Abu Dhabi leaves Mumbai at 11 PM and 1 AM — late enough that you drive down from Pune in daylight and check in during the evening, with no night on the road.
Doorstep pickup anywhere in Pune · pay after the ride
Quick answer
For a Abu Dhabi flight from Mumbai airport, leave Pune about 7 hours before departure — 3.5 hours driving, 3 hours for international check-in and 0.5 hours contingency. The busiest Abu Dhabi departure is 11:00 PM, so you would leave Pune by 4:00 PM. An Orbitmiles cab from Pune to CSMIA Terminal 2 is a fixed ₹2,700 for up to 150 km, including all Expressway and Atal Setu tolls, with doorstep pickup anywhere in Pune and no night surcharge. Payment is after the ride by UPI, card or cash. Book at orbitmiles.in/book or WhatsApp +91 84848 76369.
Abu Dhabi departs Mumbai late — 11 PM and 1 AM carry most of the traffic. From Pune that is unexpectedly convenient: a late-afternoon start, a daylight drive, and check-in in the evening. Only about a quarter of Abu Dhabi departures leave before 6 AM.
Abu Dhabi departures cluster late: 23:00 and 01:00 carry most of the traffic. That is actually convenient from Pune — you leave in the late afternoon, drive down in daylight, and check in during the evening rather than getting up at 3 AM.
Departure times observed on the CSMIA board across 11-16 August 2026 (49 Abu Dhabi departures). Each row works back from the flight: 3 hours for international check-in, the drive, and 0.5 hours of contingency.
| Flight departs | Check in by | Leave Pune by | Drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 PM | 8:00 PM | 4:00 PM | ~3.5 hrs (traffic) |
| 1:00 AM | 10:00 PM | 6:00 PM day before | ~3.5 hrs (traffic) |
| 5:00 AM | 2:00 AM | 11:00 PM day before | ~2.5 hrs (clear roads) |
Note the day-before rows. This is the single most common way people miss an international flight from Pune — a 5:00 AM departure means being on the expressway the previous evening, not on the morning of your ticket date. We schedule the pickup from your flight time, so tell us the flight rather than a pickup time and we will work it back for you.
Give us the flight number, not a pickup time. For the 11:00 PM departure that means a 4:00 PM pickup — we apply the check-in window, the realistic drive time for that hour and a buffer, then confirm it back to you.
Hinjawadi, Kharadi, Baner, Koregaon Park, Magarpatta, Wakad or anywhere else — the driver comes to your address. On this route that matters: nobody should be hauling luggage to a pickup point in the middle of the night.
The awkward Abu Dhabi departure times cost exactly the same as the convenient ones. A 4:00 PM pickup is ₹2,700, the same as a midday one.
All Etihad Airways and other international services leave from T2. The driver takes you to the correct departure level rather than the arrivals kerb, which on a busy CSMIA day saves a long walk with bags.
The 01:00 departure is the one to think about carefully, because it sits in an awkward gap. Leave Pune at 6 PM and you are driving through the tail of the evening peak; leave at 5 PM and you have a long wait at T2. Neither is bad, but they are different days, and it is worth deciding deliberately rather than defaulting. Our advice on this bank is to take the earlier pickup and use the terminal — CSMIA's T2 airside is genuinely comfortable, and an hour with a coffee beats an hour worrying about traffic on the Khopoli stretch. The other thing worth flagging is that Etihad runs Abu Dhabi as a connecting hub much like Doha, so a good share of passengers are continuing to Europe or the US. If you are on a through ticket, tell us — we add extra buffer at no charge, because a missed connection is a far more expensive failure than a missed sector.
Orbitmiles charges nothing when you book — no advance and no card held. You settle up once you have been dropped at the terminal, by whichever method suits.
Travelling for work? We invoice companies monthly with GST — ask us to set up an account and your airport runs can be billed rather than expensed.
Tell us your Abu Dhabi flight and we work the pickup time back from it. The car is confirmed in advance, and you pay nothing until the journey is done.
Around 4 PM. That gives 3.5 hours for the drive in afternoon traffic, 3 hours for international check-in and a contingency buffer. It is a daylight drive with an evening check-in.
Tell us when you book and we will add extra buffer at no charge. On a through ticket, missing the Mumbai sector means missing the onward long-haul too, which is far harder and more expensive to rebook than a single flight.
Etihad Airways, IndiGo, Air India Express and Akasa Air, giving around 57 departures a week. The main banks are 11 PM and 1 AM, with a smaller 5 AM service.
A fixed ₹2,700 for up to 150 km, including doorstep pickup in Pune, all expressway and Atal Setu tolls and drop at Terminal 2. You pay after the ride by UPI, card or cash — nothing is charged when you book.
We budget the full 3.5 hours for a daytime run rather than an optimistic figure, and we work the pickup back from your flight. If you would rather leave earlier and wait airside, tell us and we will move it.
Yes — doorstep pickup from any address in the city, including Hinjawadi, Kharadi, Baner, Wakad and Magarpatta. Allow extra time if you are starting from the western IT corridor during peak hours.