PVG Shanghai

How deep the PVG board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from PVG. This reads the same 206 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.

• 97of the 206 destinations are flown by one airline
• 54destinations run less than once a day
• 57destinations have four or more departures a day
• 66.5%of the destinations name China Eastern Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at PVG

83 airlines appear on the PVG board and they do not hold it evenly. China Eastern Airlines is on 137 of the 206 destinations, 66.5 per cent of them, and on 47 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 668 of the 786.7 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 Juneyao Airlines on 63 destinations. 51 of the 83 airlines at PVG 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 137 of the 206 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a PVG sector is usually another China Eastern 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 PVG than the destination count does.

How much of the PVG board is daily

Of the 206 destinations, 152 are flown at least once a day and 54 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the PVG 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: PVG to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (UUS) 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 111.1 of the 786.7 departures a day, 14.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 201 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at PVG usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Huizhou HUZ	China	China United Airlines	1	1,148	plan this
Nantong NTG	China	Shenzhen Airlines	1	130	plan this
Ottawa YOW	Canada	China Eastern Airlines	1	11,331	plan this
Phnom Penh KTI	Cambodia	China Eastern Airlines	1	2,802	plan this
Redhill KRH	the United Kingdom	China Eastern Airlines	1	9,245	plan this
Yichun LDS	China	China Eastern Airlines	1	1,946	plan this
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk UUS	Russia	Aurora	1	2,501	plan this
Hiroshima HIJ	Japan	China Eastern Airlines	2	1,101	plan this
Irkutsk IKT	Russia	S7 Airlines	2	2,742	plan this
Krasnoyarsk KJA	Russia	Rossiya Airlines	2	3,594	plan this

The ten destinations out of PVG 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. 42 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from PVG

The desk holds the return direction for 104 of the 206 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 15 of them the return into PVG runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Taipei City (TSA) at 2.1 out a day against 0.57 back, Changsha (CSX) at 9.4 out a day against 4.1 back and Tianjin (TSN) at 5.9 out a day against 2.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: Beijing (PEK) files 7.4 a day back into PVG against 1.7 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at PVG

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

The night at PVG

PVG does not close. The note the desk holds for it, checked 2026-09-07, reads: Operates around the clock.

13 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 PVG that lands inside it leaves around 19:12, on a modelled block of 2h 48m. Into London (LGW) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from PVG that lands inside it leaves around 18:51, on a modelled block of 11h 39m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from PVG that lands inside it leaves around 17:50, on a modelled block of 11h 10m. Those three departure times out of PVG 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 PVG turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 52 airport pair pages that start or end at PVG, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Shanghai to Hong Kong (HKG), Shanghai to Chongqing (CKG) and Shanghai to Guangzhou (CAN).

17 of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Shanghai, Copenhagen to Shanghai and Dubai to Shanghai. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at PVG written out.

Two courier postings name PVG as the airport a courier here flies from: Suzhou and Pudong.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with PVG already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 206 destinations above.