The sector is held by Gulf Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BAH Manama to KHI Karachi
Bahrain International, Bahrain, to Jinnah International, Pakistan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,663 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 37m
- Door to door
- 9h 22m
What BAH to KHI looks like
The BAH to KHI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manama BAH to Karachi KHI is a medium haul sector of 1,663 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,663 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 37m.
Manama BAH is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 52 scheduled destinations and 99.3 departures a day. Karachi KHI has 28 destinations and 66.4 departures a day.
Karachi is 2 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 KHI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAH to KHI | 1.14 | 8 | Gulf Air |
| KHI to BAH | 1.14 | 8 | 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 16 departures a week on BAH to KHI, 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 37m block time on BAH to KHI. 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 KHI in the air, estimated | 157 min | 7h 07m |
| Formalities at KHI | 90 min | 8h 37m |
| Delivery run in Karachi | 45 min | 9h 22m |
| Door to door | 562 min | 9h 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 KHI is 9h 22m.
A courier who leaves Manama at 09:00 local is on the ground in Karachi at about 13:37 local and at the door by 15:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Karachi, the last useful departure from Manama is around 11:08 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 BAH to KHI.
| Connecting at | BAH to hub, flights a day | Hub to KHI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscat MCT | 1.71 | 1.29 | 1,739 | 4h 13m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.43 | 3.43 | 1,673 | 4h 14m |
| Doha DOH | 6.57 | 2.29 | 1,714 | 4h 28m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 8.16 | 3.43 | 1,717 | 4h 32m |
| Dubai DXB | 12.86 | 7.71 | 1,675 | 4h 44m |
| Riyadh RUH | 6.71 | 1.58 | 2,482 | 5h 15m |
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.
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Muscat MCT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MCT the routing covers 1,739 km against the 1,663 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 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, Sharjah SHJ at 4h 14m and Doha DOH at 4h 28m 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 Karachi 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 KHI 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 KHI airport entry
- Hand carry into Bahrain
- Hand carry into Pakistan
- The written lane, Dubai to Karachi
- The written lane, Karachi to Istanbul
- The written lane, Karachi to Sharjah
- The route calculator
More pairs through BAH and KHI: 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.