The sector is held by Air India, Biman Bangladesh Airlines and IndiGo.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to DEL Delhi
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,425 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 19m
- Door to door
- 9h 04m
What DAC to DEL looks like
The DAC to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Delhi DEL is a medium haul sector of 1,425 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,425 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 19m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi carries about 3.5 times the departures of Dhaka, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Delhi 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 DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to DEL | 2.29 | 16 | Air India, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, IndiGo |
| DEL to DAC | 2.29 | 16 | Air India, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, IndiGo |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on DAC to DEL, 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 19m block time on DAC to DEL. 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 DEL in the air, estimated | 139 min | 6h 49m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 8h 19m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 9h 04m |
| Door to door | 544 min | 9h 04m |
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 DEL is 9h 04m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 10:49 local and at the door by 13:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 13:56 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. 30 of them join DAC to DEL.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.43 | 12 | 1,477 | 4h 00m |
| Kolkata CCU | 2.86 | 20.09 | 1,552 | 4h 02m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 51.45 | 3,026 | 6h 07m |
| Chennai MAA | 1.86 | 18.57 | 3,378 | 6h 19m |
| Colombo CMB | 2 | 4.43 | 4,562 | 7h 50m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 10.14 | 4,517 | 8h 01m |
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.
30 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kathmandu KTM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KTM the routing covers 1,477 km against the 1,425 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 00m 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 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kolkata CCU at 4h 02m and Mumbai BOM at 6h 07m 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 Delhi 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 DEL 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 DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and DEL: 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.