The sector is held by Red Wings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AER Sochi to TBS Tbilisi
Sochi Airport, Russia, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 454 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 10m
- Door to door
- 7h 55m
What AER to TBS looks like
The AER to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Sochi AER to Tbilisi TBS is a short sector of 454 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 454 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 10m.
Sochi AER is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 66 scheduled destinations and 88.3 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Tbilisi is one hour ahead of Sochi all year.
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 AER to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AER to TBS | 1.14 | 8 | Red Wings |
| TBS to AER | 1.14 | 8 | Red Wings |
One carrier holds the sector, Red Wings, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on AER to TBS, 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 10m block time on AER to TBS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AER | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AER before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AER to TBS in the air, estimated | 70 min | 5h 40m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 7h 10m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 7h 55m |
| Door to door | 475 min | 7h 55m |
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 AER to TBS is 7h 55m.
A courier who leaves Sochi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 11:10 local and at the door by 13:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Sochi is around 13:35 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. 14 of them join AER to TBS.
| Connecting at | AER to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yerevan EVN | 1.35 | 1 | 696 | 3h 02m |
| Antalya AYT | 2.43 | 2 | 2,392 | 5h 19m |
| Istanbul IST | 1.32 | 4.71 | 2,300 | 5h 26m |
| Tel Aviv TLV | 1.16 | 5 | 2,743 | 5h 45m |
| Moscow VKO | 2.57 | 6 | 3,010 | 5h 51m |
| Kazan KZN | 2.48 | 0.71 | 3,088 | 5h 56m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at AER in the afternoon actually flies on.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Yerevan EVN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through EVN the routing covers 696 km against the 454 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 02m 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 52m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Antalya AYT at 5h 19m and Istanbul IST at 5h 26m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tbilisi, Yerevan EVN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 82 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Sochi to Tbilisi 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 AER to TBS 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 AER airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Russia
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through AER and TBS: Sochi to Dubai, Sochi to Abu Dhabi, Dubai to Tbilisi, Tbilisi to Tel Aviv, Tbilisi to Istanbul, Abu Dhabi to Tbilisi, Baku to Tbilisi, Doha to Tbilisi.