The sector is held by Air India, Air India Express and IndiGo.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LKO Lucknow to DEL Delhi
Chaudhary Charan Singh, India, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 14.2 times a day
- Great circle
- 423 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 07m
- Door to door
- 7h 52m
What LKO to DEL looks like
The LKO to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lucknow LKO to Delhi DEL is a short sector of 423 km by great circle, flown nonstop 14.2 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 423 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 07m.
Lucknow LKO is a smaller airport in the network held here, 23 scheduled destinations and 46.1 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi carries about 13.2 times the departures of Lucknow, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Lucknow and Delhi 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 LKO to DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LKO to DEL | 14.2 | 99.4 | Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo |
| DEL to LKO | 12.26 | 85.8 | Air India, IndiGo, Air India Express |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 14.2 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 185.2 departures a week on LKO 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 07m block time on LKO 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 LKO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LKO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LKO to DEL in the air, estimated | 67 min | 5h 37m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 7h 07m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 7h 52m |
| Door to door | 472 min | 7h 52m |
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 LKO to DEL is 7h 52m.
A courier who leaves Lucknow at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 10:07 local and at the door by 12:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Lucknow is around 14:38 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. 19 of them join LKO to DEL.
| Connecting at | LKO to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaipur JAI | 0.71 | 6 | 736 | 3h 05m |
| Chandigarh IXC | 1.14 | 7.72 | 827 | 3h 13m |
| Patna PAT | 0.86 | 14.92 | 1,296 | 3h 45m |
| Indore IDR | 1.14 | 10.31 | 1,345 | 3h 59m |
| Ahmedabad AMD | 2 | 18.28 | 1,685 | 4h 18m |
| Kolkata CCU | 1.43 | 20.09 | 2,202 | 4h 49m |
With 14.2 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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Jaipur JAI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through JAI the routing covers 736 km against the 423 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 05m 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 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chandigarh IXC at 3h 13m and Patna PAT at 3h 45m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 423 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 6h 37m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
Plan Lucknow 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 LKO 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 LKO airport entry
- The DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The written lane, Delhi to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
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