The sector is held by Air China, Vietnam Airlines and VietJetAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to PEK Beijing
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Capital International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,332 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 29m
- Door to door
- 10h 14m
What HAN to PEK looks like
The HAN to PEK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Beijing PEK is a medium haul sector of 2,332 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,332 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 29m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Beijing PEK has 201 destinations and 651.4 departures a day.
Beijing is one hour ahead of Hanoi 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 HAN to PEK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to PEK | 2.01 | 14.1 | Air China, Vietnam Airlines, VietJetAir |
| PEK to HAN | 2 | 14 | Air China, Vietnam Airlines |
3 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 28.1 departures a week on HAN to PEK, 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 3h 29m block time on HAN to PEK. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HAN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HAN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HAN to PEK in the air, estimated | 209 min | 7h 59m |
| Formalities at PEK | 90 min | 9h 29m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 10h 14m |
| Door to door | 614 min | 10h 14m |
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 HAN to PEK is 10h 14m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 13:29 local and at the door by 15:44 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 11:16 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. 42 of them join HAN to PEK.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to PEK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 21.29 | 2,413 | 5h 20m |
| Wuhan WUH | 0.57 | 7.71 | 2,410 | 5h 20m |
| Changsha CSX | 0.86 | 13.57 | 2,435 | 5h 22m |
| Chengdu TFU | 1.43 | 5.86 | 2,565 | 5h 31m |
| Macau MFM | 1.14 | 1.43 | 2,825 | 5h 36m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 8.29 | 22.29 | 2,689 | 5h 41m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at HAN in the afternoon actually flies on.
42 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 about once a day.
Through CKG the routing covers 2,413 km against the 2,332 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Wuhan WUH at 5h 20m and Changsha CSX at 5h 22m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Beijing, Beijing PKX is 65 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Hanoi to Beijing 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 HAN to PEK 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 HAN airport entry
- The PEK airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The written lane, Dubai to Beijing
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and PEK: Seoul to Hanoi, Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi to Taipei, Singapore to Hanoi, Bangkok to Hanoi, Hanoi to Shanghai, Frankfurt to Hanoi, Hanoi to Guangzhou.