KIX Osaka

How deep the KIX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from KIX. This reads the same 70 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.

• 43of the 70 destinations are flown by one airline
• 25destinations run less than once a day
• 15destinations have four or more departures a day
• 28.6%of the destinations name Peach Aviation, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at KIX

78 airlines appear on the KIX board and they do not hold it evenly. Peach Aviation is on 20 of the 70 destinations, 28.6 per cent of them, and on 8 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 178.7 of the 267.1 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 T'Way Air on 7 destinations. 44 of the 78 airlines at KIX 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 KIX: one airline on 28.6 per cent of the destinations and the other 71.4 per cent spread across 77 airlines. A cancellation inside the Peach Aviation network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 50 destinations Peach Aviation does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the KIX board is daily

Of the 70 destinations, 45 are flown at least once a day and 25 are not, 2 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the KIX 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: KIX to Tianjin (TSN) 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 116.6 of the 267.1 departures a day, 43.6 per cent of the whole board. The other 65 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at KIX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Chicago ORD	the United States	China Airlines	1	10,449	the pair page
Tianjin TSN	China	Tianjin Airlines	1	1,674	the pair page
Nanjing NKG	China	Juneyao Airlines	2	1,553	the pair page
Shijiazhuang SJW	China	China Postal Airlines	2	1,885	plan this
Ulaan Baatar UBN	Mongolia	Miat - Mongolian Airlines	2	2,777	plan this
Chiangmai CNX	Thailand	Thai Vietjet Air	3	3,976	the pair page
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	Emirates	3	7,614	plan this
Ningbo NGB	China	China Central Longhao	3	1,393	plan this
Ōzora MMB	Japan	Peach Aviation	3	1,301	plan this
Sydney SYD	Australia	Jetstar	3	7,782	the pair page

The ten destinations out of KIX 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. 15 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from KIX

The desk holds the return direction for 49 of the 70 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On five of them the return into KIX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Tokyo (HND) at 15.1 out a day against 2 back, Jebel Ali (DWC) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back and Hagåtña, Guam International Airport (GUM) at 2.3 out a day against 1.1 back.

It runs the other way as well: Chicago (ORD) files 0.86 a day back into KIX against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at KIX

KIX keeps Asia/Tokyo time, five hours ahead of Dubai all year.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 14:00 at KIX, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for four hours. A customs question raised in the last five hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at KIX until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at KIX

5 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 KIX that lands inside it leaves around 21:47, on a modelled block of 1h 13m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from KIX that lands inside it leaves around 17:22, on a modelled block of 11h 38m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from KIX that lands inside it leaves around 18:22, on a modelled block of 11h 38m. Those three departure times out of KIX 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 KIX turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 40 airport pair pages that start or end at KIX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Osaka to Seoul (ICN), Osaka to Hong Kong (HKG) and Osaka to Taipei (TPE).

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

Twelve courier postings name KIX as the airport a courier here flies from: Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with KIX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 70 destinations above.