Chennai to Thrissur flight

Flights from Chennai to Thrissur start at €50.29 and take 4h 49m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Chennai to Thrissur starts at €50.29 and takes 4h 49m door to door, run by 2 operators over 539 km, with around 1 departure a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 13 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 4h 49mDoor to door
  • 1h 51mMoving
  • €61.50 to €134.07From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 1Per day
  • 95.4 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 13 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€61.50 to €134.07 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €134.07Thu24
  2. about €129.35Fri25
  3. about €118.14Sat26
  4. about €104.57Sun27
  5. about €107.52Mon28
  6. about €103.39Tue29
  7. about €75.66Wed30
  8. about €103.98Thu1
  9. about €80.38Fri2
  10. about €95.72Sat3
  11. about €78.02Sun4
  12. about €75.66Mon5
  13. about €65.04Tue6
  14. about €61.50Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 13 October 2026

Fastest€50.29
  1. IndiGo Airlines IG649907:3059m08:29Chennai International Airport MAACoimbatore International Airport CJB
  2. South Western Railway SW387709:3052m10:22Coimbatore JunctionThrissur railway station

Changes at Coimbatore, with 61 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.

Door to door 4h 49mCO2 95.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
IndiGo Airlines740 km/hFixed fareNot published
South Western Railway140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • IndiGo Airlines
  • South Western Railway

The flight gets you into Thrissur. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Thrissur for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Thrissur railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Chennai to Thrissur

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €51.8890 days
  2. €50.7860 days
  3. €46.3845 days
  4. €45.2830 days
  5. €45.8321 days
  6. €48.0314 days
  7. €72.237 days
  8. €93.683 days
  9. €122.831 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €45.28.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 171 percent. The dearest point is €122.83, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €66.18Sun
  2. €63.98Mon
  3. €45.83Tue
  4. €48.03Wed
  5. €71.68Thu
  6. €73.88Fri
  7. €67.83Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Chennai

Air
  • MAA
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 539 km against 526 km in a straight line, a detour of 11 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Coimbatore, Erode, Salem. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Chennai at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 1 departure The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
The alternatives

Flights against the other ways to make this journey

Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
ModeDoor to doorMovingAt the endsFromCO2Per day
Flight4h 49m1h 51m2h 58m€50.2995.4 kg1
Coach8h 44m6h 51m1h 53m€45.2820.3 kg2

Questions about Chennai to Thrissur

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur take?

The Flight from Chennai to Thrissur takes 4h 49m door to door, of which 1h 51m is spent moving. The route runs 539 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur cost?

The Flight from Chennai to Thrissur starts at €50.29 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €50.29. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur?

2 operators run the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur: IndiGo Airlines, South Western Railway. Between them they file around 1 departure a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur use?

The Flight from Chennai to Thrissur leaves from Chennai International Airport MAA and arrives at Thrissur railway station. Allow about 1h 57m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

Is the Flight the best way from Chennai to Thrissur?

Travelling from Chennai to Thrissur by Coach costs €45.28 and takes 8h 44m door to door, against 4h 49m by Flight. Which is better depends on whether the money or the hours matter more on this trip. The comparison table on this page shows every mode side by side.

When should I book the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur?

Fares for the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €45.28. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 171 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur produce?

The Flight from Chennai to Thrissur produces about 95.4 kg of CO2 per passenger over 539 km, which works out at roughly 177 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur?

Operators on the Flight from Chennai to Thrissur publish Power sockets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 4h 49m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chennai to Thrissur on 23 September 2026: 539 km of route against 526 km in a straight line, 1 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €50.29, and 4h 49m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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