The sector is held by Azimuth Airlines, Georgian Airways and Red Wings.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LED St Petersburg to TBS Tbilisi
St Petersburg Pulkovo, Russia, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,254 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 23m
- Door to door
- 10h 08m
What LED to TBS looks like
The LED to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
St Petersburg LED to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 2,254 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,254 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 23m.
St Petersburg LED is a large airport in the network held here, 112 scheduled destinations and 245.3 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
St Petersburg carries about 2.9 times the departures of Tbilisi, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tbilisi is one hour ahead of St Petersburg 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 LED to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LED to TBS | 1.71 | 12 | Azimuth Airlines, Georgian Airways, Red Wings |
| TBS to LED | 1.57 | 11 | Azimuth Airlines, Georgian Airways, Red Wings |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 23 departures a week on LED 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 3h 23m block time on LED 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 LED | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LED before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LED to TBS in the air, estimated | 203 min | 7h 53m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 9h 23m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 10h 08m |
| Door to door | 608 min | 10h 08m |
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 LED to TBS is 10h 08m.
A courier who leaves St Petersburg at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 13:23 local and at the door by 15:38 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from St Petersburg is around 11:22 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. 19 of them join LED to TBS.
| Connecting at | LED to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow VKO | 18 | 6 | 2,271 | 5h 01m |
| Sochi AER | 6.71 | 1.14 | 2,387 | 5h 08m |
| Yerevan EVN | 3 | 1 | 2,572 | 5h 20m |
| Kazan KZN | 7.57 | 0.71 | 2,798 | 5h 34m |
| Baku GYD | 2.14 | 7.71 | 2,996 | 5h 54m |
| Istanbul SAW | 4.43 | 5.29 | 3,411 | 6h 36m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LED in the afternoon actually flies on.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Moscow VKO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through VKO the routing covers 2,271 km against the 2,254 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Sochi AER at 5h 08m and Yerevan EVN at 5h 20m 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 St Petersburg 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 LED 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 LED airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Russia
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
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