The sector is held by Shenzhen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SZX Shenzhen to MNL Manila
Shenzhen Bao'an, China, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,180 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 00m
- Door to door
- 8h 45m
What SZX to MNL looks like
The SZX to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Shenzhen SZX to Manila MNL is a short sector of 1,180 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,180 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 00m.
Shenzhen SZX is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 574.7 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Shenzhen and Manila 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 SZX to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZX to MNL | 1.57 | 11 | Shenzhen Airlines |
| MNL to SZX | 1.29 | 9 | Shenzhen Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Shenzhen Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 20 departures a week on SZX 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 2h 00m block time on SZX 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 SZX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SZX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SZX to MNL in the air, estimated | 120 min | 6h 30m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 8h 00m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 8h 45m |
| Door to door | 525 min | 8h 45m |
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 SZX to MNL is 8h 45m.
A courier who leaves Shenzhen at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 11:00 local and at the door by 13:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Shenzhen is around 13:45 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. 25 of them join SZX to MNL.
| Connecting at | SZX to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei TPE | 5.57 | 13.14 | 1,977 | 4h 46m |
| Hanoi HAN | 6.57 | 4.29 | 2,613 | 5h 20m |
| Kota Kinabalu BKI | 1.14 | 0.57 | 2,969 | 5h 47m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 3.57 | 4.57 | 3,130 | 5h 59m |
| Shanghai PVG | 17.86 | 3.14 | 3,084 | 6h 26m |
| Bangkok DMK | 0.86 | 1.29 | 3,898 | 6h 59m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at SZX in the afternoon actually flies on.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Taipei TPE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.6 times a day.
Through TPE the routing covers 1,977 km against the 1,180 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 46m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 46m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Hanoi HAN at 5h 20m and Kota Kinabalu BKI at 5h 47m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shenzhen, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Shenzhen 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 SZX 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 SZX airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Munich to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through SZX 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.