The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines, Fuzhou Airlines, Hainan Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
FOC Fuzhou to XIY Xian
Fuzhou Changle, China, to Xi'an Xianyang, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,411 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 18m
- Door to door
- 9h 03m
What FOC to XIY looks like
The FOC to XIY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Fuzhou FOC to Xian XIY is a medium haul sector of 1,411 km by great circle, flown nonstop 7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,411 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 18m.
Fuzhou FOC is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 80 scheduled destinations and 158.4 departures a day. Xian XIY has 147 destinations and 533.4 departures a day.
Xian carries about 3.4 times the departures of Fuzhou, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Fuzhou and Xian 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 FOC to XIY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOC to XIY | 7 | 49 | China Eastern Airlines, Fuzhou Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
| XIY to FOC | 6.86 | 48 | China Eastern Airlines, Fuzhou Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 7 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 97 departures a week on FOC to XIY, 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 18m block time on FOC to XIY. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to FOC | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At FOC before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| FOC to XIY in the air, estimated | 138 min | 6h 48m |
| Formalities at XIY | 90 min | 8h 18m |
| Delivery run in Xian | 45 min | 9h 03m |
| Door to door | 543 min | 9h 03m |
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 FOC to XIY is 9h 03m.
A courier who leaves Fuzhou at 09:00 local is on the ground in Xian at about 11:18 local and at the door by 13:33 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Xian, the last useful departure from Fuzhou is around 13:27 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. 22 of them join FOC to XIY.
| Connecting at | FOC to hub, flights a day | Hub to XIY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 1.14 | 8 | 1,644 | 4h 08m |
| Nanjing NKG | 4.57 | 11.43 | 1,638 | 4h 13m |
| Changsha CSX | 4.29 | 12.86 | 1,500 | 4h 18m |
| Wuhan WUH | 4.71 | 1.14 | 1,411 | 4h 20m |
| Shanghai SHA | 4.44 | 19.29 | 1,837 | 4h 28m |
| Chongqing CKG | 8.43 | 4.29 | 1,909 | 4h 48m |
With 7 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.
22 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Xiamen XMN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 1,644 km against the 1,411 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 08m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Nanjing NKG at 4h 13m and Changsha CSX at 4h 18m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Fuzhou, Taipei TPE is 184 km away by great circle and carries 108 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Fuzhou to Xian 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 FOC to XIY 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 FOC and XIY: Taipei to Fuzhou, Jakarta to Fuzhou, Manila to Fuzhou, Fuzhou to Hanoi, Tianjin to Fuzhou, Fuzhou to Beijing, Fuzhou to Chongqing, Kunming to Fuzhou.