At the cruise speed this site models for 2,924 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 14m.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to NKG Nanjing
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,924 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 14m
- Door to door
- 10h 59m
What DAC to NKG looks like
The DAC to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Nanjing NKG is a medium haul sector of 2,924 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Nanjing 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 NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to NKG | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
| NKG to DAC | 0 | 0 | none held |
No operating carrier is recorded on the nonstop, which is why the connecting routings below are the plan for DAC to NKG rather than the fallback.
The return leg NKG to DAC carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on DAC to NKG, 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 14m block time on DAC to NKG. 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 NKG in the air, estimated | 254 min | 8h 44m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 10h 14m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 10h 59m |
| Door to door | 659 min | 10h 59m |
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 NKG is 10h 59m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 15:14 local and at the door by 17:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 09:31 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. 10 of them join DAC to NKG.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chengdu CTU | 0.57 | 12.29 | 2,957 | 5h 46m |
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 14.14 | 2,927 | 5h 59m |
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 15.43 | 2,997 | 6h 05m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.86 | 26.14 | 3,409 | 6h 37m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 1 | 4.14 | 3,566 | 6h 49m |
| Beijing PEK | 0.71 | 5.86 | 3,989 | 7h 23m |
10 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Chengdu CTU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through CTU the routing covers 2,957 km against the 2,924 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 46m 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 32m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chongqing CKG at 5h 59m and Kunming KMG at 6h 05m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Nanjing, Hangzhou HGH is 225 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Dhaka to Nanjing 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 NKG 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 NKG 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 NKG: 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.