UAEPEK

CA · hub Beijing (PEK) · Star Alliance

Hand carry on Air China

Beijing with domestic reach across northern China.

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RouteUAE → PEK

Typical flying time7h 25m

Distance≈5,850 km

Typical outcomeSame-Day, Late

One person beats a parcel networkon Air China

The freight chain is not slow because aircraft are slow, it is slow because a consignment waits at every handover. A courier removes the queues, not the kilometres.

OnBoard CourierOne person. One seat. One signature.

CollectedIn the cabin Delivered in on Air China, same day or next morning

Conventional air freightA parcel in a system, every handover is a queue.

Drop-offAcceptance cut-off Build-upFlight Break-downCustoms Delivered, day 3 to 5

0h24h48h72h96h+

When a seat beats a parcel, the full comparison →

Firm quote in 15 minutes

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Five short questions. A dispatcher replies with a named departure, the delivery hour and one fixed price, day and night.

One named courier from collection to signature
Customs cleared in person on arrival
Licensed UAE company, proper VAT invoices

Operational route facts

Last reviewed: August 2026, carrier line-ups and frequencies are indicative and change with seasonal schedules; your quote is priced on the day’s actual flights.

How the flying actually works

Non-stop links into Beijing (PEK) from the Gulf departure bank, the quote names the exact flight and day-of-week validity:

DXBEmirates (daily)

AUHEtihad (daily)

DOHQatar Airways (daily)

Alternative gateways nearby

PKXDaxing International, Beijing · ≈65 km straight-line · connection gateway

TSNTianjin Binhai, Tianjin · ≈125 km straight-line · connection gateway

When the primary airport’s timing loses, a late bank, a curfew, a fog morning, the quote compares these alternates with the true road leg included, and names the winner.

220countries and territories on the desk

500+airports a courier can be booked into

15 minfrom your message to a firm price

24/7the operations centre is awake

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Air China

A hand-carry is only as fast as the next departure. The desk watches three boards at once and books the one that lands first, then holds the one that leaves next.

Emirates

The night bank out of Terminal 3

Between one and four in the morning Emirates pushes back a wave of widebodies from Terminal 3 that reach Europe before the first meeting and Asia by the afternoon. For on Air China that wave is the reason a courier confirmed at eight in the evening is still delivering the next day.

Widebody only, non-stop to 140 plus cities

flydubai

The short sectors, several times a day

From Terminal 2 flydubai runs the one to five hour sectors: the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Africa, the Balkans, the subcontinent. Where a widebody leaves once a day, flydubai often leaves three times, which turns a missed slot into a ninety minute delay rather than a lost day.

Frequency is the fallback

Etihad

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

Ninety minutes down the E11, Etihad leaves from Zayed International with its own bank of departures and, for the United States, immigration cleared before boarding. When the Dubai departure for on Air China is gone, the desk looks at Abu Dhabi before it looks at tomorrow.

US preclearance at AUH

The desk holds no allegiance to a carrier. The booking goes to whichever board puts a courier at on Air China first, at a fare the quote can carry.

on Air China: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Five questions, one fixed price, a named flight. The desk answers within 15 minutes, day and night, and you decide.

Price it now How it works

Air China in the network the desk measures

Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the CA code that yields 526 city pairs across 203 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.

203airports on this carrier

54countries and territories reached

526scheduled city pairs held

2,820average daily flights across them

The schedule the desk holds carries the CA code on 526 city pairs, reaching 203 airports in 54 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Air China and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 79.8 per cent of those airports sit on Asian time zones, and the next largest block is on European time zones.

The longest sector held for the carrier is New York (JFK) to Shanghai (PVG) at about 11,874 km, and the shortest is Bologna (BLQ) to Venice (VCE) at about 136 km. 62 of the 526 pairs run past 5,000 km, so the carrier carries a courier across a continent on some sectors and shuttles on the rest. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Beijing (PEK), on 169 of them, which is 32.1 per cent of everything held under this code.

