The sector is held by Jetstar.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DPS Bali to DRW Darwin
Ngurah Rai International, Indonesia, to Darwin International, Australia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,764 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 45m
- Door to door
- 9h 30m
What DPS to DRW looks like
The DPS to DRW sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bali DPS to Darwin DRW is a medium haul sector of 1,764 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,764 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 45m.
Bali DPS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 61 scheduled destinations and 211.1 departures a day. Darwin DRW has 21 destinations and 30.5 departures a day.
Bali carries about 6.9 times the departures of Darwin, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Darwin is 1.5 hours ahead of Bali all year.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DPS to DRW from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DPS to DRW | 0.71 | 5 | Jetstar |
| DRW to DPS | 0.59 | 4.1 | Jetstar |
One carrier holds the sector, Jetstar, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.1 departures a week on DPS to DRW, 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 2h 45m block time on DPS to DRW. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DPS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DPS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DPS to DRW in the air, estimated | 165 min | 7h 15m |
| Formalities at DRW | 90 min | 8h 45m |
| Delivery run in Darwin | 45 min | 9h 30m |
| Door to door | 570 min | 9h 30m |
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 DPS to DRW is 9h 30m.
A courier who leaves Bali at 09:00 local is on the ground in Darwin at about 13:15 local and at the door by 15:30 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Darwin, the last useful departure from Bali is around 11:30 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. 9 of them join DPS to DRW.
| Connecting at | DPS to hub, flights a day | Hub to DRW, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns CNS | 0.71 | 1.43 | 5,108 | 8h 16m |
| Singapore SIN | 18.14 | 1.57 | 5,010 | 8h 24m |
| Perth PER | 12.57 | 3.57 | 5,232 | 8h 41m |
| Adelaide ADL | 2 | 3.43 | 6,382 | 9h 53m |
| Brisbane BNE | 3.57 | 3.71 | 7,339 | 11h 02m |
| Melbourne MEL | 9 | 4 | 7,514 | 11h 03m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Cairns CNS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through CNS the routing covers 5,108 km against the 1,764 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 5h 31m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Singapore SIN at 8h 24m and Perth PER at 8h 41m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
Bali DPS, nyepi closure: The airport closes for 24 hours once a year for Nyepi, the Balinese day of silence, in March or April; the date moves with the Balinese calendar. No flights operate and nothing moves on the island.
Plan Bali to Darwin 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.
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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 DPS to DRW 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 DPS airport entry
- The DRW airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into Australia
- The written lane, Bali to Singapore
- The written lane, Bali to Sydney
- The written lane, Dubai to Bali
- The route calculator
More pairs through DPS and DRW: Jakarta to Bali, Bali to Kuala Lumpur, Seoul to Bali, Bali to Abu Dhabi, Bali to Perth, Bali to Melbourne, Taipei to Bali, Doha to Bali.