XMN Xiamen

How deep the XMN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from XMN. This reads the same 98 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.

• 50of the 98 destinations are flown by one airline
• 35destinations run less than once a day
• 20destinations have four or more departures a day
• 72.4%of the destinations name Xiamen Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at XMN

38 airlines appear on the XMN board and they do not hold it evenly. Xiamen Airlines is on 71 of the 98 destinations, 72.4 per cent of them, and on 31 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 216.7 of the 263 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 Shandong Airlines on 26 destinations. 20 of the 38 airlines at XMN 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 71 of the 98 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an XMN sector is usually another Xiamen 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 XMN than the destination count does.

How much of the XMN board is daily

Of the 98 destinations, 63 are flown at least once a day and 35 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the XMN 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: XMN to Jingzhou (SHS) 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 58.9 of the 263 departures a day, 22.4 per cent of the whole board. The other 93 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at XMN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Dili DIL	Timor-Leste	Aero Dili Transport Services, S.A. dba aero dili	1	3,766	plan this
Hengyang HNY	China	Xiamen Airlines	1	610	plan this
Huangshan City TXN	China	Beijing Capital Airlines	1	577	plan this
Jingzhou SHS	China	Xiamen Airlines	1	850	plan this
Dongying DOY	China	Shandong Airlines	2	1,443	plan this
London LHR	the United Kingdom	Xiamen Airlines	2	9,665	plan this
Vancouver YVR	Canada	Xiamen Airlines	2	9,822	plan this
Xining XNN	China	Xiamen Airlines	2	2,031	plan this
Ankang AKA	China	Tianjin Airlines	3	1,283	plan this
Hanzhong HZG	China	China Express Airlines	3	1,438	plan this

The ten destinations out of XMN 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. 22 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from XMN

The desk holds the return direction for 44 of the 98 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On none of those 44 does the return run more than a quarter thinner than the outbound, so a turnaround through XMN is a question of hours rather than of whether an aircraft exists.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (SHA) files 21.9 a day back into XMN against 12.9 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at XMN

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

The night at XMN

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 XMN that lands inside it leaves around 18:21, on a modelled block of 3h 39m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from XMN that lands inside it leaves around 17:17, on a modelled block of 11h 43m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from XMN that lands inside it leaves around 17:53, on a modelled block of 12h 07m. Those three departure times out of XMN 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 XMN turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 22 airport pair pages that start or end at XMN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Xiamen to Beijing (PKX), Xiamen to Shanghai (SHA) and Xiamen to Kunming (KMG).

One courier posting names XMN as the airport a courier here flies from: Xiamen.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with XMN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 98 destinations above.