The sector is held by Shirak Avia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SVO Moscow to TBS Tbilisi
Moscow Sheremetyevo, Russia, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,681 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 39m
- Door to door
- 9h 24m
What SVO to TBS looks like
The SVO to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Moscow SVO to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 1,681 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,681 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 39m.
Moscow SVO is a large airport in the network held here, 130 scheduled destinations and 490.7 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Moscow carries about 5.8 times the departures of Tbilisi, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tbilisi 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 SVO to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SVO to TBS | 0.14 | 1 | Shirak Avia |
| TBS to SVO | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Shirak Avia, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg TBS to SVO carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on SVO to TBS, 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 39m block time on SVO to TBS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SVO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SVO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SVO to TBS in the air, estimated | 159 min | 7h 09m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 8h 39m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 9h 24m |
| Door to door | 564 min | 9h 24m |
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 SVO to TBS is 9h 24m.
A courier who leaves Moscow at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 12:39 local and at the door by 14:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Moscow is around 12:06 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. 20 of them join SVO to TBS.
| Connecting at | SVO to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sochi AER | 19.14 | 1.14 | 1,858 | 4h 28m |
| Yerevan EVN | 7.29 | 1 | 2,008 | 4h 36m |
| Kazan KZN | 16 | 0.71 | 2,323 | 5h 07m |
| Baku GYD | 3.43 | 7.71 | 2,402 | 5h 09m |
| St Petersburg LED | 30 | 1.71 | 2,853 | 6h 01m |
| Ekaterinburg SVX | 14 | 1.29 | 3,459 | 6h 25m |
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sochi AER, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through AER the routing covers 1,858 km against the 1,681 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 28m 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 49m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Yerevan EVN at 4h 36m and Kazan KZN at 5h 07m 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 43 km away by great circle and carries 77 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Tbilisi, Yerevan EVN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 82 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Moscow to Tbilisi 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 SVO to TBS 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 SVO airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Russia
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
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