The sector is held by EVA Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TPE Taipei to IAH Houston
Taoyuan International, Taiwan, to George Bush Intercontinental, the United States. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 12,756 km
- Block, estimated
- 15h 52m
- Door to door
- 22h 37m
What TPE to IAH looks like
The TPE to IAH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Taipei TPE to Houston IAH is an ultra long sector of 12,756 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 12,756 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 15h 52m.
Taipei TPE is a large airport in the network held here, 108 scheduled destinations and 382.9 departures a day. Houston IAH has 197 destinations and 641 departures a day.
Houston runs 14 hours behind of Taipei 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 TPE to IAH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPE to IAH | 1.14 | 8 | EVA Air |
| IAH to TPE | 1.14 | 8 | EVA Air |
One carrier holds the sector, EVA Air, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on TPE to IAH, 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 15h 52m block time on TPE to IAH. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TPE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TPE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TPE to IAH in the air, estimated | 952 min | 20h 22m |
| Formalities at IAH | 90 min | 21h 52m |
| Delivery run in Houston | 45 min | 22h 37m |
| Door to door | 1,357 min | 22h 37m |
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 TPE to IAH is 22h 37m.
A courier who leaves Taipei at 09:00 local is on the ground in Houston at about 10:52 local and at the door by 13:07 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Houston, the last useful departure from Taipei is around 13:53 local.
At 22h 37m 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. 23 of them join TPE to IAH.
| Connecting at | TPE to hub, flights a day | Hub to IAH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage ANC | 2.43 | 1.14 | 12,768 | 17h 22m |
| Vancouver YVR | 2.29 | 3.43 | 12,761 | 17h 37m |
| Seattle SEA | 4.71 | 6.86 | 12,770 | 17h 38m |
| Tokyo NRT | 21.71 | 2.86 | 12,850 | 17h 53m |
| Tokyo HND | 1.29 | 1.14 | 12,847 | 17h 53m |
| Dallas DFW | 1.43 | 19.57 | 12,763 | 17h 58m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at TPE in the afternoon actually flies on.
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Anchorage ANC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through ANC the routing covers 12,768 km against the 12,756 km nonstop track and takes about 17h 22m 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 30m 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 17h 37m and Seattle SEA at 17h 38m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Taipei, Fuzhou FOC is 184 km away by great circle and carries 80 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Houston, Houston HOU is 38 km away by great circle and carries 145 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.
Taipei TPE, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through TPE or IAH. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- TSMC, HsinchuThe largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. European lithography, Taiwanese fabs, and a clock that runs in fab hours. Logistics through Taipei TPE.
Plan Taipei to Houston 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 TPE to IAH 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 TPE airport entry
- The IAH airport entry
- Hand carry into Taiwan
- Hand carry into the United States
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Taipei
- The written lane, Dubai to Taipei
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through TPE and IAH: Atlanta to Houston, San Francisco to Houston, Chicago to Houston, Houston to Boston, Seattle to Houston, Frankfurt to Houston, Detroit to Houston, Amsterdam to Houston.