The sector is held by Air China.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
DEL Delhi to PEK Beijing
Indira Gandhi International, India, to Capital International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 3,809 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 05m
- Door to door
- 11h 50m
What DEL to PEK looks like
The DEL to PEK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Delhi DEL to Beijing PEK is a long haul sector of 3,809 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 3,809 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 05m.
Delhi DEL is a large airport in the network held here, 133 scheduled destinations and 607.8 departures a day. Beijing PEK has 201 destinations and 651.4 departures a day.
Beijing is 2.5 hours ahead of Delhi 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 DEL to PEK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEL to PEK | 0.57 | 4 | Air China |
| PEK to DEL | 0.57 | 4 | Air China |
One carrier holds the sector, Air China, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on DEL to PEK, 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 05m block time on DEL to PEK. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to DEL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At DEL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| DEL to PEK in the air, estimated | 305 min | 9h 35m |
| Formalities at PEK | 90 min | 11h 05m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 11h 50m |
| Door to door | 710 min | 11h 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 DEL to PEK is 11h 50m.
A courier who leaves Delhi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 16:35 local and at the door by 18:50 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, the last useful departure from Delhi is around 08:10 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. 41 of them join DEL to PEK.
| Connecting at | DEL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PEK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhaka DAC | 2.29 | 0.71 | 4,465 | 7h 29m |
| Almaty ALA | 2.29 | 1.86 | 4,916 | 8h 02m |
| Hanoi HAN | 2.64 | 2.01 | 5,332 | 8h 36m |
| Seoul ICN | 1.71 | 10.29 | 5,555 | 9h 00m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 1.14 | 22.29 | 5,531 | 9h 03m |
| Shanghai PVG | 1.57 | 1.71 | 5,391 | 9h 04m |
41 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Dhaka DAC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through DAC the routing covers 4,465 km against the 3,809 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 29m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 24m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Almaty ALA at 8h 02m and Hanoi HAN at 8h 36m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Beijing, Beijing PKX is 65 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Delhi to Beijing 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 DEL to PEK 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 DEL airport entry
- The PEK airport entry
- Hand carry into India
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Delhi
- The written lane, Delhi to Abu Dhabi
- The written lane, Delhi to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
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