The sector is held by Air Canada and Philippine Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
YVR Vancouver to MNL Manila
Vancouver International, Canada, to Ninoy Aquino International, the Philippines. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 10,554 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 13m
- Door to door
- 19h 58m
What YVR to MNL looks like
The YVR to MNL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Vancouver YVR to Manila MNL is an ultra long sector of 10,554 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 10,554 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 13m.
Vancouver YVR is a large airport in the network held here, 125 scheduled destinations and 409.9 departures a day. Manila MNL has 80 destinations and 426.8 departures a day.
Manila is 15 hours ahead of Vancouver all year.
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 YVR to MNL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| YVR to MNL | 1.29 | 9 | Air Canada, Philippine Airlines |
| MNL to YVR | 1.14 | 8 | Air Canada, Philippine Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Canada and Philippine Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 17 departures a week on YVR 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 13m block time on YVR 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 YVR | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At YVR before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| YVR to MNL in the air, estimated | 793 min | 17h 43m |
| Formalities at MNL | 90 min | 19h 13m |
| Delivery run in Manila | 45 min | 19h 58m |
| Door to door | 1,198 min | 19h 58m |
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 YVR to MNL is 19h 58m.
A courier who leaves Vancouver at 09:00 local is on the ground in Manila at about 13:13 local and at the door by 15:28 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Manila, nothing leaving Vancouver 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 19h 58m 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. 24 of them join YVR to MNL.
| Connecting at | YVR to hub, flights a day | Hub to MNL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osaka KIX | 0.71 | 3 | 10,569 | 14h 55m |
| Tokyo NRT | 3.29 | 5.71 | 10,554 | 14h 58m |
| Taipei TPE | 2.29 | 13.14 | 10,767 | 15h 18m |
| Seattle SEA | 14.86 | 0.71 | 10,910 | 15h 27m |
| Seoul ICN | 4 | 11.57 | 10,809 | 15h 28m |
| Shanghai PVG | 1.43 | 3.14 | 10,867 | 15h 44m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at YVR in the afternoon actually flies on.
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Osaka KIX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through KIX the routing covers 10,569 km against the 10,554 km nonstop track and takes about 14h 55m 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 42m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tokyo NRT at 14h 58m and Taipei TPE at 15h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Vancouver, Victoria YYJ is 63 km away by great circle and carries 22 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Vancouver 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 YVR 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 YVR airport entry
- The MNL airport entry
- Hand carry into Canada
- Hand carry into the Philippines
- The written lane, Dubai to Vancouver
- The written lane, Hong Kong to Vancouver
- The written lane, Shanghai to Vancouver
- The route calculator
More pairs through YVR 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.