The sector is held by Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to MED Medina
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 5,112 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 39m
- Door to door
- 13h 24m
What DAC to MED looks like
The DAC to MED sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Medina MED is a long haul sector of 5,112 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 5,112 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 39m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Medina MED has 65 destinations and 107.5 departures a day.
Medina is 3 hours behind of Dhaka all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 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 MED from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to MED | 1.57 | 11 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
| MED to DAC | 1.57 | 11 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 22 departures a week on DAC to MED, 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 6h 39m block time on DAC to MED. 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 MED in the air, estimated | 399 min | 11h 09m |
| Formalities at MED | 90 min | 12h 39m |
| Delivery run in Medina | 45 min | 13h 24m |
| Door to door | 804 min | 13h 24m |
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 MED is 13h 24m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Medina at about 12:39 local and at the door by 14:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Medina, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 12:06 local.
At 13h 24m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 18 of them join DAC to MED.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to MED, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dammam DMM | 1.14 | 5.86 | 5,115 | 8h 14m |
| Manama BAH | 1.14 | 2.29 | 5,113 | 8h 14m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 6.71 | 2.29 | 5,117 | 8h 16m |
| Muscat MCT | 2.86 | 2.14 | 5,150 | 8h 21m |
| Kuwait City KWI | 2.71 | 1.14 | 5,211 | 8h 21m |
| Riyadh RUH | 5 | 19 | 5,116 | 8h 22m |
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.
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dammam DMM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DMM the routing covers 5,115 km against the 5,112 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 14m 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 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Manama BAH at 8h 14m and Sharjah SHJ at 8h 16m 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 Medina 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 MED 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 MED airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Saudi Arabia
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and MED: 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.