TFU Chengdu

How deep the TFU board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from TFU. This reads the same 173 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.

• 83of the 173 destinations are flown by one airline
• 57destinations run less than once a day
• 48destinations have four or more departures a day
• 54.3%of the destinations name Sichuan Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at TFU

48 airlines appear on the TFU board and they do not hold it evenly. Sichuan Airlines is on 94 of the 173 destinations, 54.3 per cent of them, and on 23 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 439.3 of the 533.1 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 Air China on 80 destinations. 14 of the 48 airlines at TFU 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 94 of the 173 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a TFU sector is usually another Sichuan Airlines 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 TFU than the destination count does.

How much of the TFU board is daily

Of the 173 destinations, 116 are flown at least once a day and 57 are not, 5 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the TFU 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: TFU to Xingyi (ACX) 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 76.2 of the 533.1 departures a day, 14.3 per cent of the whole board. The other 168 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at TFU usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Busan-si PUS	South Korea	Air Busan	1	2,348	the pair page
Dongying DOY	China	Air China	1	1,544	plan this
Duong Dong PQC	Vietnam	9G Rail	1	2,234	plan this
Paris CDG	France	Air China	1	8,303	plan this
Xingyi ACX	China	Colorful Guizhou Airlines	1	583	plan this
Cairo CAI	Egypt	Sichuan Airlines	2	6,882	plan this
Changde CGD	China	Sichuan Airlines	2	713	plan this
Chiangmai CNX	Thailand	Chengdu Airlines	2	1,398	plan this
Vancouver YVR	Canada	Sichuan Airlines	2	9,996	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Air China	3	8,083	plan this

The ten destinations out of TFU 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. 44 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from TFU

The desk holds the return direction for 55 of the 173 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eight of them the return into TFU runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Kunming (KMG) at 13.7 out a day against 6.4 back, Shenzhen (SZX) at 8.1 out a day against 4.9 back and Fuzhou (FOC) at 5.7 out a day against 3.5 back.

It runs the other way as well: Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) files 1 a day back into TFU against 0.57 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at TFU

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

The night at TFU

7 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 Tokyo (NRT) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from TFU that lands inside it leaves around 17:25, on a modelled block of 4h 35m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from TFU that lands inside it leaves around 19:01, on a modelled block of 9h 59m. Into Sydney (SYD) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from TFU that lands inside it leaves around 10:04, on a modelled block of 10h 56m. Those three departure times out of TFU 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 TFU turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 32 airport pair pages that start or end at TFU, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Chengdu to Guangzhou (CAN), Chengdu to Wuhan (WUH) and Chengdu to Nanjing (NKG).

One courier posting names TFU as the airport a courier here flies from: Chengdu.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with TFU already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 173 destinations above.