The sector is held by Air India, IndiGo and Starlight Airline.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BOM Mumbai to MAA Chennai
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, India, to Chennai International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,033 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 49m
- Door to door
- 8h 34m
What BOM to MAA looks like
The BOM to MAA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Mumbai BOM to Chennai MAA is a short sector of 1,033 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,033 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 49m.
Mumbai BOM is a large airport in the network held here, 106 scheduled destinations and 372.3 departures a day. Chennai MAA has 58 destinations and 160.7 departures a day.
Mumbai and Chennai keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 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 MAA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOM to MAA | 15.29 | 107 | Air India, IndiGo, Starlight Airline |
| MAA to BOM | 0 | 0 | none held |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The return leg MAA to BOM carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At 15.3 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 107 departures a week on BOM to MAA, 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 1h 49m block time on BOM to MAA. 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 MAA in the air, estimated | 109 min | 6h 19m |
| Formalities at MAA | 90 min | 7h 49m |
| Delivery run in Chennai | 45 min | 8h 34m |
| Door to door | 514 min | 8h 34m |
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 MAA is 8h 34m.
A courier who leaves Mumbai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Chennai at about 10:49 local and at the door by 13:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Chennai, the last useful departure from Mumbai is around 13:56 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. 37 of them join BOM to MAA.
| Connecting at | BOM to hub, flights a day | Hub to MAA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangalore BLR | 29.43 | 15.14 | 1,102 | 3h 28m |
| Hyderabad HYD | 15.29 | 10.14 | 1,130 | 3h 40m |
| Goa GOI | 10 | 0.86 | 1,158 | 3h 43m |
| Tiruchirappalli TRZ | 0.71 | 6.86 | 1,412 | 3h 52m |
| Madurai IXM | 0.86 | 4.14 | 1,589 | 4h 07m |
| Kochi COK | 11.29 | 5.43 | 1,582 | 4h 08m |
With 15.3 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.
37 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangalore BLR, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 15.1 times a day.
Through BLR the routing covers 1,102 km against the 1,033 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 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 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Hyderabad HYD at 3h 40m and Goa GOI at 3h 43m 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.
Plan Mumbai to Chennai 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 MAA 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.
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