The sector is held by AZUR Air, Pegasus, Pobeda, Turkish Airlines and UTAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
VKO Moscow to AYT Antalya
Moscow Vnukovo, Russia, to Antalya Airport, Türkiye. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 22.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,135 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 14m
- Door to door
- 9h 59m
What VKO to AYT looks like
The VKO to AYT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Moscow VKO to Antalya AYT is a medium haul sector of 2,135 km by great circle, flown nonstop 22.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,135 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 14m.
Moscow VKO is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 77 scheduled destinations and 181.4 departures a day. Antalya AYT has 182 destinations and 518.9 departures a day.
Antalya carries about 2.9 times the departures of Moscow, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Moscow and Antalya keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 VKO to AYT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| VKO to AYT | 22.57 | 158 | AZUR Air, Pegasus, Pobeda, Turkish Airlines, UTAir |
| AYT to VKO | 20.86 | 146 | AZUR Air, Pegasus, Pobeda, Turkish Airlines, UTAir |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 22.6 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 304 departures a week on VKO to AYT, 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 3h 14m block time on VKO to AYT. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to VKO | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At VKO before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| VKO to AYT in the air, estimated | 194 min | 7h 44m |
| Formalities at AYT | 90 min | 9h 14m |
| Delivery run in Antalya | 45 min | 9h 59m |
| Door to door | 599 min | 9h 59m |
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 VKO to AYT is 9h 59m.
A courier who leaves Moscow at 09:00 local is on the ground in Antalya at about 12:14 local and at the door by 14:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Antalya, the last useful departure from Moscow is around 12:31 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. 16 of them join VKO to AYT.
| Connecting at | VKO to hub, flights a day | Hub to AYT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ankara ESB | 1.14 | 11.86 | 2,155 | 4h 50m |
| Sochi AER | 3.71 | 2.43 | 2,429 | 5h 07m |
| Istanbul SAW | 5.43 | 25.29 | 2,197 | 5h 09m |
| Izmir ADB | 1 | 3.14 | 2,422 | 5h 09m |
| Istanbul IST | 10.29 | 19.14 | 2,226 | 5h 27m |
| Tbilisi TBS | 6 | 2 | 2,973 | 5h 48m |
With 22.6 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.
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Ankara ESB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through ESB the routing covers 2,155 km against the 2,135 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 50m 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, Sochi AER at 5h 07m and Istanbul SAW at 5h 09m 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 SVO is 43 km away by great circle and carries 130 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Antalya, Rhodes RHO is 248 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Moscow to Antalya 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 VKO to AYT 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 VKO airport entry
- The AYT airport entry
- Hand carry into Russia
- Hand carry into Türkiye
- The route calculator
More pairs through VKO and AYT: Dusseldorf to Antalya, Berlin to Antalya, Prague to Antalya, Stuttgart to Antalya, Hannover to Antalya, Hamburg to Antalya, Antalya to Dubai, Bratislava to Antalya.