The sector is held by AirAsia, China Airlines, EVA Air, Malta Medair and Tigerair Taiwan.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KHH Kaohsiung to KIX Osaka
Kaohsiung International, Taiwan, to Kansai International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,959 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 00m
- Door to door
- 9h 45m
What KHH to KIX looks like
The KHH to KIX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Kaohsiung KHH to Osaka KIX is a medium haul sector of 1,959 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,959 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 00m.
Kaohsiung KHH is a smaller airport in the network held here, 37 scheduled destinations and 99.9 departures a day. Osaka KIX has 70 destinations and 267.1 departures a day.
Osaka carries about 2.7 times the departures of Kaohsiung, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Osaka is one hour ahead of Kaohsiung 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 KHH to KIX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHH to KIX | 6.71 | 47 | AirAsia, China Airlines, EVA Air, Malta Medair, Tigerair Taiwan |
| KIX to KHH | 6.71 | 47 | AirAsia, China Airlines, EVA Air, Malta Medair, Tigerair Taiwan |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 6.7 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 93.9 departures a week on KHH to KIX, 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 3h 00m block time on KHH to KIX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to KHH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KHH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KHH to KIX in the air, estimated | 180 min | 7h 30m |
| Formalities at KIX | 90 min | 9h 00m |
| Delivery run in Osaka | 45 min | 9h 45m |
| Door to door | 585 min | 9h 45m |
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 KHH to KIX is 9h 45m.
A courier who leaves Kaohsiung at 09:00 local is on the ground in Osaka at about 13:00 local and at the door by 15:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Osaka, the last useful departure from Kaohsiung is around 11:45 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. 21 of them join KHH to KIX.
| Connecting at | KHH to hub, flights a day | Hub to KIX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okinawa OKA | 3 | 12.14 | 2,010 | 4h 34m |
| Fukuoka FUK | 2.14 | 4.57 | 2,025 | 4h 41m |
| Jeju CJU | 1.43 | 1.14 | 2,169 | 4h 46m |
| Busan PUS | 3.43 | 13.29 | 2,212 | 4h 56m |
| Seoul GMP | 1.71 | 11.43 | 2,612 | 5h 20m |
| Shanghai PVG | 2.29 | 15 | 2,270 | 5h 24m |
With 6.7 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.
21 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Okinawa OKA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3 times a day.
Through OKA the routing covers 2,010 km against the 1,959 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 34m 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, Fukuoka FUK at 4h 41m and Jeju CJU at 4h 46m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Kaohsiung to Osaka 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 KHH to KIX 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 KHH airport entry
- The KIX airport entry
- Hand carry into Taiwan
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through KHH and KIX: Hong Kong to Kaohsiung, Tokyo to Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi to Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung to Manila, Nagoya to Kaohsiung, Busan to Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung to Shenzhen.