The sector is held by Air Busan, EASTAR JET, Jeju Air, Jin Air and T'Way Air.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KIX Osaka to PUS Busan
Kansai International, Japan, to Gimhae International, South Korea. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 13.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 582 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 21m
- Door to door
- 8h 06m
What KIX to PUS looks like
The KIX to PUS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Osaka KIX to Busan PUS is a short sector of 582 km by great circle, flown nonstop 13.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 582 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 21m.
Osaka KIX is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 70 scheduled destinations and 267.1 departures a day. Busan PUS has 48 destinations and 175 departures a day.
Osaka and Busan 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 KIX to PUS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIX to PUS | 13.71 | 96 | Air Busan, EASTAR JET, Jeju Air, Jin Air, T'Way Air |
| PUS to KIX | 13.29 | 93 | Air Busan, EASTAR JET, Jeju Air, Jin Air, T'Way Air |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 13.7 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 189 departures a week on KIX to PUS, 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 21m block time on KIX to PUS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to KIX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KIX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KIX to PUS in the air, estimated | 81 min | 5h 51m |
| Formalities at PUS | 90 min | 7h 21m |
| Delivery run in Busan | 45 min | 8h 06m |
| Door to door | 486 min | 8h 06m |
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 KIX to PUS is 8h 06m.
A courier who leaves Osaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Busan at about 10:21 local and at the door by 12:36 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Busan, the last useful departure from Osaka is around 14:24 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. 25 of them join KIX to PUS.
| Connecting at | KIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to PUS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 4.57 | 13.43 | 677 | 3h 00m |
| Jeju CJU | 1.14 | 34.29 | 1,104 | 3h 28m |
| Seoul GMP | 11.47 | 18.43 | 1,163 | 3h 33m |
| Seoul ICN | 42.29 | 5.86 | 1,198 | 3h 51m |
| Tokyo NRT | 6.79 | 8.86 | 1,529 | 4h 18m |
| Okinawa OKA | 10.86 | 1.86 | 2,175 | 4h 47m |
With 13.7 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.
25 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Fukuoka FUK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.6 times a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 677 km against the 582 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 00m 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 39m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Jeju CJU at 3h 28m and Seoul GMP at 3h 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 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Busan, Fukuoka FUK is 225 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through KIX or PUS. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Hyundai and Kia, Ulsan and HwaseongThe largest car plant complex in the world by capacity at Ulsan. Korean lines with European and American tooling. Logistics through Busan PUS.
Plan Osaka to Busan 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 KIX to PUS 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 KIX airport entry
- The PUS airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into South Korea
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through KIX and PUS: Osaka to Seoul, Osaka to Taipei, Osaka to Hong Kong, Osaka to Shanghai, Singapore to Osaka, Osaka to Tokyo, Bangkok to Osaka, San Francisco to Osaka.