The sector is held by Air China.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to HGH Hangzhou
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Hangzhou Xiaoshan, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,772 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 46m
- Door to door
- 9h 31m
What HAN to HGH looks like
The HAN to HGH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Hangzhou HGH is a medium haul sector of 1,772 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,772 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 46m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Hangzhou HGH has 117 destinations and 460.5 departures a day.
Hangzhou 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 HGH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to HGH | 1.14 | 8 | Air China |
| HGH to HAN | 1 | 7 | Air China |
One carrier holds the sector, Air China, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 15 departures a week on HAN to HGH, 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 46m block time on HAN to HGH. 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 HGH in the air, estimated | 166 min | 7h 16m |
| Formalities at HGH | 90 min | 8h 46m |
| Delivery run in Hangzhou | 45 min | 9h 31m |
| Door to door | 571 min | 9h 31m |
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 HGH is 9h 31m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hangzhou at about 12:46 local and at the door by 15:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hangzhou, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 11:59 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. 29 of them join HAN to HGH.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to HGH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macau MFM | 1.14 | 2.43 | 1,939 | 4h 28m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 8.29 | 37.86 | 1,846 | 4h 37m |
| Xiamen XMN | 1.14 | 8 | 1,987 | 4h 40m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 6.57 | 33.43 | 1,911 | 4h 41m |
| Changsha CSX | 0.86 | 1 | 1,813 | 4h 43m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 5.71 | 8 | 1,940 | 4h 44m |
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.
29 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Macau MFM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through MFM the routing covers 1,939 km against the 1,772 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 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 1h 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Guangzhou CAN at 4h 37m and Xiamen XMN at 4h 40m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Hangzhou, Shanghai SHA is 138 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Hanoi to Hangzhou 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 HGH 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 HGH airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and HGH: 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.