DAC Dhaka

How deep the DAC board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from DAC. This reads the same 49 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 23of the 49 destinations are flown by one airline
• 19destinations run less than once a day
• 12destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.1%of the destinations name Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at DAC

44 airlines appear on the DAC board and they do not hold it evenly. Biman Bangladesh Airlines is on 28 of the 49 destinations, 57.1 per cent of them, and on 8 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 149.8 of the 172.2 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is US-Bangla Airlines on 19 destinations. 32 of the 44 airlines at DAC appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 28 of the 49 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a DAC sector is usually another Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at DAC than the destination count does.

How much of the DAC board is daily

Of the 49 destinations, 30 are flown at least once a day and 19 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the DAC board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: DAC to Tokyo (NRT) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 92 of the 172.2 departures a day, 53.4 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves DAC is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Baku GYD	Azerbaijan	Silk Way West	1	4,177	the pair page
London LHR	the United Kingdom	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	1	8,015	plan this
Nanjing NKG	China	JDL	1	2,924	the pair page
Tokyo NRT	Japan	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	1	4,946	the pair page
Jashahor JSR	Bangladesh	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	2	146	plan this
Karachi KHI	Pakistan	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	2	2,354	the pair page
Ningbo NGB	China	JDL	2	3,143	plan this
Beijing PKX	China	China Southern Airlines	3	2,997	the pair page
Cairo CAI	Egypt	EgyptAir	3	5,824	the pair page
Hyderabad HYD	India	IndiGo	3	1,446	the pair page

The ten destinations out of DAC where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 7 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from DAC

The desk holds the return direction for 35 of the 49 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into DAC runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Jebel Ali (DWC) at 0.57 out a day against 0.14 back, Malé (MLE) at 0.86 out a day against 0.29 back and Istanbul (IST) at 1.7 out a day against 1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Karachi (KHI) files 0.43 a day back into DAC against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at DAC

DAC keeps Asia/Dhaka time, two hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 11:00 at DAC, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at DAC and still make a departure the same day.

The night at DAC

2 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from DAC that lands inside it leaves around 18:21, on a modelled block of 10h 09m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from DAC that lands inside it leaves around 13:33, on a modelled block of 6h 27m. Those two departure times out of DAC are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where DAC turns up on the rest of this site

DAC carries two other pages on this site as well: the Bangladesh country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the DAC transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 32 airport pair pages that start or end at DAC, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Dhaka to Kuala Lumpur (KUL), Dhaka to Bangkok (BKK) and Dhaka to Riyadh (RUH).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Dhaka and Sharjah to Dhaka. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at DAC written out.

Three courier postings name DAC as the airport a courier here flies from: Dhaka, Gazipur and Comilla.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with DAC already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 49 destinations above.