The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to KMG Kunming
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Kunming Changshui, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,275 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 08m
- Door to door
- 8h 53m
What DAC to KMG looks like
The DAC to KMG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Kunming KMG is a medium haul sector of 1,275 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,275 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 08m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Kunming KMG has 130 destinations and 466.1 departures a day.
Kunming carries about 2.7 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.
Kunming is 2 hours ahead 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 KMG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to KMG | 1.14 | 8 | China Eastern Airlines |
| KMG to DAC | 1.14 | 8 | China Eastern Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, China Eastern Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on DAC to KMG, 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 08m block time on DAC to KMG. 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 KMG in the air, estimated | 128 min | 6h 38m |
| Formalities at KMG | 90 min | 8h 08m |
| Delivery run in Kunming | 45 min | 8h 53m |
| Door to door | 533 min | 8h 53m |
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 KMG is 8h 53m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Kunming at about 13:08 local and at the door by 15:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Kunming, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 11:37 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. 14 of them join DAC to KMG.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to KMG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolkata CCU | 2.86 | 1 | 1,736 | 4h 16m |
| Chengdu CTU | 0.57 | 9.71 | 2,150 | 4h 52m |
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.43 | 0.57 | 2,434 | 5h 14m |
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 4.57 | 2,369 | 5h 24m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 6.86 | 2,858 | 5h 54m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.86 | 20.71 | 3,399 | 6h 36m |
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.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kolkata CCU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CCU the routing covers 1,736 km against the 1,275 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 08m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chengdu CTU at 4h 52m and Kathmandu KTM at 5h 14m 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 Kunming 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 KMG 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 KMG airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and KMG: 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.