The sector is held by Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines and Sichuan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TFU Chengdu to NKG Nanjing
Chengdu Shuangliu, China, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 14.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,382 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 16m
- Door to door
- 9h 01m
What TFU to NKG looks like
The TFU to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Chengdu TFU to Nanjing NKG is a medium haul sector of 1,382 km by great circle, flown nonstop 14.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,382 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 16m.
Chengdu TFU is a major hub in the network held here, 173 scheduled destinations and 533.1 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Chengdu and Nanjing 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 TFU to NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFU to NKG | 14.86 | 104 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Sichuan Airlines |
| NKG to TFU | 14.14 | 99 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Sichuan Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 14.9 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 203 departures a week on TFU to NKG, 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 2h 16m block time on TFU to NKG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TFU | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TFU before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TFU to NKG in the air, estimated | 136 min | 6h 46m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 8h 16m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 9h 01m |
| Door to door | 541 min | 9h 01m |
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 TFU to NKG is 9h 01m.
A courier who leaves Chengdu at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 11:16 local and at the door by 13:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Chengdu is around 13:29 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. 26 of them join TFU to NKG.
| Connecting at | TFU to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changsha CSX | 10.14 | 5.71 | 1,556 | 4h 22m |
| Xian XIY | 1.14 | 11.14 | 1,600 | 4h 25m |
| Xiamen XMN | 9.29 | 9.86 | 2,298 | 4h 56m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 5.71 | 4.57 | 2,219 | 4h 57m |
| Shanghai PVG | 13.9 | 2.43 | 1,948 | 5h 02m |
| Nanning NNG | 7.14 | 7.29 | 2,398 | 5h 03m |
With 14.9 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.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Changsha CSX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.7 times a day.
Through CSX the routing covers 1,556 km against the 1,382 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 22m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 06m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xian XIY at 4h 25m and Xiamen XMN at 4h 56m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Chengdu, Chengdu CTU is 56 km away by great circle and carries 67 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Nanjing, Hangzhou HGH is 225 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Chengdu to Nanjing 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 TFU to NKG 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.
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