The sector is held by Air Canada.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ICN Seoul to YUL Montreal
Incheon International, South Korea, to Montreal Trudeau, Canada. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5 times a week
- Great circle
- 10,573 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 14m
- Door to door
- 19h 59m
What ICN to YUL looks like
The ICN to YUL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Seoul ICN to Montreal YUL is an ultra long sector of 10,573 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 10,573 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 14m.
Seoul ICN is a major hub in the network held here, 165 scheduled destinations and 641.2 departures a day. Montreal YUL has 157 destinations and 317.8 departures a day.
Montreal runs 14 hours behind of Seoul in January and 13 hours behind 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 ICN to YUL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICN to YUL | 0.71 | 5 | Air Canada |
| YUL to ICN | 0.57 | 4 | Air Canada |
One carrier holds the sector, Air Canada, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on ICN to YUL, 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 14m block time on ICN to YUL. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ICN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ICN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ICN to YUL in the air, estimated | 794 min | 17h 44m |
| Formalities at YUL | 90 min | 19h 14m |
| Delivery run in Montreal | 45 min | 19h 59m |
| Door to door | 1,199 min | 19h 59m |
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 ICN to YUL is 19h 59m.
A courier who leaves Seoul at 09:00 local is on the ground in Montreal at about 08:14 local and at the door by 10:29 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Montreal, the last useful departure from Seoul is around 16:31 local.
At 19h 59m 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. 34 of them join ICN to YUL.
| Connecting at | ICN to hub, flights a day | Hub to YUL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto YYZ | 2.29 | 25.57 | 11,124 | 15h 47m |
| Boston BOS | 1.14 | 7.29 | 11,373 | 16h 03m |
| Calgary YYC | 1 | 10 | 11,548 | 16h 09m |
| Detroit DTW | 1.71 | 4.43 | 11,506 | 16h 10m |
| Minneapolis MSP | 1.86 | 2.29 | 11,555 | 16h 17m |
| Tokyo NRT | 49.29 | 1.14 | 11,611 | 16h 19m |
34 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Toronto YYZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through YYZ the routing covers 11,124 km against the 10,573 km nonstop track and takes about 15h 47m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 33m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Boston BOS at 16h 03m and Calgary YYC at 16h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Montreal, Ottawa YOW is 151 km away by great circle and carries 45 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Seoul ICN, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through ICN or YUL. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Hyundai and Kia, Ulsan and HwaseongThe largest car plant complex in the world by capacity at Ulsan. Korean lines with European and American tooling. Logistics through Seoul ICN.
- Samsung, Hwaseong and GiheungMemory and logic fabrication. An hour south of Incheon, and the destination for a great deal of European equipment. Logistics through Seoul ICN.
Plan Seoul to Montreal 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 ICN to YUL 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 ICN airport entry
- The YUL airport entry
- Hand carry into South Korea
- Hand carry into Canada
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