The sector is held by Cambodia Angkor Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PNH Phnom Penh to SGN Ho Chi Minh City
Phnom Penh International, Cambodia, to Tan Son Nhat International, Vietnam. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 213 km
- Block, estimated
- 49 min
- Door to door
- 7h 34m
What PNH to SGN looks like
The PNH to SGN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phnom Penh PNH to Ho Chi Minh City SGN is a short sector of 213 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 213 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 49 min.
Phnom Penh PNH is a smaller airport in the network held here, 25 scheduled destinations and 33.7 departures a day. Ho Chi Minh City SGN has 77 destinations and 380.1 departures a day.
Ho Chi Minh City carries about 11.3 times the departures of Phnom Penh, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City 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 PNH to SGN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PNH to SGN | 0.29 | 2 | Cambodia Angkor Air |
| SGN to PNH | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Cambodia Angkor Air, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg SGN to PNH carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 2 departures a week on PNH to SGN, 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 49 min block time on PNH to SGN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PNH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PNH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PNH to SGN in the air, estimated | 49 min | 5h 19m |
| Formalities at SGN | 90 min | 6h 49m |
| Delivery run in Ho Chi Minh City | 45 min | 7h 34m |
| Door to door | 454 min | 7h 34m |
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 PNH to SGN is 7h 34m.
A courier who leaves Phnom Penh at 09:00 local is on the ground in Ho Chi Minh City at about 09:49 local and at the door by 12:04 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Ho Chi Minh City, the last useful departure from Phnom Penh is around 14:56 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 PNH to SGN.
| Connecting at | PNH to hub, flights a day | Hub to SGN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok DMK | 2.14 | 3.43 | 1,270 | 3h 52m |
| Bangkok BKK | 5.29 | 13.86 | 1,220 | 4h 03m |
| Hanoi HAN | 1.71 | 76.86 | 2,241 | 4h 52m |
| Kuala Lumpur KUL | 4.57 | 11.43 | 2,088 | 4h 55m |
| Singapore SIN | 1 | 13 | 2,231 | 5h 06m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 1.86 | 6.57 | 3,029 | 6h 07m |
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bangkok DMK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through DMK the routing covers 1,270 km against the 213 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 52m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 03m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Bangkok BKK at 4h 03m and Hanoi HAN at 4h 52m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 213 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 3h 20m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
Plan Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City 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 PNH to SGN 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 PNH airport entry
- The SGN airport entry
- Hand carry into Cambodia
- Hand carry into Vietnam
- The written lane, Dubai to Ho Chi Minh City
- The route calculator
More pairs through PNH and SGN: Phnom Penh to Abu Dhabi, Phnom Penh to Hanoi, Phnom Penh to Jakarta, Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City, Taipei to Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City.