The thickest sector under the code is Guangzhou (CAN) to Shanghai (SHA) at about 45 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 0.5 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Beijing (PEK), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 226 of the 526 pairs run four or more times a day and 99 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Beijing (PEK) the code leans on Chengdu (TFU) on 80, Beijing (PKX) on 46, Chengdu (CTU) on 43 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.

The sectors that carry the CA code most often

From	To	Country	Flights a day	km	Open it
Guangzhou CAN	Shanghai SHA	China	45	1,176	the pair page
Beijing PEK	Shanghai SHA	China	38	1,076	the pair page
Guangzhou CAN	Hangzhou HGH	China	37.9	1,038	the pair page
Chengdu CTU	Beijing PEK	China	33.6	1,556	the pair page
Hangzhou HGH	Shenzhen SZX	China	33.4	1,071	the pair page
Beijing PEK	Shenzhen SZX	China	28.4	1,957	the pair page
Chengdu CTU	Shenzhen SZX	China	28.1	1,318	the pair page
Guangzhou CAN	Beijing PKX	China	26.6	1,816	the pair page
Dalian DLC	Shanghai PVG	China	25.6	870	plan this
Guangzhou CAN	Beijing PEK	China	24.6	1,881	the pair page
Guangzhou CAN	Chengdu CTU	China	23.4	1,223	the pair page
Hangzhou HGH	Beijing PEK	China	23.3	1,149	the pair page
Shanghai PVG	Shenyang SHE	China	22.3	1,177	plan this
Chongqing CKG	Beijing PEK	China	21.6	1,464	the pair page
Beijing PKX	Shenzhen SZX	China	21.6	1,892	the pair page
Chongqing CKG	Shenzhen SZX	China	21.1	1,063	the pair page

The 16 sectors the CA code appears on most often, out of 526. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.

How a courier reaches Beijing from the Gulf

The schedule the desk holds shows no CA service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Beijing (PEK), and Air China carries the second.

UAE gateway	Operated by	Flights a day	km	Open it
Dubai DXB	Emirates	2.3	5,845	plan this

The first leg, measured. These are the 1 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Beijing (PEK), the airport this code is booked through most often.

Night restrictions on the airports the CA code uses

A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 18 of the 203 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.

Shanghai (PVG), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Seoul (ICN), night operations. Operates around the clock.
Hong Kong (HKG), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to Europe and the Gulf are routine.
Madrid (MAD), night operations. Operates around the clock. Night departures to the Americas are routine.
Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
Taipei (TPE), night operations. Operates around the clock.

Published lanes that carry the CA code

The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Air China appears in the schedule on 6 of them, and the one it flies most is Shanghai to Singapore at about 16.4 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.

Shanghai to Singapore, about 16.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 3,806 km.
Madrid to Bogota, about 9.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,031 km.
Madrid to Sao Paulo, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,379 km.
Shanghai to Los Angeles, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 10,415 km.
Shanghai to Frankfurt, about 5.1 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,860 km.
Munich to Shanghai, about 1.7 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 8,778 km.

The countries the CA code opens

Of the 54 countries and territories reached, 37 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is China with 123 airports on this code. The country desk for China sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.

China (123 airports), United States (5 airports), South Korea (4 airports), Italy (4 airports), Thailand (3 airports), Russia (3 airports), Japan (3 airports), United Kingdom (3 airports), Vietnam (2 airports), Cambodia (2 airports).

Where to go next on the CA network

Each of the 203 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 526 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Beijing (PEK), the route calculator with Dubai to PEK already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.

Where Air China fits in an OBC routing

Air China is based in China and operates from Beijing (PEK) as a member of Star Alliance. For us a carrier is not a brand preference, it is a departure time. We book Air China when it has the next seat that gets your consignment there, and we combine it freely with any other airline on the same routing because we hold no alliance membership and no exclusive contract.

