SZX Shenzhen

How deep the SZX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from SZX. This reads the same 157 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.

• 92of the 157 destinations are flown by one airline
• 61destinations run less than once a day
• 41destinations have four or more departures a day
• 43.9%of the destinations name Shenzhen Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at SZX

66 airlines appear on the SZX board and they do not hold it evenly. Shenzhen Airlines is on 69 of the 157 destinations, 43.9 per cent of them, and on 19 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 444.8 of the 574.7 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 China Southern Airlines on 60 destinations. 35 of the 66 airlines at SZX 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 SZX: one airline on 43.9 per cent of the destinations and the other 56.1 per cent spread across 65 airlines. A cancellation inside the Shenzhen Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 88 destinations Shenzhen 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 SZX board is daily

Of the 157 destinations, 96 are flown at least once a day and 61 are not, 10 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the SZX 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: SZX to Yining (YIN) 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 132.6 of the 574.7 departures a day, 23.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 152 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at SZX usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Auckland AKL	New Zealand	Hainan Airlines	1	9,204	the pair page
Bishkek BSZ	Kyrgyzstan	Turkish Airlines	1	4,263	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	Hainan Airlines	1	9,330	the pair page
Frankfurt-am-Main FRA	Germany	Air China	1	9,120	the pair page
Los Angeles LAX	the United States	Air China	1	11,645	the pair page
Ordos DSN	China	China Southern Airlines	1	1,911	plan this
Shymkent CIT	Kazakhstan	Turkish Airlines	1	4,632	plan this
Sihanukville KOS	Cambodia	Cambodia Angkor Air	1	1,723	plan this
Vancouver YVR	Canada	Hainan Airlines	1	10,244	the pair page
Yining YIN	China	China Southern Airlines	1	3,796	plan this

The ten destinations out of SZX 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. 49 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from SZX

The desk holds the return direction for 56 of the 157 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On three of them the return into SZX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Anchorage (ANC) at 1.1 out a day against 0.14 back, Phuket (HKT) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) at 3.6 out a day against 2.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (SHA) files 46.1 a day back into SZX against 28.3 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at SZX

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

The night at SZX

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 SZX that lands inside it leaves around 17:44, on a modelled block of 4h 16m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from SZX that lands inside it leaves around 18:27, on a modelled block of 12h 03m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from SZX that lands inside it leaves around 17:59, on a modelled block of 12h 01m. Those three departure times out of SZX 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 SZX turns up on the rest of this site

SZX 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 SZX 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 SZX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Shenzhen to Hangzhou (HGH), Shenzhen to Shanghai (SHA) and Shenzhen to Chengdu (CTU).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Dubai to Shenzhen and Munich to Shenzhen. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at SZX written out.

Four courier postings name SZX as the airport a courier here flies from: Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with SZX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 157 destinations above.