The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HAN Hanoi to XIY Xian
Noi Bai International, Vietnam, to Xi'an Xianyang, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,499 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 25m
- Door to door
- 9h 10m
What HAN to XIY looks like
The HAN to XIY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Hanoi HAN to Xian XIY is a medium haul sector of 1,499 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,499 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 25m.
Hanoi HAN is a large airport in the network held here, 87 scheduled destinations and 368.8 departures a day. Xian XIY has 147 destinations and 533.4 departures a day.
Xian 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 XIY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAN to XIY | 0.29 | 2 | China Eastern Airlines |
| XIY to HAN | 0.29 | 2 | China Eastern Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, China Eastern Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on HAN to XIY, 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 25m block time on HAN to XIY. 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 XIY in the air, estimated | 145 min | 6h 55m |
| Formalities at XIY | 90 min | 8h 25m |
| Delivery run in Xian | 45 min | 9h 10m |
| Door to door | 550 min | 9h 10m |
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 XIY is 9h 10m.
A courier who leaves Hanoi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Xian at about 12:25 local and at the door by 14:40 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Xian, the last useful departure from Hanoi is around 12:20 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. 27 of them join HAN to XIY.
| Connecting at | HAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to XIY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chongqing CKG | 1.14 | 4.29 | 1,511 | 4h 18m |
| Chengdu TFU | 1.43 | 1.14 | 1,632 | 4h 27m |
| Kunming KMG | 1.14 | 16 | 1,703 | 4h 31m |
| Changsha CSX | 0.86 | 12.86 | 1,892 | 4h 40m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 8.29 | 22.86 | 2,114 | 4h 57m |
| Wuhan WUH | 0.57 | 1.14 | 2,007 | 4h 57m |
27 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 1,511 km against the 1,499 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 18m 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 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Chengdu TFU at 4h 27m and Kunming KMG at 4h 31m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Hanoi to Xian 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 XIY 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 XIY airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Hanoi
- The route calculator
More pairs through HAN and XIY: 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.