The sector is held by Air China, Hainan Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines and SF Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PEK Beijing to SZX Shenzhen
Capital International, China, to Shenzhen Bao'an, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 28.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,957 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 00m
- Door to door
- 9h 45m
What PEK to SZX looks like
The PEK to SZX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Beijing PEK to Shenzhen SZX is a medium haul sector of 1,957 km by great circle, flown nonstop 28.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,957 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 00m.
Beijing PEK is a major hub in the network held here, 201 scheduled destinations and 651.4 departures a day. Shenzhen SZX has 157 destinations and 574.7 departures a day.
Beijing and Shenzhen 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 SZX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEK to SZX | 28.43 | 199 | Air China, Hainan Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines |
| SZX to PEK | 19.43 | 136 | Hainan Airlines, SF Airlines, Shenzhen 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 SZX runs 28.4 times a day, the return runs 19.4 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 28.4 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 335 departures a week on PEK to SZX, 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 3h 00m block time on PEK to SZX. 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 SZX in the air, estimated | 180 min | 7h 30m |
| Formalities at SZX | 90 min | 9h 00m |
| Delivery run in Shenzhen | 45 min | 9h 45m |
| Door to door | 585 min | 9h 45m |
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 SZX is 9h 45m.
A courier who leaves Beijing at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shenzhen at about 12:00 local and at the door by 14:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shenzhen, the last useful departure from Beijing is around 12:45 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. 44 of them join PEK to SZX.
| Connecting at | PEK to hub, flights a day | Hub to SZX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanjing NKG | 5.86 | 19.14 | 2,077 | 4h 39m |
| Wuhan WUH | 7.86 | 7.29 | 1,963 | 4h 46m |
| Shanghai SHA | 14.71 | 46.14 | 2,284 | 4h 55m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 23.29 | 29 | 2,220 | 5h 05m |
| Xian XIY | 13.57 | 21.86 | 2,336 | 5h 14m |
| Chongqing CKG | 21.57 | 20.29 | 2,527 | 5h 28m |
With 28.4 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.
44 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nanjing NKG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.9 times a day.
Through NKG the routing covers 2,077 km against the 1,957 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 39m 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 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Wuhan WUH at 4h 46m and Shanghai SHA at 4h 55m 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 Shenzhen, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Beijing to Shenzhen 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 SZX 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 SZX airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Beijing
- The written lane, Dubai to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Munich to Shenzhen
- The route calculator
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