The sector is held by Air China, Hainan Airlines, Loong Air and Beijing Capital Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PEK Beijing to HGH Hangzhou
Capital International, China, to Hangzhou Xiaoshan, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 23.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,149 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 58m
- Door to door
- 8h 43m
What PEK to HGH looks like
The PEK to HGH sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beijing PEK to Hangzhou HGH is a short sector of 1,149 km by great circle, flown nonstop 23.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,149 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 58m.
Beijing PEK is a major hub in the network held here, 201 scheduled destinations and 651.4 departures a day. Hangzhou HGH has 117 destinations and 460.5 departures a day.
Beijing and Hangzhou keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 PEK to HGH from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEK to HGH | 23.29 | 163 | Air China, Hainan Airlines, Loong Air |
| HGH to PEK | 8.12 | 56.8 | Hainan Airlines, Loong Air, Beijing Capital Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: PEK to HGH runs 23.3 times a day, the return runs 8.1 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 23.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 219.9 departures a week on PEK to HGH, 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 1h 58m block time on PEK to HGH. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PEK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PEK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PEK to HGH in the air, estimated | 118 min | 6h 28m |
| Formalities at HGH | 90 min | 7h 58m |
| Delivery run in Hangzhou | 45 min | 8h 43m |
| Door to door | 523 min | 8h 43m |
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 PEK to HGH is 8h 43m.
A courier who leaves Beijing at 09:00 local is on the ground in Hangzhou at about 10:58 local and at the door by 13:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Hangzhou, the last useful departure from Beijing is around 13:47 local.
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. 36 of them join PEK to HGH.
| Connecting at | PEK to hub, flights a day | Hub to HGH, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai PVG | 7.43 | 1.29 | 1,266 | 4h 09m |
| Jeju CJU | 2.29 | 2.57 | 1,822 | 4h 28m |
| Wuhan WUH | 7.86 | 4.57 | 1,656 | 4h 29m |
| Seoul ICN | 10.29 | 3.86 | 1,881 | 4h 39m |
| Busan PUS | 2.14 | 0.71 | 2,182 | 4h 47m |
| Xian XIY | 13.57 | 18.12 | 2,126 | 4h 58m |
With 23.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
36 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Shanghai PVG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through PVG the routing covers 1,266 km against the 1,149 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 09m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 11m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Jeju CJU at 4h 28m and Wuhan WUH at 4h 29m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Beijing, Beijing PKX is 65 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Hangzhou, Shanghai SHA is 138 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beijing to Hangzhou 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 PEK to HGH 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 PEK airport entry
- The HGH airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Beijing
- The route calculator
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