The sector is held by Air India Express and IndiGo.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CCU Kolkata to MAA Chennai
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, India, to Chennai International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 8 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,386 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 16m
- Door to door
- 9h 01m
What CCU to MAA looks like
The CCU to MAA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Kolkata CCU to Chennai MAA is a medium haul sector of 1,386 km by great circle, flown nonstop 8 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,386 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 16m.
Kolkata CCU is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 51 scheduled destinations and 142.9 departures a day. Chennai MAA has 58 destinations and 160.7 departures a day.
Kolkata and Chennai 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 CCU to MAA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCU to MAA | 8 | 56 | Air India Express, IndiGo |
| MAA to CCU | 8 | 56 | Air India Express, IndiGo |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air India Express and IndiGo, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 8 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 112 departures a week on CCU to MAA, 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 2h 16m block time on CCU to MAA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CCU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CCU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CCU to MAA in the air, estimated | 136 min | 6h 46m |
| Formalities at MAA | 90 min | 8h 16m |
| Delivery run in Chennai | 45 min | 9h 01m |
| Door to door | 541 min | 9h 01m |
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 CCU to MAA is 9h 01m.
A courier who leaves Kolkata at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chennai at about 11:16 local and at the door by 13:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chennai, the last useful departure from Kolkata is around 13:29 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 CCU to MAA.
| Connecting at | CCU to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visakhapatnam VTZ | 0.71 | 1.71 | 1,392 | 4h 03m |
| Ranchi IXR | 3.86 | 0.71 | 1,598 | 4h 06m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 6.43 | 10.14 | 1,715 | 4h 18m |
| Bangalore BLR | 13.86 | 15.14 | 1,815 | 4h 23m |
| Dhaka DAC | 2.86 | 1.86 | 1,856 | 4h 25m |
| Patna PAT | 2.14 | 0.71 | 1,965 | 4h 36m |
With 8 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.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Visakhapatnam VTZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through VTZ the routing covers 1,392 km against the 1,386 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 03m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Ranchi IXR at 4h 06m and Hyderabad HYD at 4h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Kolkata, Dhaka DAC is 239 km away by great circle and carries 49 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Kolkata to Chennai 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 CCU to MAA 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 CCU airport entry
- The MAA airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Chennai to Stuttgart
- The written lane, Dubai to Chennai
- The route calculator
More pairs through CCU and MAA: Delhi to Kolkata, Kolkata to Dubai, Bangalore to Kolkata, Mumbai to Kolkata, Abu Dhabi to Kolkata, Kolkata to Hyderabad, Kolkata to Dhaka, Kolkata to Hanoi.