The sector is held by Batik Air, Citilink, Lion Air and Sriwijaya Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
UPG Makassar to SUB Surabaya
Sultan Hasanuddin, Indonesia, to Juanda International, Indonesia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 791 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 40m
- Door to door
- 8h 25m
What UPG to SUB looks like
The UPG to SUB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Makassar UPG to Surabaya SUB is a short sector of 791 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 791 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 40m.
Makassar UPG is a smaller airport in the network held here, 35 scheduled destinations and 105.3 departures a day. Surabaya SUB has 39 destinations and 129.7 departures a day.
Surabaya is one hour behind of Makassar 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 UPG to SUB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPG to SUB | 13.71 | 96 | Batik Air, Citilink, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air |
| SUB to UPG | 13.43 | 94 | Batik Air, Citilink, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 13.7 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 190 departures a week on UPG to SUB, 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 40m block time on UPG to SUB. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to UPG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At UPG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| UPG to SUB in the air, estimated | 100 min | 6h 10m |
| Formalities at SUB | 90 min | 7h 40m |
| Delivery run in Surabaya | 45 min | 8h 25m |
| Door to door | 505 min | 8h 25m |
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 UPG to SUB is 8h 25m.
A courier who leaves Makassar at 09:00 local is on the ground in Surabaya at about 09:40 local and at the door by 11:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Surabaya, the last useful departure from Makassar is around 15:05 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. 6 of them join UPG to SUB.
| Connecting at | UPG to hub, flights a day | Hub to SUB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bali DPS | 5.86 | 13 | 937 | 3h 23m |
| Lombok LOP | 0.57 | 6.71 | 961 | 3h 25m |
| Jakarta CGK | 21.29 | 27.57 | 2,123 | 4h 51m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 1.71 | 7.86 | 3,831 | 7h 09m |
With 13.7 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.
6 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bali DPS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.9 times a day.
Through DPS the routing covers 937 km against the 791 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 23m 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 43m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Lombok LOP at 3h 25m and Jakarta CGK at 4h 51m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Makassar to Surabaya 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 UPG to SUB 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.
More pairs through UPG and SUB: Jakarta to Surabaya, Singapore to Surabaya, Surabaya to Bali, Kuala Lumpur to Surabaya, Jeddah to Surabaya, Jakarta to Makassar, Makassar to Bali.