HND Tokyo

How deep the HND board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HND. This reads the same 105 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.

• 45of the 105 destinations are flown by one airline
• 9destinations run less than once a day
• 48destinations have four or more departures a day
• 70.5%of the destinations name ANA, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HND

51 airlines appear on the HND board and they do not hold it evenly. ANA is on 74 of the 105 destinations, 70.5 per cent of them, and on 20 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 679.7 of the 738.1 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 JAL on 57 destinations. 33 of the 51 airlines at HND 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 74 of the 105 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an HND sector is usually another ANA 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 HND than the destination count does.

How much of the HND board is daily

Of the 105 destinations, 96 are flown at least once a day and 9 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HND board is flown 3.4 times 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: HND to Xiamen (XMN) 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 230.7 of the 738.1 departures a day, 31.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 100 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at HND usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Jackson JAC	the United States	JAL	1	8,695	plan this
Panama City Beach ECP	the United States	JAL	1	11,276	plan this
San Jose SJC	the United States	CPJ	1	8,334	plan this
Xiamen XMN	China	ANA	1	2,409	plan this
Tianjin TSN	China	Tianjin Airlines	2	2,017	the pair page
Milan MXP	Italy	ANA	3	9,740	plan this
Vienna VIE	Austria	ANA	3	9,143	plan this
Mumbai BOM	India	Air India	4	6,733	the pair page
Stockholm ARN	Sweden	ANA	4	8,168	plan this

The nine destinations out of HND 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.

The way back from HND

The desk holds the return direction for 51 of the 105 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On twelve of them the return into HND runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Bangkok (BKK) at 8 out a day against 0.29 back, Jakarta (CGK) at 2.9 out a day against 0.86 back and Chicago (ORD) at 3.4 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Osaka (KIX) files 15.1 a day back into HND against 2 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HND

HND keeps Asia/Tokyo time, five hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 14:00 at HND, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for four hours. A customs question raised in the last five hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at HND until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at HND

HND does not close. The note the desk holds for it, checked 2026-09-07, reads: Operates around the clock; the preferred Tokyo gate for a late departure.

7 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 HND that lands inside it leaves around 19:27, on a modelled block of 12h 03m. Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from HND that lands inside it leaves around 12:05, on a modelled block of 9h 55m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from HND that lands inside it leaves around 18:48, on a modelled block of 12h 12m. Those three departure times out of HND 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 HND turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 24 airport pair pages that start or end at HND, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Tokyo to Chitose / Tomakomai (CTS), Tokyo to Fukuoka (FUK) and Tokyo to Naha (OKA).

14 courier postings name HND as the airport a courier here flies from: Yokohama, Chiba and Aihara.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HND already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 105 destinations above.