The sector is held by Oman Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MCT Muscat to TAS Tashkent
Muscat International, Oman, to Tashkent Yunus Abad, Uzbekistan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,214 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 20m
- Door to door
- 10h 05m
What MCT to TAS looks like
The MCT to TAS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Muscat MCT to Tashkent TAS is a medium haul sector of 2,214 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,214 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 20m.
Muscat MCT is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 73 scheduled destinations and 122.1 departures a day. Tashkent TAS has 98 destinations and 118.5 departures a day.
Tashkent is one hour ahead of Muscat 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 MCT to TAS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCT to TAS | 0.29 | 2 | Oman Air |
| TAS to MCT | 0.29 | 2 | Oman Air |
One carrier holds the sector, Oman Air, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times 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 4.1 departures a week on MCT to TAS, 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 20m block time on MCT to TAS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MCT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MCT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MCT to TAS in the air, estimated | 200 min | 7h 50m |
| Formalities at TAS | 90 min | 9h 20m |
| Delivery run in Tashkent | 45 min | 10h 05m |
| Door to door | 605 min | 10h 05m |
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 MCT to TAS is 10h 05m.
A courier who leaves Muscat at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tashkent at about 13:20 local and at the door by 15:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tashkent, the last useful departure from Muscat is around 11:25 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. 23 of them join MCT to TAS.
| Connecting at | MCT to hub, flights a day | Hub to TAS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharjah SHJ | 4.57 | 1.14 | 2,519 | 5h 17m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 2.8 | 1.86 | 2,691 | 5h 46m |
| Dubai DXB | 6.71 | 4.29 | 2,543 | 5h 49m |
| Doha DOH | 5.57 | 0.71 | 3,112 | 6h 22m |
| Delhi DEL | 3.15 | 1.86 | 3,536 | 6h 46m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.68 | 0.57 | 4,078 | 7h 28m |
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sharjah SHJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through SHJ the routing covers 2,519 km against the 2,214 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 17m 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 57m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Abu Dhabi AUH at 5h 46m and Dubai DXB at 5h 49m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Muscat to Tashkent 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 MCT to TAS 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 MCT airport entry
- The TAS airport entry
- Hand carry into Oman
- Hand carry into Uzbekistan
- The written lane, Sharjah to Muscat
- The route calculator
More pairs through MCT and TAS: Mumbai to Muscat, Muscat to Delhi, Dubai to Muscat, Bangkok to Muscat, Singapore to Muscat, Milan to Muscat, Frankfurt to Muscat, Kuala Lumpur to Muscat.