The sector is held by Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DAC Dhaka to NRT Tokyo
Hazrat Shahjalal International, Bangladesh, to Narita International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 4,946 km
- Block, estimated
- 6h 27m
- Door to door
- 13h 12m
What DAC to NRT looks like
The DAC to NRT sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Dhaka DAC to Tokyo NRT is a long haul sector of 4,946 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,946 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 6h 27m.
Dhaka DAC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 172.2 departures a day. Tokyo NRT has 117 destinations and 361.5 departures a day.
Tokyo is 3 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 NRT from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAC to NRT | 0.14 | 1 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines |
| NRT to DAC | 0.14 | 1 | Biman Bangladesh Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
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 2 departures a week on DAC to NRT, 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 27m block time on DAC to NRT. 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 NRT in the air, estimated | 387 min | 10h 57m |
| Formalities at NRT | 90 min | 12h 27m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 13h 12m |
| Door to door | 792 min | 13h 12m |
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 NRT is 13h 12m.
A courier who leaves Dhaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 18:27 local and at the door by 20:42 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, the last useful departure from Dhaka is around 06:18 local.
At 13h 12m 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. 16 of them join DAC to NRT.
| Connecting at | DAC to hub, flights a day | Hub to NRT, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 0.71 | 4,948 | 8h 20m |
| Beijing PEK | 0.71 | 1.29 | 5,175 | 8h 54m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.86 | 0.71 | 5,275 | 9h 00m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 1 | 22.86 | 5,371 | 9h 07m |
| Kathmandu KTM | 1.43 | 0.57 | 5,875 | 9h 15m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.14 | 8.14 | 6,217 | 9h 51m |
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Chongqing CKG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through CKG the routing covers 4,948 km against the 4,946 km nonstop track and takes about 8h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Beijing PEK at 8h 54m and Guangzhou CAN at 9h 00m 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 Tokyo, Tokyo HND is 60 km away by great circle and carries 105 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Tokyo NRT is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, which matters here because an aircraft leaving Dhaka late arrives into a closed airport rather than a quiet one.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Read back down the sector, a departure from Dhaka later than about 13:33 local arrives at NRT after it has closed for the night, on the 6h 27m block time above.
Plan Dhaka to Tokyo 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 NRT 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 NRT airport entry
- Hand carry into Bangladesh
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Dubai to Dhaka
- The written lane, Sharjah to Dhaka
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through DAC and NRT: 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.