The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines, Jeju Air, Korean Air, Shanghai Airlines and Spring Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PUS Busan to PVG Shanghai
Gimhae International, South Korea, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 5.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 801 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 31m
- Door to door
- 8h 16m
What PUS to PVG looks like
The PUS to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Busan PUS to Shanghai PVG is a short sector of 801 km by great circle, flown nonstop 5.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 801 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 31m.
Busan PUS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 48 scheduled destinations and 175 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Shanghai carries about 4.5 times the departures of Busan, 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 is one hour 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 PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUS to PVG | 5.57 | 39 | China Eastern Airlines, Jeju Air, Korean Air, Shanghai Airlines, Spring Airlines |
| PVG to PUS | 5.43 | 38 | China Eastern Airlines, Jeju Air, Korean Air, Shanghai Airlines, Spring Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 5.6 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 77 departures a week on PUS 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 1h 31m block time on PUS 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 PUS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PUS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PUS to PVG in the air, estimated | 91 min | 6h 01m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 7h 31m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 8h 16m |
| Door to door | 496 min | 8h 16m |
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 PVG is 8h 16m.
A courier who leaves Busan at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 09:31 local and at the door by 11:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Busan is around 15:14 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. 27 of them join PUS to PVG.
| Connecting at | PUS to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeju CJU | 32.71 | 12.71 | 804 | 3h 11m |
| Fukuoka FUK | 13.43 | 4 | 1,081 | 3h 26m |
| Nanjing NKG | 0.86 | 2.43 | 1,296 | 3h 42m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 0.71 | 1.14 | 1,133 | 3h 44m |
| Seoul ICN | 5.86 | 22.43 | 1,160 | 3h 48m |
| Okinawa OKA | 1.86 | 0.57 | 1,798 | 4h 27m |
With 5.6 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.
27 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Jeju CJU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 12.7 times a day.
Through CJU the routing covers 804 km against the 801 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 11m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Fukuoka FUK at 3h 26m and Nanjing NKG at 3h 42m 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.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through PUS or PVG. 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 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 PUS 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 PUS airport entry
- The PVG airport entry
- Hand carry into South Korea
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The written lane, Dubai to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through PUS and PVG: Busan to Taipei, Seoul to Busan, Osaka to Busan, Busan to Singapore, Busan to Tokyo, Nagoya to Busan, Busan to Hong Kong, Busan to Bangkok.