The sector is held by Philippine Airlines and Delta Air Lines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LAX Los Angeles to MNL Manila
Los Angeles International, the United States, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 11,740 km
- Block, estimated
- 14h 38m
- Door to door
- 21h 23m
What LAX to MNL looks like
The LAX to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Los Angeles LAX to Manila MNL is an ultra long sector of 11,740 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 11,740 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 14h 38m.
Los Angeles LAX is a major hub in the network held here, 212 scheduled destinations and 826.3 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila runs 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles in January and 15 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and 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 LAX to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAX to MNL | 2.57 | 18 | Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to LAX | 2.71 | 19 | Delta Air Lines, Philippine Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Philippine Airlines and Delta Air Lines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 37 departures a week on LAX 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 14h 38m block time on LAX 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 LAX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LAX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LAX to MNL in the air, estimated | 878 min | 19h 08m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 20h 38m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 21h 23m |
| Door to door | 1,283 min | 21h 23m |
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 LAX to MNL is 21h 23m.
A courier who leaves Los Angeles at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 15:38 local and at the door by 17:53 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, nothing leaving Los Angeles inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 21h 23m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 26 of them join LAX to MNL.
| Connecting at | LAX to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osaka KIX | 1.43 | 3 | 11,856 | 16h 28m |
| Tokyo NRT | 5.86 | 5.71 | 11,805 | 16h 29m |
| San Francisco SFO | 44 | 2.71 | 11,772 | 16h 35m |
| Tokyo HND | 7.14 | 4.29 | 11,808 | 16h 42m |
| Taipei TPE | 7.57 | 13.14 | 12,097 | 16h 54m |
| Xiamen XMN | 0.71 | 2.57 | 12,344 | 16h 58m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at LAX in the afternoon actually flies on.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Osaka KIX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KIX the routing covers 11,856 km against the 11,740 km nonstop track and takes about 16h 28m 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 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tokyo NRT at 16h 29m and San Francisco SFO at 16h 35m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Los Angeles, San Diego SAN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 123 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Los Angeles 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 LAX 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 LAX airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Los Angeles
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Sydney
- The written lane, Los Angeles to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through LAX and MNL: Los Angeles to San Francisco, Seattle to Los Angeles, London to Los Angeles, Atlanta to Los Angeles, Boston to Los Angeles, Paris to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Seoul, Chicago to Los Angeles.