The sector is held by AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines and IrAero.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DME Moscow to GYD Baku
Moscow Domodedovo, Russia, to Heydar Aliyev International, Azerbaijan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,885 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 54m
- Door to door
- 9h 39m
What DME to GYD looks like
The DME to GYD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Moscow DME to Baku GYD is a medium haul sector of 1,885 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,885 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 54m.
Moscow DME is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 65 scheduled destinations and 105.9 departures a day. Baku GYD has 64 destinations and 84.9 departures a day.
Baku is one hour ahead of Moscow all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DME to GYD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DME to GYD | 1.43 | 10 | AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines, IrAero |
| GYD to DME | 0.43 | 3 | IrAero |
Two carriers hold the sector, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines and IrAero, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: DME to GYD runs about once a day, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 13 departures a week on DME to GYD, 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 54m block time on DME to GYD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DME | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DME before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DME to GYD in the air, estimated | 174 min | 7h 24m |
| Formalities at GYD | 90 min | 8h 54m |
| Delivery run in Baku | 45 min | 9h 39m |
| Door to door | 579 min | 9h 39m |
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 DME to GYD is 9h 39m.
A courier who leaves Moscow at 09:00 local is on the ground in Baku at about 12:54 local and at the door by 15:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Baku, the last useful departure from Moscow is around 11:51 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. 10 of them join DME to GYD.
| Connecting at | DME to hub, flights a day | Hub to GYD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ekaterinburg SVX | 7.29 | 1.43 | 3,391 | 6h 20m |
| St Petersburg LED | 3 | 2.14 | 3,216 | 6h 29m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.21 | 8.14 | 3,496 | 6h 58m |
| Antalya AYT | 4.29 | 4.57 | 3,840 | 7h 09m |
| Tashkent TAS | 3.57 | 2.43 | 4,383 | 7h 36m |
| Dushanbe DYU | 1.14 | 0.57 | 4,584 | 7h 51m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DME in the afternoon actually flies on.
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Ekaterinburg SVX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SVX the routing covers 3,391 km against the 1,885 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 26m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, St Petersburg LED at 6h 29m and Istanbul IST at 6h 58m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Moscow, Moscow VKO is 45 km away by great circle and carries 77 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Moscow to Baku 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 DME to GYD 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 DME airport entry
- The GYD airport entry
- Hand carry into Russia
- Hand carry into Azerbaijan
- The written lane, Dubai to Baku
- The written lane, Sharjah to Baku
- The route calculator
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