The sector is held by Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to KTM Kathmandu
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Tribhuvan International, Nepal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 662 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 28m
- Door to door
- 8h 13m
What DAC to KTM looks like
The DAC to KTM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Kathmandu KTM is a short sector of 662 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 662 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 28m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Kathmandu KTM has 35 destinations and 100.6 departures a day.
Kathmandu is 0.2 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 KTM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to KTM | 1.43 | 10 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines |
| KTM to DAC | 1.43 | 10 | 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.
Between them the two directions put about 20 departures a week on DAC to KTM, 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 1h 28m block time on DAC to KTM. 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 KTM in the air, estimated | 88 min | 5h 58m |
| Formalities at KTM | 90 min | 7h 28m |
| Delivery run in Kathmandu | 45 min | 8h 13m |
| Door to door | 493 min | 8h 13m |
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 KTM is 8h 13m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Kathmandu at about 10:13 local and at the door by 12:28 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Kathmandu, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 14:32 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. 16 of them join DAC to KTM.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to KTM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi DEL | 2.29 | 11.71 | 2,240 | 5h 06m |
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 0.57 | 3,047 | 6h 09m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 1.29 | 3,480 | 6h 42m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 2.57 | 3,798 | 7h 06m |
| Colombo CMB | 2 | 0.57 | 4,519 | 7h 46m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.86 | 1.86 | 5,168 | 8h 51m |
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.
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 twice a day.
Through DEL the routing covers 2,240 km against the 662 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 06m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 38m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Kunming KMG at 6h 09m and Mumbai BOM at 6h 42m 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 Kathmandu 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 KTM 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 KTM airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Nepal
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Kathmandu
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and KTM: 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.