The sector is held by Air India, VietJetAir and Vietnam Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SGN Ho Chi Minh City to DEL Delhi
Tan Son Nhat International, Vietnam, to Indira Gandhi International, India. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 3,651 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 54m
- Door to door
- 11h 39m
What SGN to DEL looks like
The SGN to DEL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Ho Chi Minh City SGN to Delhi DEL is a long haul sector of 3,651 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,651 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 54m.
Ho Chi Minh City SGN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 77 scheduled destinations and 380.1 departures a day. Delhi DEL has 133 destinations and 607.8 departures a day.
Delhi is 1.5 hours behind of Ho Chi Minh City 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 SGN to DEL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SGN to DEL | 2.29 | 16 | Air India, VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines |
| DEL to SGN | 1.87 | 13.1 | Air India, VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 29.1 departures a week on SGN to DEL, 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 4h 54m block time on SGN to DEL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SGN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SGN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SGN to DEL in the air, estimated | 294 min | 9h 24m |
| Formalities at DEL | 90 min | 10h 54m |
| Delivery run in Delhi | 45 min | 11h 39m |
| Door to door | 699 min | 11h 39m |
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 SGN to DEL is 11h 39m.
A courier who leaves Ho Chi Minh City at 09:00 local is on the ground in Delhi at about 12:24 local and at the door by 14:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Delhi, the last useful departure from Ho Chi Minh City is around 12:21 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. 31 of them join SGN to DEL.
| Connecting at | SGN to hub, flights a day | Hub to DEL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok DMK | 3.29 | 0.71 | 3,662 | 6h 49m |
| Bangkok BKK | 12.57 | 10.14 | 3,665 | 7h 04m |
| Phuket HKT | 1.86 | 3.43 | 4,141 | 7h 04m |
| Hanoi HAN | 68.43 | 3.29 | 4,160 | 7h 06m |
| Ahmedabad AMD | 0.57 | 18.28 | 4,611 | 7h 46m |
| Bangalore BLR | 0.71 | 50.32 | 4,868 | 7h 59m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at SGN in the afternoon actually flies on.
31 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 5 times a week.
Through DMK the routing covers 3,662 km against the 3,651 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 49m 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 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bangkok BKK at 7h 04m and Phuket HKT at 7h 04m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh PNH is 213 km away by great circle and carries 25 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Ho Chi Minh City to Delhi 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 SGN to DEL 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 SGN airport entry
- The DEL airport entry
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- Hand carry into India
- The written lane, Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The route calculator
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