The sector is held by Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SEA Seattle to MNL Manila
Seattle Tacoma International, the United States, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 10,705 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 24m
- Door to door
- 20h 09m
What SEA to MNL looks like
The SEA to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Seattle SEA to Manila MNL is an ultra long sector of 10,705 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 10,705 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 24m.
Seattle SEA is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 717.9 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila runs 16 hours ahead of Seattle in January and 15 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and 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 SEA to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEA to MNL | 0.71 | 5 | Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to SEA | 0.71 | 5 | Philippine Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Philippine Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9.9 departures a week on SEA 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 13h 24m block time on SEA 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 SEA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SEA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SEA to MNL in the air, estimated | 804 min | 17h 54m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 19h 24m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 20h 09m |
| Door to door | 1,209 min | 20h 09m |
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 SEA to MNL is 20h 09m.
A courier who leaves Seattle at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 14:24 local and at the door by 16:39 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, nothing leaving Seattle inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 20h 09m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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 SEA to MNL.
| Connecting at | SEA to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo NRT | 2.29 | 5.71 | 10,707 | 15h 09m |
| Vancouver YVR | 19.71 | 1.29 | 10,759 | 15h 16m |
| Tokyo HND | 2.29 | 4.29 | 10,708 | 15h 22m |
| Taipei TPE | 5.71 | 13.14 | 10,932 | 15h 30m |
| Seoul ICN | 4.86 | 11.57 | 10,982 | 15h 40m |
| Shanghai PVG | 1.14 | 3.14 | 11,039 | 15h 56m |
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tokyo NRT, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through NRT the routing covers 10,707 km against the 10,705 km nonstop track and takes about 15h 09m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Vancouver YVR at 15h 16m and Tokyo HND at 15h 22m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Seattle, Victoria YYJ is 157 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through SEA or MNL. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Boeing, Everett and RentonWidebody and 737 final assembly. A European supplier base and an American line, eight time zones apart. Logistics through Seattle SEA.
Plan Seattle 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 SEA 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 SEA airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Seattle
- The written lane, Seattle to Nagoya
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through SEA 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.