Cabin baggage reality

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We still confirm the limit for the specific flight and aircraft type before quoting.

Connections

Where a single Air China sector does not reach the destination, the courier connects, and stays with the consignment on every leg, so it is never handed over in transit.

How we book

An ordinary passenger seat on the open market, in the courier's own name, matching the passport exactly. Premium cabins when the consignment or the schedule justifies it.

Customs is separate

The airline moves the aircraft; the courier declares the goods. Entry rules are per country, not per carrier, see our country guides.

Why frequency matters

A carrier with three rotations a day turns a missed departure into a short wait. That is worth more on a deadline than a marginally faster aircraft.

Independence

No alliance, no exclusivity, no volume commitment. The schedule decides, not a supplier agreement.

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

Airline timetables change constantly, so rather than reprint a schedule that will be wrong next month, here is what is useful: the markets where Air China regularly appears in our routings, and the pages that describe those lanes in detail. If you need a specific city on Air China, ask and we will check the live schedule.

Country page: China →Shanghai Beijing Guangzhou Shenzhen Chengdu Hangzhou Xiamen Qingdao Xiamen (XMN)Ningbo (NGB)Zhengzhou (CGO)Chongqing (CKG)

Markets in Asia-Pacific:

China Hong Kong SAR Japan South Korea Taiwan Singapore Malaysia Thailand Vietnam Indonesia All countries →

On board courier vs air cargo

Whether the seat is on Air China or any other carrier, this is what a courier changes compared with the hold of the same aircraft.

✓ On board courier

A person in a seat

Leaves on the next available flight, often within hours of your call, 24/7.
One named courier holds the consignment from collection to signature.
Travels in the aircraft cabin wherever the airline, cargo classification and security rules permit it; the transport configuration is confirmed before booking.
No warehouse, no consolidation window, no overnight sort.
Customs cleared in person, questions answered at the counter, immediately.
Same-day delivery is realistic on most sectors out of the UAE.
Built for high-value, fragile, temperature-critical goods and originals.
Proof of delivery with signature, ID check and a photograph within minutes.
A human being you can call at any point of the journey.

✕ Air cargo & express freight

A parcel in a system

Waits for the next consolidation and space allocation, not for you.
Passes through many hands: hub, build-up, ramp, break-down, delivery agent.
Rides in the hold, frequently sitting in a warehouse overnight.
Each handover is a queue, and each queue is where hours disappear.
Cleared in a batch by a broker; one query can idle the shipment for a day.
Next day at best on most lanes, two to three days if it is held.
Chain of custody is a scan history, not a person with the box.
Signed for by whoever happens to be at the door.
Right answer for heavy, bulky or non-urgent freight, and we will say so.

To be straight about it: air cargo is not a bad service, it is a different one. It moves weight cheaply and it does that extremely well. A hand-carry buys back hours, and it is worth paying for exactly when an hour of delay costs more than a seat on a plane, which is the case far more often than most shippers assume, and far less often than most courier companies claim.

The full comparison, with costs →

Questions about flying Air China

What clients and couriers ask when they see this carrier on an assignment.

01Are you an agent or partner of Air China?

No. OnBoard Courier is an independent courier management company. We buy ordinary passenger seats on the open market and hold no agency, contract or partnership with any airline. Airline names and marks belong to their owners and are used here only to describe the routes these assignments travel on.

02Will my consignment definitely fly Air China?

Only if that is genuinely the fastest option for your deadline. We book whichever carrier departs next with a seat and a cabin allowance that fits.

03How much can a courier carry on Air China?

As a full-service carrier the cabin baggage allowance is usually workable for a hand-carry, and a premium cabin adds both allowance and rebooking priority. We confirm the exact allowance for the specific flight before quoting.

04Can I fly as a courier on Air China?

If you are in our network, yes, couriers fly whichever airline the assignment requires. We book and pay the ticket and pay a fee per completed assignment.

Need a routing that uses Air China?

