The sector is held by EASTAR JET and Jin Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PUS Busan to OKA Okinawa
Gimhae International, South Korea, to Naha Airport, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,006 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 47m
- Door to door
- 8h 32m
What PUS to OKA looks like
The PUS to OKA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Busan PUS to Okinawa OKA is a short sector of 1,006 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,006 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 47m.
Busan PUS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 48 scheduled destinations and 175 departures a day. Okinawa OKA has 35 destinations and 212 departures a day.
Busan and Okinawa 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 PUS to OKA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUS to OKA | 1.86 | 13 | EASTAR JET, Jin Air |
| OKA to PUS | 1.86 | 13 | EASTAR JET, Jin Air |
Two carriers hold the sector, EASTAR JET and Jin Air, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 26 departures a week on PUS to OKA, 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 47m block time on PUS to OKA. 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 OKA in the air, estimated | 107 min | 6h 17m |
| Formalities at OKA | 90 min | 7h 47m |
| Delivery run in Okinawa | 45 min | 8h 32m |
| Door to door | 512 min | 8h 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 PUS to OKA is 8h 32m.
A courier who leaves Busan at 09:00 local is on the ground in Okinawa at about 10:47 local and at the door by 13:02 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Okinawa, the last useful departure from Busan is around 13:58 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. 11 of them join PUS to OKA.
| Connecting at | PUS to hub, flights a day | Hub to OKA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 13.43 | 25.43 | 1,090 | 3h 26m |
| Osaka KIX | 13.29 | 10.86 | 1,751 | 4h 21m |
| Seoul ICN | 5.86 | 6.86 | 1,597 | 4h 21m |
| Shanghai PVG | 5.57 | 0.57 | 1,593 | 4h 41m |
| Nagoya NGO | 2.29 | 15.43 | 2,018 | 4h 43m |
| Taipei TPE | 18.14 | 16 | 1,999 | 4h 56m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at PUS in the afternoon actually flies on.
11 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Fukuoka FUK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 13.4 times a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 1,090 km against the 1,006 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 26m 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, Osaka KIX at 4h 21m and Seoul ICN at 4h 21m 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 OKA. 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 Okinawa 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 OKA 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 OKA airport entry
- Hand carry into South Korea
- Hand carry into Japan
- The route calculator
More pairs through PUS and OKA: Taipei to Okinawa, Nagoya to Okinawa, Okinawa to Osaka, Tokyo to Okinawa, Hong Kong to Okinawa, Okinawa to Tokyo, Fukuoka to Okinawa, Osaka to Okinawa.