The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines, Philippines AirAsia and VietJetAir.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MNL Manila to DAD Da Nang
Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines, to Da Nang International, Vietnam. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,386 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 16m
- Door to door
- 9h 01m
What MNL to DAD looks like
The MNL to DAD sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manila MNL to Da Nang DAD is a medium haul sector of 1,386 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,386 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 16m.
Manila MNL is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 80 scheduled destinations and 426.8 departures a day. Da Nang DAD has 29 destinations and 161.7 departures a day.
Manila carries about 2.6 times the departures of Da Nang, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Da Nang is one hour behind of Manila 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 MNL to DAD from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MNL to DAD | 4.14 | 29 | Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines, Philippines AirAsia, VietJetAir |
| DAD to MNL | 3.57 | 25 | Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines, Philippines AirAsia |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 54 departures a week on MNL to DAD, 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 2h 16m block time on MNL to DAD. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to MNL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MNL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MNL to DAD in the air, estimated | 136 min | 6h 46m |
| Formalities at DAD | 90 min | 8h 16m |
| Delivery run in Da Nang | 45 min | 9h 01m |
| Door to door | 541 min | 9h 01m |
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 MNL to DAD is 9h 01m.
A courier who leaves Manila at 09:00 local is on the ground in Da Nang at about 10:16 local and at the door by 12:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Da Nang, the last useful departure from Manila is around 14:29 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. 15 of them join MNL to DAD.
| Connecting at | MNL to hub, flights a day | Hub to DAD, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macau MFM | 2.29 | 2.29 | 2,040 | 4h 37m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 17 | 5.57 | 2,065 | 4h 53m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 4.71 | 42.29 | 2,216 | 4h 56m |
| Kaohsiung KHH | 1.86 | 0.86 | 2,366 | 5h 01m |
| Hanoi HAN | 4.14 | 49.86 | 2,401 | 5h 11m |
| Taipei TPE | 13.14 | 4.14 | 2,861 | 5h 54m |
With 4.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
15 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Macau MFM, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through MFM the routing covers 2,040 km against the 1,386 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 37m 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 21m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Hong Kong HKG at 4h 53m and Ho Chi Minh City SGN at 4h 56m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
Plan Manila to Da Nang 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 MNL to DAD 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 MNL airport entry
- The DAD airport entry
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through MNL and DAD: Seoul to Da Nang, Hanoi to Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang, Singapore to Da Nang, Taipei to Da Nang, Da Nang to Kuala Lumpur, Da Nang to Osaka, Busan to Da Nang.