The sector is held by ANA, Jet Linx Aviation and Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HND Tokyo to MNL Manila
Tokyo Haneda, Japan, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,996 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 20m
- Door to door
- 11h 05m
What HND to MNL looks like
The HND to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo HND to Manila MNL is a medium haul sector of 2,996 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,996 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 20m.
Tokyo HND is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 738.1 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila is one hour behind of Tokyo all year.
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 HND to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HND to MNL | 4.29 | 30 | ANA, Jet Linx Aviation, Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to HND | 0 | 0 | none held |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The return leg MNL to HND carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At 4.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 30 departures a week on HND 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 4h 20m block time on HND 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 HND | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HND before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HND to MNL in the air, estimated | 260 min | 8h 50m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 10h 20m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 11h 05m |
| Door to door | 665 min | 11h 05m |
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 HND to MNL is 11h 05m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 12:20 local and at the door by 14:35 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 12:25 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. 31 of them join HND to MNL.
| Connecting at | HND to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagoya NGO | 3.57 | 1.57 | 3,041 | 5h 56m |
| Osaka KIX | 2 | 3 | 3,067 | 6h 00m |
| Fukuoka FUK | 64 | 1.57 | 3,205 | 6h 06m |
| Taipei TPE | 2.29 | 13.14 | 3,297 | 6h 28m |
| Shanghai PVG | 4.43 | 3.14 | 3,588 | 7h 05m |
| Seoul ICN | 3.43 | 11.57 | 3,818 | 7h 08m |
With 4.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
31 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nagoya NGO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through NGO the routing covers 3,041 km against the 2,996 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 56m 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 36m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Osaka KIX at 6h 00m and Fukuoka FUK at 6h 06m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tokyo, Tokyo NRT is 60 km away by great circle and carries 117 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.
Tokyo HND, night operations: Operates around the clock; the preferred Tokyo gate for a late departure.
Plan Tokyo 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 HND 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 HND airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Manila
- The route calculator
More pairs through HND and MNL: Tokyo to Singapore, Osaka to Tokyo, Tokyo to Hong Kong, Tokyo to Dubai, Nagoya to Tokyo, Tokyo to Taipei, Tokyo to Sydney, Tokyo to Delhi.