The sector is held by Air China and Air France.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CDG Paris to PEK Beijing
Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, to Capital International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 8,189 km
- Block, estimated
- 10h 22m
- Door to door
- 17h 07m
What CDG to PEK looks like
The CDG to PEK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Paris CDG to Beijing PEK is an ultra long sector of 8,189 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 8,189 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 10h 22m.
Paris CDG is a major hub in the network held here, 277 scheduled destinations and 771.4 departures a day. Beijing PEK has 201 destinations and 651.4 departures a day.
Beijing runs 7 hours ahead of Paris 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 CDG to PEK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDG to PEK | 3.29 | 23 | Air China, Air France |
| PEK to CDG | 3.14 | 22 | Air China, Air France |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air China and Air France, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.3 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 45 departures a week on CDG 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 10h 22m block time on CDG 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 CDG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CDG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CDG to PEK in the air, estimated | 622 min | 14h 52m |
| Formalities at PEK | 90 min | 16h 22m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 17h 07m |
| Door to door | 1,027 min | 17h 07m |
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 CDG to PEK is 17h 07m.
A courier who leaves Paris at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 02:22 local and at the door by 04:37 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, nothing leaving Paris 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 17h 07m the mission is past the sixteen hour duty day a single courier is planned against, so it is quoted with a rest at the far end or with a second courier, and never as a turnaround.
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. 62 of them join CDG to PEK.
| Connecting at | CDG to hub, flights a day | Hub to PEK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels BRU | 3.86 | 2.29 | 8,196 | 12h 11m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 11.14 | 1.14 | 8,198 | 12h 12m |
| Berlin BER | 10.29 | 0.86 | 8,213 | 12h 13m |
| Stockholm ARN | 7.43 | 1.43 | 8,230 | 12h 17m |
| Warsaw WAW | 7.86 | 1.14 | 8,286 | 12h 20m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 12.43 | 0.86 | 8,225 | 12h 31m |
With 3.3 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.
62 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Brussels BRU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through BRU the routing covers 8,196 km against the 8,189 km nonstop track and takes about 12h 11m 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 49m 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 12h 12m and Berlin BER at 12h 13m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Paris, Paris ORY is 35 km away by great circle and carries 157 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Paris CDG is shut to scheduled movements between 00:00 and 05:00 local, so a collection in Paris that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Beijing.
Paris CDG, night restrictions: Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CDG or PEK. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Safran, Villaroche and CorbeilEngine assembly and test for the CFM programmes. The most produced engine family in the world generates the most spare movements. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Renault, Flins and DouaiAssembly and electric vehicle production. Paris is both the plant region and the intercontinental gate. Logistics through Paris CDG.
- Sanofi, Frankfurt Hoechst and ParisInsulin production and research. One company, two countries, one supply chain. Logistics through Paris CDG.
Plan Paris 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 CDG 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.
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More pairs through CDG and PEK: Paris to Frankfurt, London to Paris, Paris to Madrid, Amsterdam to Paris, Paris to Barcelona, Paris to Atlanta, Munich to Paris, Paris to Copenhagen.