The sector is held by Juneyao Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KIX Osaka to NKG Nanjing
Kansai International, Japan, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,553 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 29m
- Door to door
- 9h 14m
What KIX to NKG looks like
The KIX to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Osaka KIX to Nanjing NKG is a medium haul sector of 1,553 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,553 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 29m.
Osaka KIX is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 70 scheduled destinations and 267.1 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Nanjing is one hour behind of Osaka 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 KIX to NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIX to NKG | 0.29 | 2 | Juneyao Airlines |
| NKG to KIX | 0.29 | 2 | Juneyao Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Juneyao Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on KIX 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 2h 29m block time on KIX 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 KIX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KIX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KIX to NKG in the air, estimated | 149 min | 6h 59m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 8h 29m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 9h 14m |
| Door to door | 554 min | 9h 14m |
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 NKG is 9h 14m.
A courier who leaves Osaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 10:29 local and at the door by 12:44 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Osaka is around 14:16 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. 18 of them join KIX to NKG.
| Connecting at | KIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeju CJU | 1.14 | 3.14 | 1,554 | 4h 07m |
| Busan PUS | 13.71 | 0.86 | 1,591 | 4h 08m |
| Seoul ICN | 42.29 | 4.14 | 1,802 | 4h 33m |
| Shanghai PVG | 16 | 2.43 | 1,594 | 4h 35m |
| Taipei TPE | 21.57 | 1.29 | 2,479 | 5h 34m |
| Kaohsiung KHH | 6.71 | 0.57 | 2,989 | 5h 49m |
18 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Jeju CJU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CJU the routing covers 1,554 km against the 1,553 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 07m 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 38m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Busan PUS at 4h 08m and Seoul ICN 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 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 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 Osaka 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 KIX 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 KIX airport entry
- The NKG airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through KIX and NKG: 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.