The sector is held by Chongqing Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CKG Chongqing to CMB Colombo
Chongqing Jiangbei, China, to Bandaranaike International, Sri Lanka. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,754 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 01m
- Door to door
- 11h 46m
What CKG to CMB looks like
The CKG to CMB sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Chongqing CKG to Colombo CMB is a long haul sector of 3,754 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,754 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 01m.
Chongqing CKG is a large airport in the network held here, 145 scheduled destinations and 451.1 departures a day. Colombo CMB has 45 destinations and 93.2 departures a day.
Chongqing carries about 4.8 times the departures of Colombo, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Colombo is 2.5 hours behind of Chongqing 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 CKG to CMB from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CKG to CMB | 0.43 | 3 | Chongqing Airlines |
| CMB to CKG | 0.29 | 2 | Chongqing Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Chongqing Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: CKG to CMB runs 3 times a week, the return runs 2 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 5 departures a week on CKG to CMB, 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 01m block time on CKG to CMB. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CKG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CKG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CKG to CMB in the air, estimated | 301 min | 9h 31m |
| Formalities at CMB | 90 min | 11h 01m |
| Delivery run in Colombo | 45 min | 11h 46m |
| Door to door | 706 min | 11h 46m |
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 CKG to CMB is 11h 46m.
A courier who leaves Chongqing at 09:00 local is on the ground in Colombo at about 11:31 local and at the door by 13:46 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Colombo, the last useful departure from Chongqing is around 13:14 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. 16 of them join CKG to CMB.
| Connecting at | CKG to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMB, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunming KMG | 4.57 | 0.57 | 3,787 | 6h 59m |
| Bangkok DMK | 1.71 | 0.86 | 4,248 | 7h 26m |
| Bangkok BKK | 2.57 | 3.43 | 4,276 | 7h 42m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 19.14 | 0.71 | 4,961 | 8h 18m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 1 | 0.86 | 5,068 | 8h 28m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 3.14 | 1.14 | 5,110 | 8h 29m |
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Kunming KMG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through KMG the routing covers 3,787 km against the 3,754 km nonstop track and takes about 6h 59m 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 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bangkok DMK at 7h 26m and Bangkok BKK at 7h 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 Chongqing, Chengdu TFU is 222 km away by great circle and carries 173 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Chongqing to Colombo 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 CKG to CMB 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 CKG airport entry
- The CMB airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Sri Lanka
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Colombo
- The written lane, Colombo to Sharjah
- The written lane, Dubai to Colombo
- The route calculator
More pairs through CKG and CMB: Shanghai to Chongqing, Beijing to Chongqing, Chongqing to Guangzhou, Shenzhen to Chongqing, Taipei to Chongqing, Chongqing to Kuala Lumpur, Chongqing to Tianjin, Chongqing to Hanoi.