The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air and China Southern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CAN Guangzhou to MNL Manila
Guangzhou Baiyun, China, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,278 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 08m
- Door to door
- 8h 53m
What CAN to MNL looks like
The CAN to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Guangzhou CAN to Manila MNL is a medium haul sector of 1,278 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,278 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 08m.
Guangzhou CAN is a major hub in the network held here, 198 scheduled destinations and 823.8 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Guangzhou and Manila keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 CAN to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN to MNL | 4.71 | 33 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Southern Airlines |
| MNL to CAN | 4.71 | 33 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Southern Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Cebu Pacific Air and China Southern Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 4.7 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 65.9 departures a week on CAN to MNL, 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 2h 08m block time on CAN to MNL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CAN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CAN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CAN to MNL in the air, estimated | 128 min | 6h 38m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 8h 08m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 8h 53m |
| Door to door | 533 min | 8h 53m |
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 CAN to MNL is 8h 53m.
A courier who leaves Guangzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 11:08 local and at the door by 13:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Guangzhou is around 13:37 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. 40 of them join CAN to MNL.
| Connecting at | CAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.43 | 15.71 | 1,282 | 3h 55m |
| Xiamen XMN | 6 | 2.57 | 1,663 | 4h 14m |
| Taipei TPE | 0.86 | 13.14 | 2,001 | 4h 48m |
| Hanoi HAN | 7.86 | 4.29 | 2,581 | 5h 18m |
| Kota Kinabalu BKI | 2.71 | 0.57 | 3,060 | 5h 54m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 8 | 4.57 | 3,177 | 6h 03m |
With 4.7 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
40 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Hong Kong HKG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through HKG the routing covers 1,282 km against the 1,278 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 55m 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 47m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 4h 14m and Taipei TPE at 4h 48m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Guangzhou, Shenzhen SZX is 99 km away by great circle and carries 157 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Guangzhou to Manila 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 CAN to MNL 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 CAN airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Guangzhou
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through CAN and MNL: Guangzhou to Seoul, Guangzhou to Singapore, Beijing to Guangzhou, Shanghai to Guangzhou, Guangzhou to London, Kuala Lumpur to Guangzhou, Bangkok to Guangzhou, Amsterdam to Guangzhou.