KCH Kuching

How deep the KCH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KCH. This reads the same 17 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 and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 15of the 17 destinations are flown by one airline
• 5destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 52.9%of the destinations name AirAsia, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KCH

Seven airlines appear on the KCH board and they do not hold it evenly. AirAsia is on 9 of the 17 destinations, 52.9 per cent of them, and on 7 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 55 of the 63.4 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 MASwings on 6 destinations. 4 of the 7 airlines at KCH 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 9 of the 17 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a KCH sector is usually another AirAsia aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. No alternate airport within road reach is held for KCH, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the KCH board is daily

Of the 17 destinations, 12 are flown at least once a day and 5 are not, 1 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the KCH board is flown about twice 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: KCH to Guangzhou (CAN) 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 44.7 of the 63.4 departures a day, 70.5 per cent of the whole board. More than half of everything that leaves KCH is aimed at those five places, so the depth on the board above is thinner than the destination count suggests, and a hand carry that is not going to one of them is planned around a single departure time.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Guangzhou CAN	China	Malindo Air	1	2,457	plan this
Subang SZB	Malaysia	Malindo Air	2	994	plan this
Bandar Seri Begawan BWN	Brunei	Royal Brunei Airlines	5	638	plan this
Jakarta CGK	Indonesia	Indonesia AirAsia	5	940	plan this
Tanjung Manis TGC	Malaysia	MASwings	6	122	plan this

The five destinations out of KCH 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.

The way back from KCH

The desk holds the return direction for 7 of the 17 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 7 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through KCH is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Guangzhou (CAN) files 0.29 a day back into KCH against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at KCH

KCH keeps Asia/Kuching time, four hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 13:00 at KCH, 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 KCH until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

Where KCH turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Malaysia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

One courier posting names KCH as the airport a courier here flies from: Kuching.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KCH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 17 destinations above.