Cheapest€52.06
- Airlines PNG AP372106:521h 10m08:02Lae LAEDaru DAU
Door to door 4h 20mCO2 124.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Lae to Daru flight
Flights from Lae to Daru start at €58.55 and take 4h 20m at their fastest.
The Flights from Lae to Daru starts at €58.55 and takes 4h 20m door to door, run by 1 operator over 507 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.
- 4h 20mDoor to door
- 1h 10mMoving
- €58.55From
- 124.7 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Airlines PNG | €52.06 | 4h 13m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The flight gets you into Daru. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Where to stay in Daru
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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When to book Lae to Daru
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €53.2490 days
- €46.7560 days
- €60.9145 days
- €55.0130 days
- €54.4221 days
- €65.0414 days
- €83.927 days
- €138.203 days
- €135.251 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €46.75.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 196 percent. The most expensive point is €138.20, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €84.51Sun
- €58.55Mon
- €62.09Tue
- €65.04Wed
- €78.02Thu
- €78.61Fri
- €89.23Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Lae
Air
- LAE
Daru
Air
- DAU
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 507 km against 492 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Port Moresby. The gap between arriving and leaving is 65 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Lae at 06:52 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Lae to Daru
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Lae to Daru take?
The Flight from Lae to Daru takes 4h 20m door to door, of which 1h 10m is spent moving. The route runs 507 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Lae to Daru cost?
The Flight from Lae to Daru starts at €58.55 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €67.70. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Lae to Daru?
1 operators run the Flight from Lae to Daru: Airlines PNG. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Lae to Daru use?
The Flight from Lae to Daru leaves from Lae LAE and arrives at Daru DAU. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Flight from Lae to Daru?
Fares for the Flight from Lae to Daru bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €46.75. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 196 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Lae to Daru produce?
The Flight from Lae to Daru produces about 124.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 507 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Lae to Daru on September 9, 2026: 507 km of route against 492 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €58.55, and 4h 20m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.