The sector is held by Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGK Jakarta to NKG Nanjing
Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 4,405 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 48m
- Door to door
- 12h 33m
What CGK to NKG looks like
The CGK to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jakarta CGK to Nanjing NKG is a long haul sector of 4,405 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,405 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 48m.
Jakarta CGK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 467.9 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Nanjing is one hour ahead of Jakarta 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 CGK to NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGK to NKG | 0.43 | 3 | Xiamen Airlines |
| NKG to CGK | 0.43 | 3 | Xiamen Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Xiamen Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on CGK to NKG, 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 48m block time on CGK to NKG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CGK | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CGK before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CGK to NKG in the air, estimated | 348 min | 10h 18m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 11h 48m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 12h 33m |
| Door to door | 753 min | 12h 33m |
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 CGK to NKG is 12h 33m.
A courier who leaves Jakarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 15:48 local and at the door by 18:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Jakarta is around 08:57 local.
At 12h 33m the mission uses most of a sixteen hour duty day, which leaves no room for a delay before a rest at the far end becomes the honest answer.
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. 20 of them join CGK to NKG.
| Connecting at | CGK to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 3.14 | 9.86 | 4,434 | 7h 24m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 1.14 | 4.57 | 4,482 | 7h 34m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 2.86 | 19.71 | 4,420 | 7h 39m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 5 | 4.14 | 4,416 | 7h 40m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.43 | 26.14 | 4,439 | 7h 41m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 2.14 | 1 | 4,527 | 7h 47m |
20 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 3.1 times a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 4,434 km against the 4,405 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 24m 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 36m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Fuzhou FOC at 7h 34m and Shenzhen SZX at 7h 39m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Nanjing, Hangzhou HGH is 225 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Jakarta to Nanjing 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 CGK to NKG 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 CGK airport entry
- The NKG airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Jakarta
- The written lane, Singapore to Jakarta
- The route calculator
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