The sector is held by Azimuth Airlines and Georgian Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TBS Tbilisi to VKO Moscow
Tbilisi International, Georgia, to Moscow Vnukovo, Russia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,646 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 36m
- Door to door
- 9h 21m
What TBS to VKO looks like
The TBS to VKO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tbilisi TBS to Moscow VKO is a medium haul sector of 1,646 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,646 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 36m.
Tbilisi TBS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 72 scheduled destinations and 84 departures a day. Moscow VKO has 77 destinations and 181.4 departures a day.
Moscow is one hour behind of Tbilisi 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 TBS to VKO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBS to VKO | 6.14 | 43 | Azimuth Airlines, Georgian Airways |
| VKO to TBS | 6 | 42 | Azimuth Airlines, Georgian Airways |
Two carriers hold the sector, Azimuth Airlines and Georgian Airways, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 6.1 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 85 departures a week on TBS to VKO, 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 36m block time on TBS to VKO. 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 VKO in the air, estimated | 156 min | 7h 06m |
| Formalities at VKO | 90 min | 8h 36m |
| Delivery run in Moscow | 45 min | 9h 21m |
| Door to door | 561 min | 9h 21m |
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 VKO is 9h 21m.
A courier who leaves Tbilisi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Moscow at about 10:36 local and at the door by 12:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Moscow, the last useful departure from Tbilisi is around 14:09 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. 15 of them join TBS to VKO.
| Connecting at | TBS to hub, flights a day | Hub to VKO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sochi AER | 1.14 | 2.57 | 1,818 | 4h 25m |
| Yerevan EVN | 1 | 6.71 | 1,972 | 4h 34m |
| Baku GYD | 7.29 | 4.57 | 2,372 | 5h 07m |
| St Petersburg LED | 1.57 | 18 | 2,879 | 6h 03m |
| Istanbul SAW | 5.29 | 5.43 | 3,042 | 6h 08m |
| Istanbul IST | 6.71 | 7.43 | 3,057 | 6h 24m |
With 6.1 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.
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sochi AER, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through AER the routing covers 1,818 km against the 1,646 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 25m 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 49m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Yerevan EVN at 4h 34m and Baku GYD at 5h 07m 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 Moscow, Moscow SVO is 43 km away by great circle and carries 130 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tbilisi to Moscow 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 VKO 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 VKO airport entry
- Hand carry into Georgia
- Hand carry into Russia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through TBS and VKO: Dubai to Tbilisi, Tbilisi to Tel Aviv, Tbilisi to Istanbul, Abu Dhabi to Tbilisi, Baku to Tbilisi, Doha to Tbilisi, Riyadh to Tbilisi, Almaty to Tbilisi.