SYX Sanya

How deep the SYX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SYX. This reads the same 76 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.

• 43of the 76 destinations are flown by one airline
• 39destinations run less than once a day
• 17destinations have four or more departures a day
• 28.9%of the destinations name Hainan Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SYX

39 airlines appear on the SYX board and they do not hold it evenly. Hainan Airlines is on 22 of the 76 destinations, 28.9 per cent of them, and on 1 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 114.3 of the 172.1 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 China Southern Airlines on 21 destinations. 19 of the 39 airlines at SYX 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 SYX: one airline on 28.9 per cent of the destinations and the other 71.1 per cent spread across 38 airlines. A cancellation inside the Hainan Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 54 destinations Hainan 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 SYX board is daily

Of the 76 destinations, 37 are flown at least once a day and 39 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SYX board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: SYX to Shantou (SWA) 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 47.4 of the 172.1 departures a day, 27.6 per cent of the whole board. With 51.3 per cent of the 76 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Almaty ALA	Kazakhstan	SCAT Airlines	1	4,114	the pair page
Changchun CGQ	China	China Southern Airlines	1	3,236	plan this
Huaihua HJJ	China	Air Changan	1	1,017	plan this
Shantou SWA	China	China Southern Airlines	1	939	plan this
Astana NQZ	Kazakhstan	SCAT Airlines	2	4,931	plan this
Huangshan City TXN	China	Fuzhou Airlines	2	1,555	plan this
Kazan KZN	Russia	Aeroflot	2	6,477	plan this
Minsk MSQ	Belarus	Belavia	2	7,814	plan this
Prague PRG	Czechia	SCAT Airlines	2	8,814	plan this
Saint-Petersburg LED	Russia	Aeroflot	2	7,652	plan this

The ten destinations out of SYX 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. 27 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SYX

The desk holds the return direction for 33 of the 76 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into SYX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Tashkent (TAS) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, Prague (PRG) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Ekaterinburg (SVX) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (PVG) files 8.4 a day back into SYX against 4.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SYX

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

Where SYX turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 14 airport pair pages that start or end at SYX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Sanya to Chengdu (TFU), Sanya to Hangzhou (HGH) and Sanya to Changsha (CSX).

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SYX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 76 destinations above.