi is 0.2 hours behind of Kathmandu 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 KTM to DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KTM to DEL | 12 | 84 | Air India, IndiGo, Nepal Airlines |
| DEL to KTM | 11.71 | 82 | Air India, IndiGo, Nepal Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 12 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 166 departures a week on KTM to DEL, 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 32m block time on KTM to DEL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to KTM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KTM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KTM to DEL in the air, estimated | 92 min | 6h 02m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 7h 32m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 8h 17m |
| Door to door | 497 min | 8h 17m |
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 KTM to DEL is 8h 17m.
A courier who leaves Kathmandu at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 10:17 local and at the door by 12:32 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Kathmandu is around 14:28 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. 17 of them join KTM to DEL.
| Connecting at | KTM to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhaka DAC | 1.43 | 2.29 | 2,087 | 4h 47m |
| Colombo CMB | 0.57 | 4.43 | 4,749 | 8h 04m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.29 | 3.86 | 5,141 | 8h 34m |
| Bangkok BKK | 2.57 | 10.14 | 5,179 | 8h 52m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 1.14 | 4.71 | 5,358 | 8h 52m |
| Dubai DXB | 5.86 | 14.57 | 5,175 | 9h 06m |
With 12 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.
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dhaka DAC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DAC the routing covers 2,087 km against the 815 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 47m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 15m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Colombo CMB at 8h 04m and Sharjah SHJ at 8h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Kathmandu to Delhi 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 KTM to DEL 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 KTM airport entry
- The DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into Nepal
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Sharjah to Kathmandu
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The route calculator
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