The sector is held by El Al.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HKT Phuket to AMM Amman
Phuket International, Thailand, to Queen Alia International, Jordan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 6,924 km
- Block, estimated
- 8h 50m
- Door to door
- 15h 35m
What HKT to AMM looks like
The HKT to AMM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Phuket HKT to Amman AMM is a long haul sector of 6,924 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 6,924 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 8h 50m.
Phuket HKT is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 49 scheduled destinations and 131 departures a day. Amman AMM has 72 destinations and 131.4 departures a day.
Amman is 4 hours behind of Phuket all year.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 76 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on HKT to AMM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HKT to AMM | 0.14 | 1 | El Al |
| AMM to HKT | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, El Al, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg AMM to HKT carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once 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 1 departure a week on HKT to AMM, 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 8h 50m block time on HKT to AMM. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HKT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HKT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HKT to AMM in the air, estimated | 530 min | 13h 20m |
| Formalities at AMM | 90 min | 14h 50m |
| Delivery run in Amman | 45 min | 15h 35m |
| Door to door | 935 min | 15h 35m |
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 HKT to AMM is 15h 35m.
A courier who leaves Phuket at 09:00 local is on the ground in Amman at about 13:50 local and at the door by 16:05 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Amman, the last useful departure from Phuket is around 10:55 local.
At 15h 35m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 12 of them join HKT to AMM.
| Connecting at | HKT to hub, flights a day | Hub to AMM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharjah SHJ | 3.43 | 5.29 | 6,947 | 10h 31m |
| Muscat MCT | 1.71 | 1.14 | 6,962 | 10h 33m |
| Riyadh RUH | 0.57 | 9.62 | 7,062 | 10h 36m |
| Mumbai BOM | 2.29 | 0.71 | 6,941 | 10h 37m |
| Abu Dhabi AUH | 4.57 | 5.57 | 6,972 | 10h 47m |
| Doha DOH | 2.29 | 5.57 | 6,978 | 10h 47m |
12 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Sharjah SHJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.4 times a day.
Through SHJ the routing covers 6,947 km against the 6,924 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 31m 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 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Muscat MCT at 10h 33m and Riyadh RUH at 10h 36m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Amman, Tel Aviv TLV is 109 km away by great circle and carries 110 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Phuket to Amman 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 HKT to AMM 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 HKT airport entry
- The AMM airport entry
- Hand carry into Thailand
- Hand carry into Jordan
- The written lane, Amman to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Sharjah to Amman
- The route calculator
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