Send the two ends and the deadline. We will check the live schedule across every carrier and come back with the fastest realistic option.

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Why a courier on Air China rather than a cargo booking

Every logistics option is a trade between cost, speed and control. Sea freight gives up speed. Air cargo gives up control. A charter gives up cost. An on board courier is the only option that keeps speed and control and pays for them with the price of a passenger ticket, which is why it exists at all.

The economics are less strange than they look. A courier assignment costs roughly what a business-class ticket costs, plus a fee and the ground work at each end. Set against a stopped production line, a grounded aircraft, an expiring clinical sample or a tender that closes at noon, that number stops being the interesting part of the conversation very quickly.

On the Beijing lane this matters more than average, because the schedule and the customs position both reward preparation and punish improvisation. The half hour spent on the description of the goods before departure is the half day you do not spend at the border afterwards.

How an assignment routed over Beijing runs

A Beijing assignment is not complicated, but every step has a failure mode, and the difference between an operator and a broker is whether those failure modes were planned for before the courier left the house.

Minute 0 to 15

You tell us what it is

Everything starts with an honest description of the goods. We ask what it is, what it costs, who is receiving it in Beijing and when it must be in their hands. Vague answers produce vague quotes and, far worse, customs problems at the other end.

Minute 15 to 45

We screen it and price it

We check three things at once: whether we may lawfully carry it, whether China will let it in without a permit we do not have, and whether it physically fits an aircraft cabin. Only then do you get a fixed price, and the price includes the ticket, the courier fee, transfers and a hotel where an overnight is unavoidable.

Hour 1 to 3

A named courier is assigned and booked

Assignment is not a raffle. The consignment's value, its regulatory profile and the destination decide who is offered it. For Beijing, visa eligibility usually narrows the list faster than availability does, which is exactly why a global courier network is worth having.

Hour 2 to 4

Collection, sealing and documentation

Collection is a documented handover, not a pickup. Identity checked, contents verified against the invoice, seal applied and numbered, photographs taken, and the file opened. From that point one named person holds the consignment until someone in Beijing signs for it.

In flight

The consignment stays in the cabin

The flight is the boring part, and that is the point. No hold, no handling agent, no transfer between systems, one person, one box, one continuous chain of custody all the way to Beijing (PEK).

On arrival

Customs, then a signature

Clearance at Beijing (PEK) happens with a person standing at the counter who can answer questions about the goods on the spot, which is the whole reason a query takes minutes here and a day in the cargo channel. Then the delivery, in person, against signature and ID.

The paperwork that decides how fast Beijing goes

Nothing delays a hand-carry as reliably as a document that says something different from the box. This is what we prepare with you before the courier leaves, and why each piece matters at Beijing (PEK).

Temperature and dangerous goods

Dry ice quantities, lithium battery watt-hours, biological substance classification and packing group all have hard limits for a passenger cabin. Some consignments to China can travel exactly as they are; some need repacking; some cannot fly with a passenger at all, and we say so rather than finding out at security.

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Repairs, exhibition goods, replacements and samples still need a document with a realistic value on it. The value is what the goods are worth, not what you would like the duty to be, an understated value is a customs offence in China rather than a negotiating position.

Commercial invoice

The document customs actually reads. It needs a plain description of the goods, the real value, the currency, the terms of sale and the full names and addresses of both parties. “Samples, no commercial value” is not a customs value and it is the fastest way to turn a twenty-minute clearance at Beijing (PEK) into an afternoon.

Tariff classification

The HS code decides the duty, the permits and sometimes whether the goods may enter China at all. We would rather agree the classification with you before departure than watch an officer choose one for us, because the officer's choice is the one that stands.

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Where goods enter China temporarily and leave again, demonstration equipment, exhibition pieces, professional gear, a carnet avoids duty entirely and gives the courier a document the officer recognises immediately. It has to be issued before departure; there is no retrospective version.

