The sector is held by VietJetAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLR Bangalore to SGN Ho Chi Minh City
Kempegowda International, India, to Tan Son Nhat International, Vietnam. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,158 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 18m
- Door to door
- 11h 03m
What BLR to SGN looks like
The BLR to SGN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangalore BLR to Ho Chi Minh City SGN is a medium haul sector of 3,158 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,158 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 18m.
Bangalore BLR is a large airport in the network held here, 96 scheduled destinations and 391.8 departures a day. Ho Chi Minh City SGN has 77 destinations and 380.1 departures a day.
Ho Chi Minh City is 1.5 hours ahead of Bangalore 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 BLR to SGN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLR to SGN | 0.71 | 5 | VietJetAir |
| SGN to BLR | 0.71 | 5 | VietJetAir |
One carrier holds the sector, VietJetAir, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on BLR to SGN, 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 18m block time on BLR to SGN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BLR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BLR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BLR to SGN in the air, estimated | 258 min | 8h 48m |
| Formalities at SGN | 90 min | 10h 18m |
| Delivery run in Ho Chi Minh City | 45 min | 11h 03m |
| Door to door | 663 min | 11h 03m |
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 BLR to SGN is 11h 03m.
A courier who leaves Bangalore at 09:00 local is on the ground in Ho Chi Minh City at about 14:48 local and at the door by 17:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Ho Chi Minh City, the last useful departure from Bangalore is around 09:57 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. 20 of them join BLR to SGN.
| Connecting at | BLR to hub, flights a day | Hub to SGN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phuket HKT | 3.14 | 1.86 | 3,283 | 6h 12m |
| Bangkok DMK | 0.71 | 3.43 | 3,217 | 6h 15m |
| Bangkok BKK | 3 | 13.86 | 3,208 | 6h 29m |
| Colombo CMB | 2.71 | 0.71 | 3,676 | 6h 50m |
| Hanoi HAN | 0.86 | 76.86 | 4,270 | 7h 14m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 4.14 | 11.43 | 3,934 | 7h 16m |
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Phuket HKT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through HKT the routing covers 3,283 km against the 3,158 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 12m 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 54m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bangkok DMK at 6h 15m and Bangkok BKK at 6h 29m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh PNH is 213 km away by great circle and carries 25 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bangalore to Ho Chi Minh City 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 BLR to SGN 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 BLR airport entry
- The SGN airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Bangalore
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Bangalore
- The written lane, Dubai to Bangalore
- The route calculator
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