The sector is held by Cebu Pacific Air and Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KIX Osaka to MNL Manila
Kansai International, Japan, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,635 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 52m
- Door to door
- 10h 37m
What KIX to MNL looks like
The KIX to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Osaka KIX to Manila MNL is a medium haul sector of 2,635 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,635 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 52m.
Osaka KIX is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 70 scheduled destinations and 267.1 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila is one hour behind of Osaka 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 KIX to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIX to MNL | 3 | 21 | Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to KIX | 2.57 | 18 | 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.
At 3 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 39 departures a week on KIX 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 3h 52m block time on KIX 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 KIX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KIX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KIX to MNL in the air, estimated | 232 min | 8h 22m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 9h 52m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 10h 37m |
| Door to door | 637 min | 10h 37m |
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 KIX to MNL is 10h 37m.
A courier who leaves Osaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 11:52 local and at the door by 14:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Osaka is around 12:53 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. 33 of them join KIX to MNL.
| Connecting at | KIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 4.57 | 1.57 | 2,776 | 5h 38m |
| Kaohsiung KHH | 6.71 | 1.86 | 2,859 | 5h 39m |
| Taipei TPE | 21.57 | 13.14 | 2,878 | 5h 55m |
| Busan PUS | 13.71 | 1.14 | 3,013 | 5h 57m |
| Shanghai PVG | 16 | 3.14 | 3,158 | 6h 32m |
| Cebu CEB | 1.29 | 29 | 3,483 | 6h 33m |
With 3 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.
33 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Fukuoka FUK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 2,776 km against the 2,635 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 38m 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 46m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Kaohsiung KHH at 5h 39m and Taipei TPE at 5h 55m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Osaka 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 KIX 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 KIX airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through KIX and MNL: Osaka to Seoul, Osaka to Taipei, Osaka to Hong Kong, Osaka to Shanghai, Singapore to Osaka, Osaka to Tokyo, Bangkok to Osaka, San Francisco to Osaka.