The sector is held by Air Macau, Cebu Pacific Air and Philippines AirAsia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MFM Macau to MNL Manila
Macau International, Macau, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,156 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 59m
- Door to door
- 8h 44m
What MFM to MNL looks like
The MFM to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Macau MFM to Manila MNL is a short sector of 1,156 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,156 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 59m.
Macau MFM is a smaller airport in the network held here, 39 scheduled destinations and 60.4 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila carries about 7.1 times the departures of Macau, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Macau 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 between Asia Pacific and the rest of the world, a corridor the written lanes do not cover, which is the reason a computed page for it exists at all.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on MFM to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MFM to MNL | 2.29 | 16 | Air Macau, Cebu Pacific Air, Philippines AirAsia |
| MNL to MFM | 2.29 | 16 | Air Macau, Cebu Pacific Air, 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 32.1 departures a week on MFM 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 59m block time on MFM 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 MFM | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MFM before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MFM to MNL in the air, estimated | 119 min | 6h 29m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 7h 59m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 8h 44m |
| Door to door | 524 min | 8h 44m |
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 MFM to MNL is 8h 44m.
A courier who leaves Macau at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 10:59 local and at the door by 13:14 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Macau is around 13:46 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. 19 of them join MFM to MNL.
| Connecting at | MFM to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaohsiung KHH | 3.43 | 1.86 | 1,596 | 4h 10m |
| Xiamen XMN | 1.29 | 2.57 | 1,690 | 4h 16m |
| Taipei TPE | 8.14 | 13.14 | 2,019 | 4h 50m |
| Da Nang DAD | 2.29 | 3.57 | 2,270 | 4h 54m |
| Hanoi HAN | 1.14 | 4.29 | 2,584 | 5h 18m |
| Shanghai PVG | 4.14 | 3.14 | 3,141 | 6h 31m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at MFM in the afternoon actually flies on.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kaohsiung KHH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KHH the routing covers 1,596 km against the 1,156 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 10m 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 11m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 4h 16m and Taipei TPE at 4h 50m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Macau, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Macau 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 MFM 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 MFM airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Macau
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through MFM and MNL: Manila to Singapore, Seoul to Manila, Taipei to Manila, Manila to Hong Kong, Manila to San Francisco, Manila to Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur to Manila, Doha to Manila.