The sector is held by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Oman Air, SalamAir and US-Bangla Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to MCT Muscat
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Muscat International, Oman. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,262 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 26m
- Door to door
- 11h 11m
What DAC to MCT looks like
The DAC to MCT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Muscat MCT is a medium haul sector of 3,262 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,262 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 26m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Muscat MCT has 73 destinations and 122.1 departures a day.
Muscat is 2 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 MCT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to MCT | 2.86 | 20 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Oman Air, SalamAir, US-Bangla Airlines |
| MCT to DAC | 2.43 | 17 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Oman Air, SalamAir, US-Bangla Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 37 departures a week on DAC to MCT, 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 26m block time on DAC to MCT. 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 MCT in the air, estimated | 266 min | 8h 56m |
| Formalities at MCT | 90 min | 10h 26m |
| Delivery run in Muscat | 45 min | 11h 11m |
| Door to door | 671 min | 11h 11m |
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 MCT is 11h 11m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Muscat at about 11:26 local and at the door by 13:41 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Muscat, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 13:19 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. 26 of them join DAC to MCT.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to MCT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chittagong CGP | 19.86 | 2.71 | 3,658 | 6h 28m |
| Delhi DEL | 2.29 | 2.21 | 3,382 | 6h 34m |
| Mumbai BOM | 1.29 | 4.29 | 3,478 | 6h 42m |
| Sharjah SHJ | 6.71 | 4.57 | 3,861 | 6h 44m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 2.23 | 2.71 | 3,999 | 7h 10m |
| Dubai DXB | 8.29 | 6.71 | 3,886 | 7h 17m |
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.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Chittagong CGP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through CGP the routing covers 3,658 km against the 3,262 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 28m 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 02m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Delhi DEL at 6h 34m 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 Muscat 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 MCT 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 MCT airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Oman
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Muscat
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and MCT: 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.