The sector is held by ANA, Japan Transocean Air, Malta Medair, Skymark Airlines and Solaseed Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FUK Fukuoka to OKA Okinawa
Fukuoka Airport, Japan, to Naha Airport, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 25.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 865 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 36m
- Door to door
- 8h 21m
What FUK to OKA looks like
The FUK to OKA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Fukuoka FUK to Okinawa OKA is a short sector of 865 km by great circle, flown nonstop 25.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 865 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 36m.
Fukuoka FUK is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 47 scheduled destinations and 294.4 departures a day. Okinawa OKA has 35 destinations and 212 departures a day.
Fukuoka and Okinawa 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 FUK to OKA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUK to OKA | 25.43 | 178 | ANA, Japan Transocean Air, Malta Medair, Skymark Airlines, Solaseed Air |
| OKA to FUK | 25.43 | 178 | ANA, Japan Transocean Air, Malta Medair, Skymark Airlines, Solaseed Air |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 25.4 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 356 departures a week on FUK to OKA, 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 36m block time on FUK to OKA. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to FUK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FUK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FUK to OKA in the air, estimated | 96 min | 6h 06m |
| Formalities at OKA | 90 min | 7h 36m |
| Delivery run in Okinawa | 45 min | 8h 21m |
| Door to door | 501 min | 8h 21m |
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 FUK to OKA is 8h 21m.
A courier who leaves Fukuoka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Okinawa at about 10:36 local and at the door by 12:51 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Okinawa, the last useful departure from Fukuoka is around 14:09 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. 14 of them join FUK to OKA.
| Connecting at | FUK to hub, flights a day | Hub to OKA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Busan PUS | 13.43 | 1.86 | 1,231 | 3h 37m |
| Osaka KIX | 4.57 | 10.86 | 1,621 | 4h 10m |
| Osaka ITM | 12.43 | 6.86 | 1,689 | 4h 15m |
| Nagoya NGO | 10.14 | 15.43 | 1,902 | 4h 33m |
| Seoul ICN | 29.29 | 6.86 | 1,822 | 4h 41m |
| Shanghai PVG | 4 | 0.57 | 1,648 | 4h 46m |
With 25.4 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.
14 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Busan PUS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through PUS the routing covers 1,231 km against the 865 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 37m 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 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Osaka KIX at 4h 10m and Osaka ITM at 4h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Fukuoka, Busan PUS is 225 km away by great circle and carries 48 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Fukuoka to Okinawa 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 FUK to OKA 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.
More pairs through FUK and OKA: Seoul to Fukuoka, Taipei to Fukuoka, Fukuoka to Nagoya, Fukuoka to Tokyo, Hong Kong to Fukuoka, Fukuoka to Osaka, Busan to Fukuoka, Tokyo to Fukuoka.