HAN Hanoi

How deep the HAN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HAN. This reads the same 87 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.

• 51of the 87 destinations are flown by one airline
• 34destinations run less than once a day
• 21destinations have four or more departures a day
• 57.5%of the destinations name Vietnam Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HAN

60 airlines appear on the HAN board and they do not hold it evenly. Vietnam Airlines is on 50 of the 87 destinations, 57.5 per cent of them, and on 16 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 335 of the 368.8 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 VietJetAir on 35 destinations. 41 of the 60 airlines at HAN 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 50 of the 87 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an HAN sector is usually another Vietnam 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 HAN than the destination count does.

How much of the HAN board is daily

Of the 87 destinations, 53 are flown at least once a day and 34 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HAN 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: HAN to Jebel Ali (DWC) 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 184.4 of the 368.8 departures a day, 50 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves HAN 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
Ankara ESB	Turkiye	CMA	1	7,077	the pair page
Ashgabat ASB	Turkmenistan	Turkmenistan Airlines	1	4,890	plan this
Ezhou EHU	China	SF Airlines	1	1,370	plan this
Guiyang KWE	China	Colorful Guizhou Airlines	1	600	plan this
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	Emirates	1	5,169	plan this
Guilin City KWL	China	GX Airlines	2	620	plan this
Jinan TNA	China	Shandong Airlines	2	2,059	plan this
Khabarovsk KHV	Russia	VietJetAir	2	4,002	plan this
Nanning NNG	China	GX Airlines	2	289	the pair page
Penang PEN	Malaysia	Korean Air	2	1,868	plan this

The ten destinations out of HAN 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. 24 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from HAN

The desk holds the return direction for 57 of the 87 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On one of them the return into HAN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gap is Abu Dhabi (AUH) at 1.4 out a day against 0.57 back.

It runs the other way as well: Mumbai (BOM) files 2 a day back into HAN against 1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HAN

HAN keeps Asia/Bangkok time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 12:00 at HAN, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at HAN until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at HAN

8 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 Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HAN that lands inside it leaves around 16:01, on a modelled block of 4h 59m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HAN that lands inside it leaves around 17:00, on a modelled block of 11h 00m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from HAN that lands inside it leaves around 17:28, on a modelled block of 11h 32m. Those three departure times out of HAN 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 HAN turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 48 airport pair pages that start or end at HAN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN), Hanoi to Da Nang (DAD) and Hanoi to Seoul (ICN).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Hanoi. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at HAN written out.

Two courier postings name HAN as the airport a courier here flies from: Hanoi and Haiphong.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HAN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 87 destinations above.