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How deep the XIY board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from XIY. This reads the same 147 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.

• 82of the 147 destinations are flown by one airline
• 57destinations run less than once a day
• 44destinations have four or more departures a day
• 47.6%of the destinations name China Eastern Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at XIY

41 airlines appear on the XIY board and they do not hold it evenly. China Eastern Airlines is on 70 of the 147 destinations, 47.6 per cent of them, and on 21 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 442.3 of the 533.4 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 Tianjin Airlines on 36 destinations. 14 of the 41 airlines at XIY 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 70 of the 147 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an XIY 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. No alternate airport within road reach is held for XIY, so that second look is a longer road leg or a different day.

How much of the XIY board is daily

Of the 147 destinations, 90 are flown at least once a day and 57 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the XIY 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: XIY to Paris (CDG) 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 105.1 of the 533.4 departures a day, 19.7 per cent of the whole board. The other 142 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at XIY usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Budapest BUD	Hungary	Shanghai Airlines	1	7,235	plan this
Daqing Shi DQA	China	China Southern Airlines	1	1,938	plan this
Minsk MSQ	Belarus	Air China	1	6,409	plan this
Paris CDG	France	Hainan Airlines	1	8,226	plan this
Bangkok DMK	Thailand	Thai Lion Air	2	2,426	plan this
Dushanbe DYU	Tajikistan	Loong Air	2	3,570	plan this
Hanoi HAN	Vietnam	China Eastern Airlines	2	1,499	the pair page
Moscow SVO	Russia	China Eastern Airlines	2	5,776	plan this
Novosibirsk OVB	Russia	S7 Airlines	2	3,044	plan this
Phnom Penh KTI	Cambodia	Spring Airlines	2	2,596	plan this

The ten destinations out of XIY 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. 46 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from XIY

The desk holds the return direction for 40 of the 147 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On six of them the return into XIY runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Ürümqi (URC) at 20.3 out a day against 13.6 back, Busan-si (PUS) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Istanbul (IST) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Shanghai (PVG) files 14.3 a day back into XIY against 8.6 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at XIY

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

The night at XIY

3 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 London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from XIY that lands inside it leaves around 20:04, on a modelled block of 10h 26m. Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from XIY that lands inside it leaves around 20:06, on a modelled block of 9h 24m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from XIY that lands inside it leaves around 19:36, on a modelled block of 10h 24m. Those three departure times out of XIY 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 XIY turns up on the rest of this site

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

The site publishes 21 airport pair pages that start or end at XIY, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Xian to Guangzhou (CAN), Xian to Shenzhen (SZX) and Xian to Kunming (KMG).

One courier posting names XIY as the airport a courier here flies from: Xi’an.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with XIY already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 147 destinations above.