The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air and Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGK Jakarta to MNL Manila
Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,788 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 04m
- Door to door
- 10h 49m
What CGK to MNL looks like
The CGK to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jakarta CGK to Manila MNL is a medium haul sector of 2,788 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,788 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 04m.
Jakarta CGK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 467.9 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila is one hour ahead of Jakarta 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 CGK to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGK to MNL | 1.57 | 11 | Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to CGK | 1.29 | 9 | Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Cebu Pacific Air and Philippine Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 20 departures a week on CGK to MNL, 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 04m block time on CGK to MNL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CGK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGK to MNL in the air, estimated | 244 min | 8h 34m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 10h 04m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 10h 49m |
| Door to door | 649 min | 10h 49m |
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 CGK to MNL is 10h 49m.
A courier who leaves Jakarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 14:04 local and at the door by 16:19 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Jakarta is around 10:41 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 CGK to MNL.
| Connecting at | CGK to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandar Seri Begawan BWN | 1.29 | 1 | 2,791 | 5h 34m |
| Singapore SIN | 33.14 | 14.14 | 3,257 | 6h 25m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 2.14 | 4.57 | 3,495 | 6h 27m |
| Bali DPS | 36.71 | 2.86 | 3,648 | 6h 39m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 26.14 | 9.14 | 3,619 | 6h 53m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 5 | 15.71 | 4,405 | 7h 39m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CGK 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 Bandar Seri Begawan BWN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BWN the routing covers 2,791 km against the 2,788 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 34m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Singapore SIN at 6h 25m and Ho Chi Minh City SGN at 6h 27m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Jakarta to Manila 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 CGK to MNL 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 CGK airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Jakarta
- The written lane, Singapore to Jakarta
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGK and MNL: Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, Jakarta to Bali, Jakarta to Jeddah, Seoul to Jakarta, Jakarta to Abu Dhabi, Taipei to Jakarta, Jakarta to Doha, Bangkok to Jakarta.