SGN Ho Chi Minh City

How deep the SGN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SGN. This reads the same 77 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.

• 31of the 77 destinations are flown by one airline
• 24destinations run less than once a day
• 21destinations have four or more departures a day
• 61%of the destinations name Vietnam Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SGN

45 airlines appear on the SGN board and they do not hold it evenly. Vietnam Airlines is on 47 of the 77 destinations, 61 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 349.5 of the 380.1 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 43 destinations. 34 of the 45 airlines at SGN 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 47 of the 77 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an SGN 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 SGN than the destination count does.

How much of the SGN board is daily

Of the 77 destinations, 53 are flown at least once a day and 24 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SGN 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: SGN to Jinan (TNA) 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 168.2 of the 380.1 departures a day, 44.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 72 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at SGN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Jinan TNA	China	Shandong Airlines	1	3,083	plan this
Guiyang KWE	China	Colorful Guizhou Airlines	2	1,748	plan this
London LHR	the United Kingdom	Vietnam Airlines	2	10,219	plan this
Moscow SVO	Russia	Aeroflot	2	7,727	the pair page
Munich MUC	Germany	Vietnam Airlines	2	9,466	plan this
Copenhagen CPH	Denmark	Vietnam Airlines	3	9,265	the pair page
Fukuoka FUK	Japan	Vietnam Airlines	3	3,504	the pair page
Haikou HAK	China	Hainan Airlines	3	1,093	the pair page
Hyderabad HYD	India	VietJetAir	3	3,123	the pair page
Lijiang LJG	China	Ruili Airlines	3	1,887	plan this

The ten destinations out of SGN 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. 11 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SGN

The desk holds the return direction for 55 of the 77 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into SGN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Hangzhou (HGH) at 1.3 out a day against 0.31 back, Wuhan (WUH) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Sydney (SYD) at 2.4 out a day against 1.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Tokyo (NRT) files 4.6 a day back into SGN against 2.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SGN

SGN keeps Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 12:00 at SGN, 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 SGN until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at SGN

6 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 Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from SGN that lands inside it leaves around 11:15, on a modelled block of 8h 45m. Into Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from SGN that lands inside it leaves around 15:13, on a modelled block of 5h 47m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from SGN that lands inside it leaves around 16:20, on a modelled block of 12h 40m. Those three departure times out of SGN 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 SGN turns up on the rest of this site

SGN 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 SGN transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 49 airport pair pages that start or end at SGN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi (HAN), Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang (DAD) and Ho Chi Minh City to Singapore (SIN).

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

Two courier postings name SGN as the airport a courier here flies from: Ho Chi Minh City and Cần Thơ.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SGN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 77 destinations above.