PKX Beijing

How deep the PKX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PKX. This reads the same 159 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.

• 98of the 159 destinations are flown by one airline
• 34destinations run less than once a day
• 37destinations have four or more departures a day
• 37.1%of the destinations name China Southern Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PKX

39 airlines appear on the PKX board and they do not hold it evenly. China Southern Airlines is on 59 of the 159 destinations, 37.1 per cent of them, and on 18 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 387.1 of the 553.7 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 China United Airlines on 52 destinations. 26 of the 39 airlines at PKX 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.

That is a middling concentration at PKX: one airline on 37.1 per cent of the destinations and the other 62.9 per cent spread across 38 airlines. A cancellation inside the China Southern Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 100 destinations China Southern Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the PKX board is daily

Of the 159 destinations, 125 are flown at least once a day and 34 are not, 3 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PKX 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: PKX to Lisbon (LIS) 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 102.7 of the 553.7 departures a day, 18.5 per cent of the whole board. The other 154 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at PKX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bangkok BKK	Thailand	China Eastern Airlines	1	3,255	plan this
Blagoveschensk BQS	Russia	IrAero	1	1,487	plan this
Lisbon LIS	Portugal	Beijing Capital Airlines	1	9,696	plan this
Ad Dammam DMM	Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabian Airlines	2	6,238	plan this
Bandar Seri Begawan BWN	Brunei	Royal Brunei Airlines	2	3,846	plan this
Dushanbe DYU	Tajikistan	China Southern Airlines	2	4,063	plan this
Malé MLE	Maldives	Beijing Capital Airlines	2	5,825	plan this
Mohe OHE	China	China Southern Airlines	2	1,559	plan this
Denpasar-Bali Island DPS	Indonesia	China Eastern Airlines	2.2	5,367	the pair page
Anshun AVA	China	China United Airlines	3	1,769	plan this

The ten destinations out of PKX 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. 24 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from PKX

The desk holds the return direction for 51 of the 159 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into PKX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Casablanca (CMN) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back, Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) at 2 out a day against 1.1 back and Seoul (ICN) at 3.4 out a day against 2.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Chengdu (TFU) files 11.1 a day back into PKX against 8.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PKX

PKX 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 PKX, 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 PKX until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at PKX

3 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 Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PKX that lands inside it leaves around 19:01, on a modelled block of 9h 59m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from PKX that lands inside it leaves around 20:08, on a modelled block of 10h 22m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PKX that lands inside it leaves around 19:04, on a modelled block of 9h 56m. Those three departure times out of PKX 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 PKX turns up on the rest of this site

PKX 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 PKX transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 31 airport pair pages that start or end at PKX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Beijing to Guangzhou (CAN), Beijing to Changsha (CSX) and Beijing to Kunming (KMG).

One courier posting names PKX as the airport a courier here flies from: Tianjin.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PKX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 159 destinations above.