The sector is held by Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to KHI Karachi
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Jinnah International, Pakistan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,354 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 30m
- Door to door
- 10h 15m
What DAC to KHI looks like
The DAC to KHI sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Karachi KHI is a medium haul sector of 2,354 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,354 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 30m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Karachi KHI has 28 destinations and 66.4 departures a day.
Dhaka carries about 2.6 times the departures of Karachi, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Karachi is one hour 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 KHI from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to KHI | 0.29 | 2 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines |
| KHI to DAC | 0.43 | 3 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: DAC to KHI runs 2 times a week, the return runs 3 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 2 times 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 5 departures a week on DAC to KHI, 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 30m block time on DAC to KHI. 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 KHI in the air, estimated | 210 min | 8h 00m |
| Formalities at KHI | 90 min | 9h 30m |
| Delivery run in Karachi | 45 min | 10h 15m |
| Door to door | 615 min | 10h 15m |
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 KHI is 10h 15m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Karachi at about 11:30 local and at the door by 13:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Karachi, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 13:15 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. 17 of them join DAC to KHI.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to KHI, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscat MCT | 2.86 | 1.29 | 4,174 | 7h 06m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 6.71 | 3.43 | 4,694 | 7h 44m |
| Colombo CMB | 2 | 0.57 | 4,557 | 7h 49m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 2.23 | 3.43 | 4,883 | 8h 13m |
| Dubai DXB | 8.29 | 7.71 | 4,725 | 8h 17m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 0.86 | 5,295 | 8h 44m |
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Muscat MCT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MCT the routing covers 4,174 km against the 2,354 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 36m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Sharjah SHJ at 7h 44m and Colombo CMB at 7h 49m 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 Karachi 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 KHI 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 KHI airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Pakistan
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Dubai to Karachi
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and KHI: 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.