The sector is held by Air France and Air India.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to DEL Delhi
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 6,565 km
- Block, estimated
- 8h 24m
- Door to door
- 15h 09m
What CDG to DEL looks like
The CDG to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Delhi DEL is a long haul sector of 6,565 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 6,565 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 8h 24m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi runs 4.5 hours ahead of Paris in January and 3.5 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on CDG to DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to DEL | 3.14 | 22 | Air France, Air India |
| DEL to CDG | 3.14 | 22 | Air France, Air India |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air France and Air India, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.1 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 44 departures a week on CDG to DEL, 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 8h 24m block time on CDG to DEL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CDG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CDG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CDG to DEL in the air, estimated | 504 min | 12h 54m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 14h 24m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 15h 09m |
| Door to door | 909 min | 15h 09m |
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 CDG to DEL is 15h 09m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 21:54 local and at the door by 00:09 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, nothing leaving Paris inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 15h 09m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 46 of them join CDG to DEL.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baku GYD | 0.57 | 1.14 | 6,597 | 10h 09m |
| Vienna VIE | 10 | 0.57 | 6,581 | 10h 15m |
| Warsaw WAW | 7.86 | 1.14 | 6,604 | 10h 18m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 14.57 | 3.14 | 6,570 | 10h 32m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 11.14 | 0.57 | 6,843 | 10h 34m |
| Zurich ZRH | 8.86 | 2.86 | 6,624 | 10h 36m |
With 3.1 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.
46 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Baku GYD, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through GYD the routing covers 6,597 km against the 6,565 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 09m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vienna VIE at 10h 15m and Warsaw WAW at 10h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris ORY is 35 km away by great circle and carries 157 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Paris CDG is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 05:00 local, so a collection in Paris that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Delhi.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or DEL. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Renault, Flins and DouaiAssembly and electric vehicle production. Paris is both the plant region and the intercontinental gate. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and ParisInsulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. Logistics through Paris CDG.
Plan Paris to Delhi 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 CDG to DEL 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 CDG airport entry
- The DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into India
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- The written lane, Doha to Paris
- The written lane, Dubai to Paris
- The route calculator
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