The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines and Garuda Indonesia.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CGK Jakarta to PVG Shanghai
Soekarno Hatta International, Indonesia, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 4,446 km
- Block, estimated
- 5h 51m
- Door to door
- 12h 36m
What CGK to PVG looks like
The CGK to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Jakarta CGK to Shanghai PVG is a long haul sector of 4,446 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 4,446 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 5h 51m.
Jakarta CGK is a large airport in the network held here, 89 scheduled destinations and 467.9 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Shanghai 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 PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CGK to PVG | 2.14 | 15 | China Eastern Airlines, Garuda Indonesia |
| PVG to CGK | 2 | 14 | China Eastern Airlines, Garuda Indonesia |
Two carriers hold the sector, China Eastern Airlines and Garuda Indonesia, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 29 departures a week on CGK to PVG, 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 51m block time on CGK to PVG. 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 PVG in the air, estimated | 351 min | 10h 21m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 11h 51m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 12h 36m |
| Door to door | 756 min | 12h 36m |
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 PVG is 12h 36m.
A courier who leaves Jakarta at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 15:51 local and at the door by 18:06 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Jakarta is around 08:54 local.
At 12h 36m 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. 34 of them join CGK to PVG.
| Connecting at | CGK to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiamen XMN | 3.14 | 3 | 4,448 | 7h 25m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 5 | 23.14 | 4,515 | 7h 47m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 2.86 | 17.86 | 4,525 | 7h 47m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 3.43 | 10.29 | 4,564 | 7h 50m |
| Taipei TPE | 3.29 | 11.29 | 4,488 | 7h 50m |
| Ho Chi Minh City SGN | 2.14 | 6 | 4,630 | 7h 54m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CGK in the afternoon actually flies on.
34 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 times a day.
Through XMN the routing covers 4,448 km against the 4,446 km nonstop track and takes about 7h 25m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Hong Kong HKG at 7h 47m and Shenzhen SZX at 7h 47m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Jakarta to Shanghai 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 PVG 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 PVG airport entry
- Hand carry into Indonesia
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Jakarta
- The written lane, Singapore to Jakarta
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through CGK and PVG: Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, Jakarta to Bali, Jakarta to Jeddah, Seoul to Jakarta, Jakarta to Abu Dhabi, Taipei to Jakarta, Jakarta to Doha, Bangkok to Jakarta.