The sector is held by Royal Jordanian.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOM Mumbai to AMM Amman
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, India, to Queen Alia International, Jordan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,938 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 15m
- Door to door
- 12h 00m
What BOM to AMM looks like
The BOM to AMM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mumbai BOM to Amman AMM is a long haul sector of 3,938 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,938 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 15m.
Mumbai BOM is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 372.3 departures a day. Amman AMM has 72 destinations and 131.4 departures a day.
Mumbai carries about 2.8 times the departures of Amman, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Amman is 2.5 hours behind of Mumbai 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 BOM to AMM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOM to AMM | 0.71 | 5 | Royal Jordanian |
| AMM to BOM | 0.43 | 3 | Royal Jordanian |
One carrier holds the sector, Royal Jordanian, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: BOM to AMM runs 5 times a week, 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 8 departures a week on BOM to AMM, 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 5h 15m block time on BOM to AMM. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BOM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BOM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BOM to AMM in the air, estimated | 315 min | 9h 45m |
| Formalities at AMM | 90 min | 11h 15m |
| Delivery run in Amman | 45 min | 12h 00m |
| Door to door | 720 min | 12h 00m |
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 BOM to AMM is 12h 00m.
A courier who leaves Mumbai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Amman at about 11:45 local and at the door by 14:00 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Amman, the last useful departure from Mumbai is around 13:00 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. 27 of them join BOM to AMM.
| Connecting at | BOM to hub, flights a day | Hub to AMM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait City KWI | 3.14 | 2.86 | 3,938 | 7h 01m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 2.57 | 5.29 | 3,946 | 7h 03m |
| Manama BAH | 2.43 | 2.86 | 3,959 | 7h 03m |
| Dammam DMM | 1.72 | 2.14 | 3,960 | 7h 03m |
| Muscat MCT | 4.29 | 1.14 | 3,958 | 7h 03m |
| Riyadh RUH | 3.71 | 9.62 | 4,059 | 7h 11m |
27 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kuwait City KWI, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through KWI the routing covers 3,938 km against the 3,938 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 01m 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 46m 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 7h 03m and Manama BAH at 7h 03m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Mumbai, Pune PNQ is 124 km away by great circle and carries 34 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Amman, Tel Aviv TLV is 109 km away by great circle and carries 110 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Mumbai to Amman 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 BOM to AMM 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 BOM airport entry
- The AMM airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into Jordan
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Mumbai
- The written lane, Doha to Mumbai
- The written lane, Dubai to Mumbai
- The route calculator
More pairs through BOM and AMM: Amman to Istanbul, Madrid to Amman, Amman to Dubai, Amman to Cairo, Milan to Amman, Berlin to Amman, Zurich to Amman, Vienna to Amman.