The sector is held by Silk Way West.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to GYD Baku
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Heydar Aliyev International, Azerbaijan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 4,177 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 32m
- Door to door
- 12h 17m
What DAC to GYD looks like
The DAC to GYD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Baku GYD is a long haul sector of 4,177 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,177 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 32m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Baku GYD has 64 destinations and 84.9 departures a day.
Baku is 2 hours behind of Dhaka all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DAC to GYD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to GYD | 0.14 | 1 | Silk Way West |
| GYD to DAC | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Silk Way West, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg GYD to DAC carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on DAC to GYD, 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 5h 32m block time on DAC to GYD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DAC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DAC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DAC to GYD in the air, estimated | 332 min | 10h 02m |
| Formalities at GYD | 90 min | 11h 32m |
| Delivery run in Baku | 45 min | 12h 17m |
| Door to door | 737 min | 12h 17m |
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 DAC to GYD is 12h 17m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Baku at about 12:32 local and at the door by 14:47 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Baku, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 12:13 local.
At 12h 17m 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. 16 of them join DAC to GYD.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to GYD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi DEL | 2.29 | 1.14 | 4,219 | 7h 38m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 6.71 | 1.71 | 5,279 | 8h 29m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 0.71 | 5,109 | 8h 33m |
| Dubai DXB | 8.29 | 2.57 | 5,299 | 9h 01m |
| Doha DOH | 4.43 | 1.14 | 5,609 | 9h 08m |
| Riyadh RUH | 5 | 1 | 6,160 | 9h 33m |
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Delhi DEL, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DEL the routing covers 4,219 km against the 4,177 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 38m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 06m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Sharjah SHJ at 8h 29m and Mumbai BOM at 8h 33m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
Plan Dhaka to Baku 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 DAC to GYD 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 DAC airport entry
- The GYD airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Azerbaijan
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Dubai to Baku
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and GYD: Dhaka to Singapore, Dhaka to Riyadh, Abu Dhabi to Dhaka, Dhaka to Jeddah, Dhaka to Doha, Kuala Lumpur to Dhaka, Bangkok to Dhaka, Guangzhou to Dhaka.