The sector is held by FitsAir and SriLankan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to CMB Colombo
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Bandaranaike International, Sri Lanka. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,166 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 16m
- Door to door
- 10h 01m
What DAC to CMB looks like
The DAC to CMB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Colombo CMB is a medium haul sector of 2,166 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,166 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 16m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Colombo CMB has 45 destinations and 93.2 departures a day.
Colombo is 0.5 hours behind of Dhaka 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 DAC to CMB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to CMB | 2 | 14 | FitsAir, SriLankan Airlines |
| CMB to DAC | 1.57 | 11 | FitsAir, SriLankan Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, FitsAir and SriLankan Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 25 departures a week on DAC to CMB, 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 3h 16m block time on DAC to CMB. 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 CMB in the air, estimated | 196 min | 7h 46m |
| Formalities at CMB | 90 min | 9h 16m |
| Delivery run in Colombo | 45 min | 10h 01m |
| Door to door | 601 min | 10h 01m |
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 CMB is 10h 01m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Colombo at about 11:46 local and at the door by 14:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Colombo, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 12:59 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. 25 of them join DAC to CMB.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chennai MAA | 1.86 | 7.57 | 2,264 | 5h 01m |
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.43 | 0.57 | 3,015 | 5h 58m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 3.57 | 3,414 | 6h 37m |
| Male MLE | 0.86 | 8.57 | 3,615 | 6h 46m |
| Delhi DEL | 2.29 | 4.57 | 3,821 | 7h 08m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 3.43 | 3,960 | 7h 18m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at DAC in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Chennai MAA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MAA the routing covers 2,264 km against the 2,166 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 01m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kathmandu KTM at 5h 58m and Mumbai BOM at 6h 37m 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 Colombo 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.
min
min
min
min
Restrictions
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 CMB 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 CMB airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Sri Lanka
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Colombo
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and CMB: Singapore to Colombo, Colombo to Doha, Kuala Lumpur to Colombo, Frankfurt to Colombo, Colombo to Delhi, Colombo to Kuwait City, Colombo to Chennai, Bangkok to Colombo.