Certificates and permits

Certificates of origin, health and phytosanitary certificates, dangerous goods declarations, export licences for dual-use items, import permits for regulated categories. We identify which of these China wants for your specific commodity at the quoting stage, because discovering it at Beijing (PEK) is far too late.

What a Beijing courier actually costs, and why

We do not publish a price list, because a fixed table would be a lie: the same box on the same route costs differently at four hours' notice than at two days'. What we can do is be exact about which levers move the number, so nothing in the quote is a surprise.

Declared value and insurance

All-risk cover is priced on the declared value of the goods, and it is the number that matters, airline liability under the Montreal Convention is a fraction of what most courier consignments are worth. Understating the value to save a little on cover is a false economy the first time anything goes wrong.

Visas and positioning

If the routing to China needs a visthe courier does not hold, either we assign a courier who does or we position one, and a global network exists precisely so that the answer is usually the first option rather than the second.

How much notice you give us

A seat bought four hours before departure costs what a seat bought four hours before departure costs. Nothing about that is a courier margin, it is simply the airline's pricing curve, and it is the single largest variable in a Beijing quote.

The ground legs at both ends

Collection in the Emirates and delivery beyond Beijing (PEK) are part of the job, not an extra. Where the delivery address is a long drive from the airport, or a second domestic sector is needed, we price it in from the start instead of stopping at arrivals.

What is always included

Ticket, courier fee, airport transfers, the hotel where an overnight is unavoidable, the documentation work and our operations desk being awake for the whole journey. What is not included is duty and tax in China, and anything you ask for after departure that changes the routing.

Distance and sector count

A direct flight to Beijing is one ticket and one risk. A two-sector routing is cheaper on paper and more expensive in practice, because every connection is a chance to lose the consignment's schedule. We quote the routing we would actually fly, not the cheapest one that technically arrives.

Every quote we send is fixed before departure and contains the flight, the courier's fee, transfers and, where an overnight cannot be avoided, the hotel. The things that can change it afterwards are the things you control: a change of destination, a change of goods, or a delay at your end that costs the booked flight. Duty and tax in China sit with the consignee unless we have agreed otherwise in writing.

Dubai skyline at dusk — He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

What can go wrong on a Beijing assignment, and what we do about it

Every operator has these problems. The difference is whether the answer was decided in advance or invented at the counter. This is our answer to each of them, written down before you need it.

The consignee is unreachable

We confirm the receiving party and a working phone number before the courier departs, and we agree a fallback in Beijing, a second authorised person, or a secure hold, so that a delivery does not fail because someone went into a meeting.

The connection is missed

This is why we build routings above the minimum connection time rather than at it. Where a connection is genuinely tight, the courier holds the consignment airside and takes the next available service rather than clearing into a country they were only passing through.

The consignment is larger than described

Measured at collection, not at the gate. If it will not fit a locker we buy a seat for it there and then and tell you the revised number before the courier moves, rather than improvising at check-in.

The goods turn out to be regulated

Found before departure, this is a repack or a permit. Found at security, it is a lost flight and sometimes a confiscation. It is the reason we ask uncomfortable questions about contents at the very beginning instead of taking a booking politely.

Customs asks a question

A person can answer it. That single fact is most of the difference between a hand-carry and a cargo booking: a query at Beijing (PEK) that would idle a shipment for a day gets resolved at the counter in minutes because the person who knows what is in the box is standing there.

Something needs to continue past Beijing

A second sector, a border crossing or a domestic flight beyond Beijing (PEK) is planned as part of the assignment, not handed to a third party on arrival. The chain of custody either holds to the signature or it is not a chain of custody.

How jobs like this actually run

Illustrative cases, patterns from daily OBC work, details generalised for client confidentiality.

PharmaAUH → LHR

Validation samples at 2 to 8 °C for a London reference lab, data-logger sealed.

Cool-chain packed16:30

In the cabin21:05

Lab signature08:20 +1

✓ Chain of custody and temperature log unbroken.

