The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines and Tianjin Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NKG Nanjing to XIY Xian
Nanjing Lukou, China, to Xi'an Xianyang, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 11.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 988 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 46m
- Door to door
- 8h 31m
What NKG to XIY looks like
The NKG to XIY sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Nanjing NKG to Xian XIY is a short sector of 988 km by great circle, flown nonstop 11.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 988 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 46m.
Nanjing NKG is a large airport in the network held here, 85 scheduled destinations and 360.8 departures a day. Xian XIY has 147 destinations and 533.4 departures a day.
Nanjing 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 NKG to XIY from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NKG to XIY | 11.43 | 80 | China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Tianjin Airlines |
| XIY to NKG | 11.14 | 78 | China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Tianjin Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 11.4 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 158 departures a week on NKG 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 1h 46m block time on NKG 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 NKG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NKG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NKG to XIY in the air, estimated | 106 min | 6h 16m |
| Formalities at XIY | 90 min | 7h 46m |
| Delivery run in Xian | 45 min | 8h 31m |
| Door to door | 511 min | 8h 31m |
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 NKG to XIY is 8h 31m.
A courier who leaves Nanjing at 09:00 local is on the ground in Xian at about 10:46 local and at the door by 13:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Xian, the last useful departure from Nanjing is around 13:59 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. 23 of them join NKG to XIY.
| Connecting at | NKG to hub, flights a day | Hub to XIY, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changsha CSX | 4.71 | 12.86 | 1,487 | 4h 16m |
| Beijing PKX | 3.29 | 18 | 1,774 | 4h 31m |
| Shanghai PVG | 2.43 | 14.29 | 1,560 | 4h 33m |
| Chongqing CKG | 15.86 | 4.29 | 1,751 | 4h 36m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 5 | 7 | 2,061 | 4h 45m |
| Xiamen XMN | 10.14 | 8 | 2,229 | 4h 51m |
With 11.4 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.
23 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Changsha CSX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.7 times a day.
Through CSX the routing covers 1,487 km against the 988 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 16m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 30m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Beijing PKX at 4h 31m and Shanghai PVG at 4h 33m 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 Nanjing 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 NKG 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.
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