The sector is held by Hainan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
OSL Oslo to PEK Beijing
Oslo Gardermoen, Norway, to Capital International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 6,983 km
- Block, estimated
- 8h 55m
- Door to door
- 15h 40m
What OSL to PEK looks like
The OSL to PEK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Oslo OSL to Beijing PEK is a long haul sector of 6,983 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 6,983 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 8h 55m.
Oslo OSL is a large airport in the network held here, 146 scheduled destinations and 378.2 departures a day. Beijing PEK has 201 destinations and 651.4 departures a day.
Beijing runs 7 hours ahead of Oslo in January and 6 hours ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Asia Pacific and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 46 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on OSL to PEK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSL to PEK | 0.29 | 2 | Hainan Airlines |
| PEK to OSL | 0.29 | 2 | Hainan Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Hainan 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 OSL to PEK, 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 8h 55m block time on OSL to PEK. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to OSL | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At OSL before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| OSL to PEK in the air, estimated | 535 min | 13h 25m |
| Formalities at PEK | 90 min | 14h 55m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 15h 40m |
| Door to door | 940 min | 15h 40m |
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 OSL to PEK is 15h 40m.
A courier who leaves Oslo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 00:55 local and at the door by 03:10 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, nothing leaving Oslo inside a normal working day arrives in time, so this pair is an overnight and a next morning delivery rather than a same day one.
At 15h 40m 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 OSL to PEK.
| Connecting at | OSL to hub, flights a day | Hub to PEK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm ARN | 18 | 1.43 | 7,076 | 10h 53m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 22.43 | 1.14 | 7,711 | 11h 41m |
| Warsaw WAW | 4 | 1.14 | 8,023 | 12h 00m |
| Berlin BER | 3.57 | 0.86 | 8,242 | 12h 15m |
| Vienna VIE | 2.29 | 1.43 | 8,841 | 13h 00m |
| Budapest BUD | 1.71 | 1.14 | 8,843 | 13h 01m |
34 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Stockholm ARN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through ARN the routing covers 7,076 km against the 6,983 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 58m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Copenhagen CPH at 11h 41m and Warsaw WAW at 12h 00m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Beijing, Beijing PKX is 65 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Oslo to Beijing 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 OSL to PEK 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 OSL airport entry
- The PEK airport entry
- Hand carry into Norway
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Oslo
- The written lane, Dubai to Beijing
- The route calculator
More pairs through OSL and PEK: Copenhagen to Oslo, Amsterdam to Oslo, Paris to Oslo, Stavanger to Oslo, London to Oslo, Frankfurt to Oslo, Munich to Oslo, Stockholm to Oslo.