VTE Vientiane

How deep the VTE board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from VTE. This reads the same 25 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 16of the 25 destinations are flown by one airline
• 14destinations run less than once a day
• 2destinations have four or more departures a day
• 48%of the destinations name Lao Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at VTE

21 airlines appear on the VTE board and they do not hold it evenly. Lao Airlines is on 12 of the 25 destinations, 48 per cent of them, and on 5 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 23.9 of the 32.3 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 China Eastern Airlines on 2 destinations. 17 of the 21 airlines at VTE 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 12 of the 25 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a VTE sector is usually another Lao 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 VTE than the destination count does.

How much of the VTE board is daily

Of the 25 destinations, 11 are flown at least once a day and 14 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the VTE board is flown 4 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: VTE to Yangon (RGN) 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 17.6 of the 32.3 departures a day, 54.4 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves VTE 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
Shantou SWA	China	Lao Airlines	1	1,575	plan this
Yangon RGN	Myanmar	Myanmar Airways International	1	693	plan this
Haikou HAK	China	Hainan Airlines	2	858	plan this
Jinghong JHG	China	Qingdao Airlines	2	482	plan this
Shenzhen SZX	China	Donghai Airlines	2	1,281	plan this
Singapore SIN	Singapore	Scoot	2	1,857	plan this
Changsha CSX	China	Lao Airlines	3	1,571	plan this
Changzhou CZX	China	Lao Airlines	3	2,320	plan this
Da Nang DAD	Vietnam	Lao Airlines	3	637	plan this
Kuala Lumpur KUL	Malaysia	AirAsia	3	1,697	plan this

The ten destinations out of VTE 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. 2 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from VTE

The desk holds the return direction for 18 of the 25 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 18 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through VTE is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Chongqing (CKG) files 1 a day back into VTE against 0.33 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at VTE

VTE keeps Asia/Vientiane time, three hours ahead of Dubai all year.

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

Where VTE turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Laos country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 2 airport pair pages that start or end at VTE, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Vientiane to Hanoi (HAN) and Vientiane to Ho Chi Minh City (SGN).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with VTE already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 25 destinations above.