The sector is held by Sky Express.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TBS Tbilisi to HER Heraklion
Tbilisi International, Georgia, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,854 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 52m
- Door to door
- 9h 37m
What TBS to HER looks like
The TBS to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tbilisi TBS to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 1,854 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,854 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 52m.
Tbilisi TBS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 72 scheduled destinations and 84 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion runs 2 hours behind of Tbilisi in January and one hour behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 TBS to HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBS to HER | 0.14 | 1 | Sky Express |
| HER to TBS | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Sky Express, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg HER to TBS carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once 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 1 departure a week on TBS to HER, 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 2h 52m block time on TBS to HER. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TBS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TBS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TBS to HER in the air, estimated | 172 min | 7h 22m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 8h 52m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 9h 37m |
| Door to door | 577 min | 9h 37m |
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 TBS to HER is 9h 37m.
A courier who leaves Tbilisi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 09:52 local and at the door by 12:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Tbilisi is around 14:53 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. 24 of them join TBS to HER.
| Connecting at | TBS to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 1.29 | 1.14 | 2,013 | 4h 43m |
| Athens ATH | 1.86 | 14.57 | 2,146 | 5h 03m |
| Tel Aviv TLV | 5.29 | 9.86 | 2,367 | 5h 16m |
| Istanbul IST | 6.71 | 1.14 | 2,079 | 5h 17m |
| Belgrade BEG | 0.71 | 0.86 | 3,151 | 6h 17m |
| Vienna VIE | 0.86 | 3.43 | 3,920 | 7h 16m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through LCA the routing covers 2,013 km against the 1,854 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 43m 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Athens ATH at 5h 03m and Tel Aviv TLV at 5h 16m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tbilisi to Heraklion 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 TBS to HER 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 TBS airport entry
- The HER airport entry
- Hand carry into Georgia
- Hand carry into Greece
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through TBS and HER: Tel Aviv to Heraklion, Dusseldorf to Heraklion, Hamburg to Heraklion, Stuttgart to Heraklion, Hannover to Heraklion, Eindhoven to Heraklion, Derby and Nottingham to Heraklion, Bratislava to Heraklion.