The sector is held by China Southern Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to SZX Shenzhen
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Shenzhen Bao'an, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 840 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 34m
- Door to door
- 8h 19m
What HAN to SZX looks like
The HAN to SZX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Shenzhen SZX is a short sector of 840 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 840 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 34m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Shenzhen SZX has 157 destinations and 574.7 departures a day.
Shenzhen 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 SZX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to SZX | 6.57 | 46 | China Southern Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines |
| SZX to HAN | 6.57 | 46 | China Southern Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, China Southern Airlines and Shenzhen Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 6.6 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 92 departures a week on HAN to SZX, 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 1h 34m block time on HAN to SZX. 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 SZX in the air, estimated | 94 min | 6h 04m |
| Formalities at SZX | 90 min | 7h 34m |
| Delivery run in Shenzhen | 45 min | 8h 19m |
| Door to door | 499 min | 8h 19m |
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 SZX is 8h 19m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shenzhen at about 11:34 local and at the door by 13:49 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shenzhen, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 13:11 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. 32 of them join HAN to SZX.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to SZX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 12.71 | 1,662 | 4h 28m |
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 20.29 | 2,012 | 4h 49m |
| Wuhan WUH | 0.57 | 7.29 | 2,261 | 5h 09m |
| Chengdu TFU | 1.43 | 8.14 | 2,283 | 5h 10m |
| Taipei TPE | 8.43 | 4.29 | 2,435 | 5h 21m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 76.86 | 2.57 | 2,679 | 5h 25m |
With 6.6 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.
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kunming KMG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KMG the routing covers 1,662 km against the 840 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 28m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 54m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Chongqing CKG at 4h 49m and Wuhan WUH at 5h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shenzhen, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Hanoi to Shenzhen 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 SZX 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 SZX airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The written lane, Dubai to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Munich to Shenzhen
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and SZX: 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.