MediaLHR → DXB

A graded master drive for a premiere, no copies allowed to travel unaccompanied.

Post-house12:15

In the cabin16:20

Screening room01:30 +1

✓ Premiere ran from the original.

YachtingNCE → DXB

A regatta winch motor between two race days.

Chandlery13:20

Evening non-stop18:05

Marina berth03:10 +1

✓ Boat on the start line.

Times are typical for these lanes; every job gets its own named flight and timeline before you confirm.

How it moves

Collected by hand, not by network

A named courier picks up at your door, the clock starts the moment you confirm.

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An indicative calculation on the OBC-One pattern: airline seat, courier duty, hotel where the routing needs one, transfers and handling. Pick any of the airports we serve, adjust the settings, the breakdown updates as you go. Nothing here is a binding price; the airline fare on the day decides the final number.

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What is travelling? Weight: 5 kg More than 23 kg, second courier Service

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Where to go from here

Hand carry on Air China is one chapter of a larger network. OnBoard Courier moves time-critical consignments with vetted on-board couriers departing 24/7 from all seven UAE airports to 584 destinations across 219 countries. Choose the service that fits, classic hand-carry, AOG for grounded aircraft, medical and pharma, next flight out or high-value goods, then check entry requirements and customs by country and how an assignment actually runs, minute by minute.

Prefer to compare first? Read when a seat beats a parcel network, browse the industries we move for or scan the airlines the couriers the desk places fly with. If you travel often yourself, flying as an OnBoard Courier pays per completed assignment. For anything urgent, the fastest route is the quote form above, answered by a person, day or night.

One person beats a parcel networkon Air China

Tell us what has to fly. We answer with a flight and a price.

Operational route facts

How the flying actually works

Alternative gateways nearby

Three departure boards, one desk: Emirates, flydubai and Etihad for on Air China

The night bank out of Terminal 3

The short sectors, several times a day

Abu Dhabi as the second runway

on Air China: every hour it waits is an hour it is not moving.

Air China in the network the desk measures

The sectors that carry the CA code most often

How a courier reaches Beijing from the Gulf

Night restrictions on the airports the CA code uses

Published lanes that carry the CA code

The countries the CA code opens

Where to go next on the CA network

Where Air China fits in an OBC routing

Cabin baggage reality

Connections

How we book

Customs is separate

Why frequency matters

Independence

Destinations and markets this carrier serves for us

On board courier vs air cargo

✓ On board courier

✕ Air cargo & express freight

Questions about flying Air China

01Are you an agent or partner of Air China?

02Will my consignment definitely fly Air China?

03How much can a courier carry on Air China?

04Can I fly as a courier on Air China?

Need a routing that uses Air China?

Why a courier on Air China rather than a cargo booking

How an assignment routed over Beijing runs

You tell us what it is

We screen it and price it

A named courier is assigned and booked

Collection, sealing and documentation

The consignment stays in the cabin

Customs, then a signature

The paperwork that decides how fast Beijing goes

Temperature and dangerous goods

Proforma invoice for non-sales

Commercial invoice

Tariff classification

ATA Carnet and temporary admission

Certificates and permits

What a Beijing courier actually costs, and why

Declared value and insurance

Visas and positioning

How much notice you give us

The ground legs at both ends

What is always included

Distance and sector count

What can go wrong on a Beijing assignment, and what we do about it

The consignee is unreachable

The connection is missed

The consignment is larger than described

The goods turn out to be regulated

Customs asks a question

Something needs to continue past Beijing

More questions about carrying a consignment on Air China

01Does the consignment ever go into the hold?

02Is the consignment insured?

03Do you handle customs at Beijing (PEK)?

04What do you need from me to start?

05How quickly can a courier leave for Beijing?

06What happens if the flight is cancelled?

07How is delivery proven?

08Can you collect outside the UAE?

How jobs like this actually run

Collected by hand, not by network

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