The sector is held by Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, VietJetAir and Vietnam Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to PVG Shanghai
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,937 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 58m
- Door to door
- 9h 43m
What HAN to PVG looks like
The HAN to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Shanghai PVG is a medium haul sector of 1,937 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,937 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 58m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Shanghai 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 PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to PVG | 9.14 | 64 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines |
| PVG to HAN | 9.14 | 64 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 9.1 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 128 departures a week on HAN to PVG, 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 58m block time on HAN to PVG. 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 PVG in the air, estimated | 178 min | 7h 28m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 8h 58m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 9h 43m |
| Door to door | 583 min | 9h 43m |
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 PVG is 9h 43m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 12:58 local and at the door by 15:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 11:47 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. 50 of them join HAN to PVG.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macau MFM | 1.14 | 4.14 | 2,101 | 4h 41m |
| Xiamen XMN | 1.14 | 3 | 2,133 | 4h 44m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 1.14 | 1.14 | 1,938 | 4h 46m |
| Changsha CSX | 0.86 | 4.14 | 1,969 | 4h 46m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 8.29 | 10.29 | 2,011 | 4h 49m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 6.57 | 17.86 | 2,073 | 4h 53m |
With 9.1 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.
50 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 2,101 km against the 1,937 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 41m 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 43m 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 44m and Hangzhou HGH at 4h 46m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 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.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Hanoi to Shanghai 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 PVG 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 PVG airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and PVG: Seoul to Hanoi, Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi to Taipei, Singapore to Hanoi, Bangkok to Hanoi, Frankfurt to Hanoi, Hanoi to Guangzhou, Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur.