The sector is held by Thai AirAsia and Thai Lion Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DMK Bangkok to SZX Shenzhen
Don Mueang International, Thailand, to Shenzhen Bao'an, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,697 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 40m
- Door to door
- 9h 25m
What DMK to SZX looks like
The DMK to SZX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bangkok DMK to Shenzhen SZX is a medium haul sector of 1,697 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,697 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 40m.
Bangkok DMK is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 61 scheduled destinations and 218.3 departures a day. Shenzhen SZX has 157 destinations and 574.7 departures a day.
Shenzhen carries about 2.6 times the departures of Bangkok, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Shenzhen is one hour ahead of Bangkok 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 DMK to SZX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMK to SZX | 1 | 7 | Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air |
| SZX to DMK | 0.86 | 6 | Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air |
Two carriers hold the sector, Thai AirAsia and Thai Lion Air, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 13 departures a week on DMK to SZX, 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 40m block time on DMK to SZX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DMK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DMK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DMK to SZX in the air, estimated | 160 min | 7h 10m |
| Formalities at SZX | 90 min | 8h 40m |
| Delivery run in Shenzhen | 45 min | 9h 25m |
| Door to door | 565 min | 9h 25m |
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 DMK to SZX is 9h 25m.
A courier who leaves Bangkok at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shenzhen at about 12:40 local and at the door by 14:55 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shenzhen, the last useful departure from Bangkok is around 12:05 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. 22 of them join DMK to SZX.
| Connecting at | DMK to hub, flights a day | Hub to SZX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi HAN | 2.29 | 6.57 | 1,822 | 4h 19m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 3.43 | 2.57 | 2,260 | 5h 01m |
| Kunming KMG | 0.71 | 12.71 | 2,408 | 5h 19m |
| Chongqing CKG | 1.71 | 20.29 | 2,927 | 5h 59m |
| Chengdu TFU | 1.71 | 8.14 | 3,128 | 6h 15m |
| Penang PEN | 2.29 | 1.14 | 3,374 | 6h 18m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DMK in the afternoon actually flies on.
22 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Hanoi HAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through HAN the routing covers 1,822 km against the 1,697 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 19m 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, Ho Chi Minh City SGN at 5h 01m and Kunming KMG at 5h 19m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bangkok, Bangkok BKK is 30 km away by great circle and carries 138 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Shenzhen, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bangkok to Shenzhen 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 DMK to SZX 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 DMK airport entry
- The SZX airport entry
- Hand carry into Thailand
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Munich to Shenzhen
- The route calculator
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