The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air, China Airlines and Philippines AirAsia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KHH Kaohsiung to MNL Manila
Kaohsiung International, Taiwan, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 900 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 39m
- Door to door
- 8h 24m
What KHH to MNL looks like
The KHH to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Kaohsiung KHH to Manila MNL is a short sector of 900 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 900 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 39m.
Kaohsiung KHH is a smaller airport in the network held here, 37 scheduled destinations and 99.9 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila carries about 4.3 times the departures of Kaohsiung, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Kaohsiung and Manila 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 KHH to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHH to MNL | 1.86 | 13 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Airlines, Philippines AirAsia |
| MNL to KHH | 1.86 | 13 | Cebu Pacific Air, China Airlines, Philippines AirAsia |
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 26 departures a week on KHH 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 1h 39m block time on KHH 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 KHH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KHH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KHH to MNL in the air, estimated | 99 min | 6h 09m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 7h 39m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 8h 24m |
| Door to door | 504 min | 8h 24m |
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 KHH to MNL is 8h 24m.
A courier who leaves Kaohsiung at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 10:39 local and at the door by 12:54 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Kaohsiung is around 14:06 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. 20 of them join KHH to MNL.
| Connecting at | KHH to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 0.57 | 2.57 | 1,471 | 3h 57m |
| Macau MFM | 2.86 | 2.29 | 1,852 | 4h 30m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 11.43 | 15.71 | 1,808 | 4h 41m |
| Da Nang DAD | 0.86 | 3.57 | 2,852 | 5h 38m |
| Shanghai PVG | 2.29 | 3.14 | 2,814 | 6h 06m |
| Hanoi HAN | 2.71 | 4.29 | 3,280 | 6h 11m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at KHH in the afternoon actually flies on.
20 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Xiamen XMN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through XMN the routing covers 1,471 km against the 900 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 57m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 18m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Macau MFM at 4h 30m and Hong Kong HKG at 4h 41m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Kaohsiung 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 KHH 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 KHH airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Taiwan
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through KHH and MNL: Hong Kong to Kaohsiung, Tokyo to Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung to Osaka, Kaohsiung to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi to Kaohsiung, Nagoya to Kaohsiung, Busan to Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung to Shenzhen.