The sector is held by Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Etihad Airways and US-Bangla Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AUH Abu Dhabi to DAC Dhaka
Abu Dhabi International, the United Arab Emirates, to Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,618 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 51m
- Door to door
- 11h 36m
What AUH to DAC looks like
The AUH to DAC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Abu Dhabi AUH to Dhaka DAC is a long haul sector of 3,618 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,618 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 51m.
Abu Dhabi AUH is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 249.1 departures a day. Dhaka DAC has 49 destinations and 172.2 departures a day.
Dhaka is 2 hours ahead of Abu Dhabi all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AUH to DAC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUH to DAC | 2.29 | 16 | Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Etihad Airways, US-Bangla Airlines |
| DAC to AUH | 2.23 | 15.6 | Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Etihad Airways, US-Bangla Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 31.6 departures a week on AUH to DAC, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 4h 51m block time on AUH to DAC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AUH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AUH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AUH to DAC in the air, estimated | 291 min | 9h 21m |
| Formalities at DAC | 90 min | 10h 51m |
| Delivery run in Dhaka | 45 min | 11h 36m |
| Door to door | 696 min | 11h 36m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AUH to DAC is 11h 36m.
A courier who leaves Abu Dhabi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Dhaka at about 15:51 local and at the door by 18:06 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Dhaka, the last useful departure from Abu Dhabi is around 08:54 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 29 of them join AUH to DAC.
| Connecting at | AUH to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscat MCT | 2.71 | 2.43 | 3,643 | 6h 30m |
| Kolkata CCU | 1.86 | 2.86 | 3,681 | 6h 30m |
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.14 | 1.43 | 3,743 | 6h 41m |
| Chittagong CGP | 0.57 | 19.86 | 4,020 | 6h 54m |
| Delhi DEL | 4.71 | 2.29 | 3,702 | 6h 58m |
| Mumbai BOM | 8 | 1.43 | 3,859 | 7h 11m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at AUH in the afternoon actually flies on.
29 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Muscat MCT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through MCT the routing covers 3,643 km against the 3,618 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 30m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kolkata CCU at 6h 30m and Kathmandu KTM at 6h 41m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Abu Dhabi, Dubai DXB is 116 km away by great circle and carries 221 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Dhaka, Kolkata CCU is 239 km away by great circle and carries 51 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Abu Dhabi AUH, night operations: Operates around the clock with a strong overnight bank.
Plan Abu Dhabi to Dhaka yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
min
min
min
min
Restrictions
Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AUH to DAC in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AUH airport entry
- The DAC airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Arab Emirates
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangkok
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangalore
- The route calculator
More pairs through AUH and DAC: Abu Dhabi to Barcelona, Abu Dhabi to Kochi, Abu Dhabi to Chennai, Atlanta to Abu Dhabi, Vienna to Abu Dhabi, Brussels to Abu Dhabi, Dusseldorf to Abu Dhabi, Cairo to Abu Dhabi.