The sector is held by Air India.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DEL Delhi to MNL Manila
Indira Gandhi International, India, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 4,773 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 15m
- Door to door
- 13h 00m
What DEL to MNL looks like
The DEL to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Delhi DEL to Manila MNL is a long haul sector of 4,773 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,773 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 15m.
Delhi DEL is a large airport in the network held here, 133 scheduled destinations and 607.8 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila is 2.5 hours ahead of Delhi 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 DEL to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEL to MNL | 1.14 | 8 | Air India |
| MNL to DEL | 1.14 | 8 | Air India |
One carrier holds the sector, Air India, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on DEL to MNL, 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 6h 15m block time on DEL to MNL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DEL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DEL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DEL to MNL in the air, estimated | 375 min | 10h 45m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 12h 15m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 13h 00m |
| Door to door | 780 min | 13h 00m |
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 DEL to MNL is 13h 00m.
A courier who leaves Delhi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 17:45 local and at the door by 20:00 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Delhi is around 07:00 local.
At 13h 00m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 30 of them join DEL to MNL.
| Connecting at | DEL to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi HAN | 2.64 | 4.29 | 4,773 | 7h 53m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.54 | 15.71 | 4,892 | 8h 14m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 1.14 | 4.71 | 4,928 | 8h 17m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 1.87 | 4.57 | 5,262 | 8h 27m |
| Bangkok DMK | 0.71 | 1.29 | 5,122 | 8h 33m |
| Bangkok BKK | 10.14 | 8.57 | 5,137 | 8h 49m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DEL in the afternoon actually flies on.
30 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 4,773 km against the 4,773 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 53m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Hong Kong HKG at 8h 14m and Guangzhou CAN at 8h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Delhi to Manila 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 DEL to MNL 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 DEL airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The written lane, Delhi to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through DEL and MNL: London to Delhi, Bangalore to Delhi, Mumbai to Delhi, Paris to Delhi, Singapore to Delhi, Amsterdam to Delhi, Hyderabad to Delhi, Zurich to Delhi.