The sector is held by Gulf Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BAH Manama to MAA Chennai
Bahrain International, Bahrain, to Chennai International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 3,415 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 37m
- Door to door
- 11h 22m
What BAH to MAA looks like
The BAH to MAA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manama BAH to Chennai MAA is a medium haul sector of 3,415 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,415 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 37m.
Manama BAH is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 52 scheduled destinations and 99.3 departures a day. Chennai MAA has 58 destinations and 160.7 departures a day.
Chennai is 2.5 hours ahead of Manama 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 BAH to MAA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAH to MAA | 1.43 | 10 | Gulf Air |
| MAA to BAH | 1.29 | 9 | Gulf Air |
One carrier holds the sector, Gulf Air, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 19 departures a week on BAH 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 4h 37m block time on BAH 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 BAH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BAH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BAH to MAA in the air, estimated | 277 min | 9h 07m |
| Formalities at MAA | 90 min | 10h 37m |
| Delivery run in Chennai | 45 min | 11h 22m |
| Door to door | 682 min | 11h 22m |
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 BAH to MAA is 11h 22m.
A courier who leaves Manama at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chennai at about 16:07 local and at the door by 18:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chennai, the last useful departure from Manama is around 08:38 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. 18 of them join BAH to MAA.
| Connecting at | BAH to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangalore BLR | 2.29 | 15.14 | 3,442 | 6h 13m |
| Muscat MCT | 1.71 | 1.57 | 3,416 | 6h 21m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 1.29 | 10.14 | 3,541 | 6h 24m |
| Doha DOH | 6.57 | 2.29 | 3,434 | 6h 25m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.43 | 1.14 | 3,422 | 6h 28m |
| Goa GOI | 0.86 | 0.86 | 3,424 | 6h 31m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BAH in the afternoon actually flies on.
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangalore BLR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through BLR the routing covers 3,442 km against the 3,415 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 13m 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 36m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Muscat MCT at 6h 21m and Hyderabad HYD at 6h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Manama, Dammam DMM is 86 km away by great circle and carries 43 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Manama 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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Restrictions
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 BAH 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 BAH airport entry
- The MAA airport entry
- Hand carry into Bahrain
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Chennai to Stuttgart
- The written lane, Dubai to Chennai
- The route calculator
More pairs through BAH and MAA: Dubai to Manama, Manama to Abu Dhabi, Mumbai to Manama, Manama to Bangalore, Kochi to Manama, Manama to Manila, Cairo to Manama, Manama to Hyderabad.