The sector is held by Maldivian and US-Bangla Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to MLE Male
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Ibrahim Nasir International, the Maldives. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,837 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 07m
- Door to door
- 10h 52m
What DAC to MLE looks like
The DAC to MLE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Male MLE is a medium haul sector of 2,837 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,837 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 07m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Male MLE has 38 destinations and 60.9 departures a day.
Dhaka carries about 2.8 times the departures of Male, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Male is one hour behind of Dhaka all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the rest of the world, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on DAC to MLE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to MLE | 0.86 | 6 | Maldivian, US-Bangla Airlines |
| MLE to DAC | 0.29 | 2 | Maldivian |
Two carriers hold the sector, Maldivian and US-Bangla Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: DAC to MLE runs 6 times a week, the return runs 2 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on DAC to MLE, 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 4h 07m block time on DAC to MLE. 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 MLE in the air, estimated | 247 min | 8h 37m |
| Formalities at MLE | 90 min | 10h 07m |
| Delivery run in Male | 45 min | 10h 52m |
| Door to door | 652 min | 10h 52m |
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 MLE is 10h 52m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Male at about 12:07 local and at the door by 14:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Male, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 12:38 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. 19 of them join DAC to MLE.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to MLE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombo CMB | 2 | 8.57 | 2,944 | 5h 55m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 0.86 | 3,546 | 6h 47m |
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 0.57 | 5,181 | 8h 35m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 7.14 | 4.14 | 5,774 | 9h 23m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 6.71 | 1.71 | 6,558 | 9h 53m |
| Singapore SIN | 4 | 2.29 | 6,296 | 10h 03m |
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Colombo CMB, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through CMB the routing covers 2,944 km against the 2,837 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 55m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Mumbai BOM at 6h 47m and Kunming KMG at 8h 35m 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 Male 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 MLE 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 MLE airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into the Maldives
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Male
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and MLE: 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.