PEK Beijing

How deep the PEK board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PEK. This reads the same 201 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 138of the 201 destinations are flown by one airline
• 53destinations run less than once a day
• 40destinations have four or more departures a day
• 81.1%of the destinations name Air China, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PEK

48 airlines appear on the PEK board and they do not hold it evenly. Air China is on 163 of the 201 destinations, 81.1 per cent of them, and on 103 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 604.5 of the 651.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Hainan Airlines on 51 destinations. 34 of the 48 airlines at PEK appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 163 of the 201 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PEK sector is usually another Air China aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at PEK than the destination count does.

How much of the PEK board is daily

Of the 201 destinations, 148 are flown at least once a day and 53 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PEK board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: PEK to Malé (MLE) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 131.4 of the 651.4 departures a day, 20.2 per cent of the whole board. The other 196 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at PEK usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bologna BLQ	Italy	Air China	1	8,015	plan this
Bucharest OTP	Romania	Air China	1	7,053	plan this
Malé MLE	Maldives	Maldivian	1	5,871	plan this
Belgrade BEG	Serbia	Hainan Airlines	2	7,424	plan this
Minsk MSQ	Belarus	Air China	2	6,437	plan this
Oslo OSL	Norway	Hainan Airlines	2	6,983	the pair page
San Diego SDM	the United States	Hainan Airlines	2	10,239	plan this
Seattle SEA	the United States	Hainan Airlines	2	8,679	the pair page
Washington IAD	the United States	Air China	2	11,113	plan this
Yancheng YNZ	China	Air China	2	807	plan this

The ten destinations out of PEK where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 40 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from PEK

The desk holds the return direction for 95 of the 201 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into PEK runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Shanghai (PVG) at 7.4 out a day against 1.7 back, Hangzhou (HGH) at 23.3 out a day against 8.1 back and Tehran (IKA) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (SHA) files 38 a day back into PEK against 14.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PEK

PEK keeps Asia/Shanghai time, four hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 13:00 at PEK, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for five hours. A customs question raised in the last four hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at PEK until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at PEK

12 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from PEK that lands inside it leaves around 19:38, on a modelled block of 10h 22m. Into Brussels (BRU) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PEK that lands inside it leaves around 18:56, on a modelled block of 10h 04m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PEK that lands inside it leaves around 19:07, on a modelled block of 9h 53m. Those three departure times out of PEK are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where PEK turns up on the rest of this site

PEK carries two other pages on this site as well: the China country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the PEK transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at PEK, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Beijing to Chengdu (CTU), Beijing to Shenzhen (SZX) and Beijing to Guangzhou (CAN).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Beijing. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at PEK written out.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PEK already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 201 destinations above.