The sector is held by Lao Airlines and Vietnam Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to VTE Vientiane
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Wattay International, Laos. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 495 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 14m
- Door to door
- 7h 59m
What HAN to VTE looks like
The HAN to VTE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Vientiane VTE is a short sector of 495 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 495 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 14m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Vientiane VTE has 25 destinations and 32.3 departures a day.
Hanoi carries about 11.4 times the departures of Vientiane, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Hanoi and Vientiane 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 HAN to VTE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to VTE | 2.29 | 16 | Lao Airlines, Vietnam Airlines |
| VTE to HAN | 2.29 | 16 | Lao Airlines, Vietnam Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Lao Airlines and Vietnam Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on HAN to VTE, 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 14m block time on HAN to VTE. 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 VTE in the air, estimated | 74 min | 5h 44m |
| Formalities at VTE | 90 min | 7h 14m |
| Delivery run in Vientiane | 45 min | 7h 59m |
| Door to door | 479 min | 7h 59m |
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 VTE is 7h 59m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Vientiane at about 10:14 local and at the door by 12:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Vientiane, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 14:31 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. 17 of them join HAN to VTE.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to VTE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok DMK | 2.14 | 1.57 | 1,481 | 3h 59m |
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 6.14 | 1,314 | 4h 11m |
| Bangkok BKK | 11.29 | 4.57 | 1,512 | 4h 17m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 76.86 | 1.14 | 2,071 | 4h 39m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 8.29 | 2.29 | 2,075 | 4h 54m |
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 1 | 2,317 | 5h 13m |
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.
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangkok DMK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through DMK the routing covers 1,481 km against the 495 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 59m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 45m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Kunming KMG at 4h 11m and Bangkok BKK at 4h 17m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Hanoi to Vientiane 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 VTE 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 VTE airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into Laos
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and VTE: 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.