The sector is held by China Airlines and EVA Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
ORD Chicago to KIX Osaka
O'Hare International, the United States, to Kansai International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 10,449 km
- Block, estimated
- 13h 05m
- Door to door
- 19h 50m
What ORD to KIX looks like
The ORD to KIX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Chicago ORD to Osaka KIX is an ultra long sector of 10,449 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 10,449 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 13h 05m.
Chicago ORD is a major hub in the network held here, 295 scheduled destinations and 1,461 departures a day. Osaka KIX has 70 destinations and 267.1 departures a day.
Chicago carries about 5.5 times the departures of Osaka, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Osaka runs 15 hours ahead of Chicago in January and 14 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between the Americas and 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 ORD to KIX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD to KIX | 0.86 | 6 | China Airlines, EVA Air |
| KIX to ORD | 0.14 | 1 | China Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, China Airlines and EVA Air, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: ORD to KIX runs 6 times a week, the return runs about once a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 7 departures a week on ORD to KIX, 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 13h 05m block time on ORD to KIX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to ORD | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At ORD before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| ORD to KIX in the air, estimated | 785 min | 17h 35m |
| Formalities at KIX | 90 min | 19h 05m |
| Delivery run in Osaka | 45 min | 19h 50m |
| Door to door | 1,190 min | 19h 50m |
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 ORD to KIX is 19h 50m.
A courier who leaves Chicago at 09:00 local is on the ground in Osaka at about 13:05 local and at the door by 15:20 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Osaka, nothing leaving Chicago inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 19h 50m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 24 of them join ORD to KIX.
| Connecting at | ORD to hub, flights a day | Hub to KIX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo HND | 1.14 | 2 | 10,556 | 15h 05m |
| Tokyo NRT | 4.57 | 5.71 | 10,565 | 15h 06m |
| Vancouver YVR | 5.86 | 0.71 | 10,765 | 15h 25m |
| Seoul ICN | 4.71 | 41.29 | 11,379 | 16h 01m |
| San Francisco SFO | 19.86 | 1 | 11,656 | 16h 30m |
| Los Angeles LAX | 28 | 1.43 | 12,023 | 17h 11m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Tokyo HND, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through HND the routing covers 10,556 km against the 10,449 km nonstop track and takes about 15h 05m 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 00m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Tokyo NRT at 15h 06m and Vancouver YVR at 15h 25m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Chicago, Chicago MDW is 25 km away by great circle and carries 208 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Chicago to Osaka 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 ORD to KIX 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 ORD airport entry
- The KIX airport entry
- Hand carry into the United States
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Chicago
- The written lane, Chicago to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Chicago to Queretaro
- The route calculator
More pairs through ORD and KIX: Osaka to Seoul, Osaka to Taipei, Osaka to Hong Kong, Osaka to Shanghai, Singapore to Osaka, Osaka to Tokyo, Bangkok to Osaka, San Francisco to Osaka.