The sector is held by EASTAR JET.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PUS Busan to ALA Almaty
Gimhae International, South Korea, to Almaty International, Kazakhstan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,485 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 54m
- Door to door
- 12h 39m
What PUS to ALA looks like
The PUS to ALA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Busan PUS to Almaty ALA is a long haul sector of 4,485 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,485 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 54m.
Busan PUS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 48 scheduled destinations and 175 departures a day. Almaty ALA has 86 destinations and 162 departures a day.
Almaty is 4 hours behind of Busan all year.
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 PUS to ALA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUS to ALA | 0.29 | 2 | EASTAR JET |
| ALA to PUS | 0.29 | 2 | EASTAR JET |
One carrier holds the sector, EASTAR JET, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on PUS to ALA, 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 5h 54m block time on PUS to ALA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PUS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PUS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PUS to ALA in the air, estimated | 354 min | 10h 24m |
| Formalities at ALA | 90 min | 11h 54m |
| Delivery run in Almaty | 45 min | 12h 39m |
| Door to door | 759 min | 12h 39m |
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 PUS to ALA is 12h 39m.
A courier who leaves Busan at 09:00 local is on the ground in Almaty at about 10:54 local and at the door by 13:09 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Almaty, the last useful departure from Busan is around 13:51 local.
At 12h 39m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 9 of them join PUS to ALA.
| Connecting at | PUS to hub, flights a day | Hub to ALA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul ICN | 5.86 | 2.14 | 4,510 | 7h 47m |
| Beijing PEK | 2 | 1.86 | 4,487 | 7h 59m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 0.71 | 1.14 | 5,044 | 8h 24m |
| Shanghai PVG | 5.57 | 1 | 4,934 | 8h 30m |
| Bangkok BKK | 2.14 | 0.86 | 7,698 | 11h 31m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seoul ICN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through ICN the routing covers 4,510 km against the 4,485 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 47m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 53m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Beijing PEK at 7h 59m and Hangzhou HGH at 8h 24m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Busan, Fukuoka FUK is 225 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through PUS or ALA. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Hyundai and Kia, Ulsan and HwaseongThe largest car plant complex in the world by capacity at Ulsan. Korean lines with European and American tooling. Logistics through Busan PUS.
Plan Busan to Almaty 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 PUS to ALA 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 PUS airport entry
- The ALA airport entry
- Hand carry into South Korea
- Hand carry into Kazakhstan
- The written lane, Almaty to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Almaty to Sharjah
- The written lane, Dubai to Almaty
- The route calculator
More pairs through PUS and ALA: Almaty to Istanbul, Almaty to Seoul, Almaty to Doha, Almaty to Delhi, Almaty to Abu Dhabi, Almaty to Baku, Zurich to Almaty, Almaty to Beijing.