The sector is held by Air New Zealand and China Eastern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
AKL Auckland to PVG Shanghai
Auckland Airport, New Zealand, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 9,368 km
- Block, estimated
- 11h 47m
- Door to door
- 18h 32m
What AKL to PVG looks like
The AKL to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Auckland AKL to Shanghai PVG is an ultra long sector of 9,368 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 9,368 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 11h 47m.
Auckland AKL is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 56 scheduled destinations and 189.2 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Shanghai carries about 4.2 times the departures of Auckland, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Shanghai runs 5 hours behind of Auckland in January and 4 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on AKL to PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKL to PVG | 2.14 | 15 | Air New Zealand, China Eastern Airlines |
| PVG to AKL | 2.29 | 16 | Air New Zealand, China Eastern Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air New Zealand and China Eastern Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 31 departures a week on AKL to PVG, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 11h 47m block time on AKL to PVG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to AKL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At AKL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| AKL to PVG in the air, estimated | 707 min | 16h 17m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 17h 47m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 18h 32m |
| Door to door | 1,112 min | 18h 32m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for AKL to PVG is 18h 32m.
A courier who leaves Auckland at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 15:47 local and at the door by 18:02 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Auckland is around 08:58 local.
At 18h 32m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 21 of them join AKL to PVG.
| Connecting at | AKL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brisbane BNE | 7.86 | 1.14 | 9,601 | 13h 44m |
| Sydney SYD | 11.71 | 2.86 | 10,025 | 14h 14m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 2.14 | 23.14 | 10,426 | 14h 54m |
| Seoul ICN | 0.57 | 22.43 | 10,478 | 14h 56m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 1.43 | 10.29 | 10,503 | 14h 59m |
| Melbourne MEL | 8.57 | 2.14 | 10,654 | 15h 01m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at AKL in the afternoon actually flies on.
21 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brisbane BNE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through BNE the routing covers 9,601 km against the 9,368 km nonstop track and takes about 13h 44m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 57m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Sydney SYD at 14h 14m and Hong Kong HKG at 14h 54m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Auckland to Shanghai yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for AKL to PVG in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The AKL airport entry
- The PVG airport entry
- Hand carry into New Zealand
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Auckland
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through AKL and PVG: Singapore to Auckland, Sydney to Auckland, Melbourne to Auckland, Brisbane to Auckland, Auckland to San Francisco, Seoul to Auckland, Auckland to Hong Kong, Auckland to Guangzhou.