Flights Manila (MNL) → Hanoi (HAN)
14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on MNL–HAN, flown by Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines and VietJet Air, with a scheduled block of 3.2 hours. The cheapest one-way in our cache on 2026-08-02 was ₱12,375. ₱12,375 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.
Manila to Hanoi connects the Philippine capital directly with the capital of Vietnam, with around 14 flights a week, two a day. The route carries leisure travellers heading for Hanoi and northern Vietnam, alongside regional business travellers. Block time is about three hours and a quarter.
Airlines on this route
3 carriers — Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines and VietJet Air — are catalogued nonstop on MNL–HAN, filing about 14 one-way departures a week. The 1 with a recorded allowance carry 23 kg economy checked. ₱12,375 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.
What each operator brings to this pair:
- Philippine Airlines (PR) — alliance none (ex-oneworld observer); hubs MNL/CEB; 23 kg economy checked; +10 kg OFW uplift.
Checked baggage and the OFW uplift on MNL–HAN
10 kg is the largest OFW uplift on this route, carried by Philippine Airlines on top of a 23 kg economy base — 33 kg in total for a qualifying passenger.
Checked allowance on this pair (confirm with the airline before booking):
- Philippine Airlines — 23 kg economy base, +10 kg under Overseas Filipino Bayani Program (extra baggage 10kg + handling) = 33 kg for a qualifying worker.
The uplift is the part people get wrong, so here is where it does not reach. It is granted to a person under a programme, not written into a fare class, and the desk issues it against paperwork — an OEC or OFW Pass and, usually, the employment contract. Book a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier and there is no base allowance for the uplift to sit on top of. Book the domestic feeder as a separate ticket and the uplift does not follow the bag onto it. Fly a segment operated by a partner airline under a codeshare and the operating carrier’s own rules apply, not the one whose code is on your ticket. And the allowance is per passenger, not per booking — you cannot pool it across a family unless the airline’s own pooling rule says so. Verify the number at booking; excess bought at the airport is priced per kilo and is the most expensive kilo you will ever buy.
Three carriers fly Manila to Hanoi: Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines and VietJet Air. Vietnam Airlines and Philippine Airlines are full-service with a checked allowance included; VietJet flies it low-cost, with a lean base fare to which baggage is added. The mix gives a clear choice between full and budget tickets.
PHP fares
₱12,375 was the cheapest MNL–HAN one-way in this site’s fare cache on 2026-08-02, on Scoot. It is a cache floor for one date and fare class, not a held quote. Across 8 departure months cached on 2026-08-02 the floor ranged ₱5,799 to ₱7,322.
That ₱12,375 is a cache reading, not a quote, and the difference is worth stating plainly. It is the lowest one-way price the fare feed returned for MNL–HAN at the moment it was polled, for one specific departure date, in one specific fare class. It is a single one-way observation rather than an average, and it is not held: the inventory behind it is thin and often gone within the day. Three things it also excludes: checked baggage where the carrier sells a bags-free base fare, seat selection, and any change or refund flexibility. Treat it as the floor of the range you should expect to see, then compare the all-in total once the bag you actually need is added back.
Fares are quoted in PHP and move with demand. Prices rise around the December holidays, the Vietnamese and Philippine New Year periods and the regional school breaks; for those dates, booking six to eight weeks ahead is sensible. For ordinary travel, two to four weeks usually secures a reasonable economy fare.
About Hanoi
1 arrival airport serves this route: Noi Bai International Airport (HAN), at Hanoi, Vietnam. Local currency is VND. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file. ₱12,375 is the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for this route on 2026-08-02.
On arrival you are landing at Noi Bai International Airport, ICAO VVNB, serving Hanoi, Vietnam. Tourism + business. Across the whole Philippine market, Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines and VietJet Air are the carriers on record as serving Hanoi from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Manila does not have. A planning point that costs people money: an airport code is not a city. Big metro areas usually have several airports, and the cheapest fare tends to land at the most distant one — where the transfer into town can cost more than the fare saved. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam — an old city built around lakes and tree-lined boulevards, with a dense Old Quarter, French-colonial architecture and a celebrated street-food culture. It is also the usual gateway to Halong Bay and the mountains of the north. For travellers from Manila it is an affordable, characterful leisure destination.
What 7 weeks of fare snapshots show on MNL–HAN
7 weekly snapshots between 2026-W19 and 2026-W31 put the cheapest MNL–HAN one-way between ₱11,152 and ₱14,766. The last reading in that series, 2026-W31, was ₱12,375. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.
We take one reading a week and keep it. Over 7 of them the low was ₱11,152 in 2026-W29 and the high ₱14,766 — a 1.3× swing on an unchanged route, which is the single most useful thing this series says. Week to week the last move was up ₱1,223 (11%) from 2026-W29 to 2026-W31. Method, so you can discount it properly: each point is the cheapest one-way the feed could see in that ISO week, not a booked price and not an average of the market, and a week where the poll caught a promotional seat reads lower than the week either side of it. The band is the signal; individual weeks are noise. A fare inside the lower third of that band is a good one on this pair; a fare above the top of it is worth re-checking a week later before you commit.
Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on MNL–HAN
2 rulebooks cover MNL–HAN from the Philippine side: the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which governs the departure from a Philippine airport, and the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability for delay and baggage. Vietnam may operate its own scheme for departures from its airports; this page does not track it.
None of the statutory compensation schemes this site sources — EU261, UK261, the Saudi GACA regulation, Canada’s APPR and the US DOT consumer rules — reaches MNL–HAN. Read that as a statement about our source list, not as a finding that Vietnam has no rules of its own: states routinely regulate departures from their own airports, and the civil aviation authority of Vietnam is the body to check before you conclude that nothing applies. What definitely does apply in both directions is the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps a carrier’s liability for delay and for baggage that is damaged, delayed or lost. Montreal reimburses proven loss up to a cap; it pays no fixed sum for the inconvenience itself, so keep receipts rather than counting hours.
On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.
Cheapest and dearest months observed on MNL–HAN
8 departure months were cached for MNL–HAN on 2026-08-02. The cheapest was November 2026 at ₱5,799 and the dearest June 2027 at ₱7,322 — a 1.3× spread on the same city pair. 14 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 3 carriers on file.
Across the 8 departure months in our 2026-08-02 cache for this pair (November 2026 through June 2027), the cheapest reading was ₱5,799 in November 2026 and the most expensive ₱7,322 in June 2027. Two caveats keep that honest. First, each month contributes one number — the cheapest one-way the feed found in that month — so this is a floor-by-floor comparison, not an average fare by month, and a month with thin coverage can read artificially low. Second, the months are not a forecast: they describe inventory that was loaded when we polled. What the shape is genuinely useful for is ranking your own flexible dates. If your trip can move by three or four weeks, the difference between the cheapest and dearest month here is larger than almost any discount code will ever be.
FAQ
8 questions below draw only on the route, carrier and fare data this project keeps for MNL–HAN. Where a number is a cache floor it is described as one, and where a rule does not hold universally the gaps are spelled out.
Entry rules for a Philippine passport in Vietnam
Entry rule for Vietnam on a Philippine passport, per vietnam.travel (checked 2026-10-23) — visa-exempt (check the permitted length of stay before you go). Confirm it again before booking.
Whether Vietnam needs a visa from a Philippine passport holder matters more than it looks. Where a visa is required, the lead time on the application — not the fare — is what fixes your booking window, and buying a non-refundable ticket before the visa is issued is the most common expensive mistake on corridors like this one. Where entry is visa-free or visa-on-arrival, the permission is still conditional: officers routinely ask for an onward ticket, an address, and evidence you can fund the stay, and a visa-free stamp can be refused. Transit adds another layer again — the rule that matters in a connecting airport belongs to the transit country, not to your destination. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.
What is the cheapest Manila to Hanoi fare on record here? ₱12,375 one-way — the lowest price the fare feed returned for MNL–HAN when this route was last polled on 2026-08-02, on Scoot. That is the minimum of one record for one route, not of the whole cache: a floor for a single date and fare class, not a held quote, and it excludes checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately.
How much do MNL–HAN fares move week to week? Across 7 weekly snapshots from 2026-W19 to 2026-W31 the cheapest one-way ranged ₱11,152 to ₱14,766. Each point is the lowest fare visible that week, not an average of the market.
Does the OFW baggage uplift apply to every fare on MNL–HAN? No. The largest uplift on this route is 10 kg with Philippine Airlines, granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass. It does not apply to a bags-free base fare, to a separately ticketed domestic feeder, or to a codeshare segment operated by a partner under its own rules, and it is per passenger rather than per booking.
Can I claim delay compensation on MNL–HAN? Not under any scheme this site sources. The fallback is the carrier’s conditions of carriage plus Montreal Convention 1999 liability limits, and Vietnam’s own civil aviation authority is worth checking for departures from its airports. Separately, a departure from a Philippine airport is covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights, which mandates rebooking, refunds and amenities but sets no fixed cash scale.
Which airlines fly from Manila to Hanoi? Vietnam Airlines, Philippine Airlines and VietJet Air fly Manila to Hanoi, with around 14 departures a week.
How long is the flight from Manila to Hanoi? Nonstop block time is about 3.2 hours.
When are Manila to Hanoi fares cheapest? Fares on MNL-HAN are quoted in PHP and move with demand. They climb around the December holidays and Holy Week. Booking four to eight weeks ahead usually secures a reasonable economy fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Hanoi? Yes — Manila to Hanoi is flown nonstop. Booking early still helps, as seats on the cheapest fare classes sell first.
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