The sector is held by Hainan Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PRG Prague to PEK Beijing
Vaclav Havel Airport, Czechia, to Capital International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 7,461 km
- Block, estimated
- 9h 29m
- Door to door
- 16h 14m
What PRG to PEK looks like
The PRG to PEK sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Prague PRG to Beijing PEK is a long haul sector of 7,461 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 7,461 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 9h 29m.
Prague PRG is a major hub in the network held here, 191 scheduled destinations and 251.7 departures a day. Beijing PEK has 201 destinations and 651.4 departures a day.
Beijing carries about 2.6 times the departures of Prague, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Beijing runs 7 hours ahead of Prague 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 PRG to PEK from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRG to PEK | 0.43 | 3 | Hainan Airlines |
| PEK to PRG | 0.43 | 3 | 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.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on PRG 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 9h 29m block time on PRG 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 PRG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PRG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PRG to PEK in the air, estimated | 569 min | 13h 59m |
| Formalities at PEK | 90 min | 15h 29m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 16h 14m |
| Door to door | 974 min | 16h 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 PRG to PEK is 16h 14m.
A courier who leaves Prague at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 01:29 local and at the door by 03:44 the following day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, nothing leaving Prague 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 16h 14m 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. 39 of them join PRG to PEK.
| Connecting at | PRG to hub, flights a day | Hub to PEK, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astana NQZ | 0.57 | 1.29 | 7,591 | 11h 09m |
| Warsaw WAW | 5 | 1.14 | 7,465 | 11h 23m |
| Vienna VIE | 3.57 | 1.43 | 7,730 | 11h 39m |
| Stockholm ARN | 2.57 | 1.43 | 7,778 | 11h 42m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.86 | 1.14 | 7,800 | 11h 47m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 6 | 1.14 | 7,817 | 11h 50m |
39 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Astana NQZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through NQZ the routing covers 7,591 km against the 7,461 km nonstop track and takes about 11h 09m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Warsaw WAW at 11h 23m and Vienna VIE at 11h 39m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Prague, Leipzig LEJ is 205 km away by great circle and carries 85 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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through PRG or PEK. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Skoda, Mlada BoleslavAssembly and component production. An hour from Prague, and Prague is the gate. Logistics through Prague PRG.
Plan Prague 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 PRG 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 PRG airport entry
- The PEK airport entry
- Hand carry into Czechia
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Sharjah to Prague
- The written lane, Dubai to Beijing
- The route calculator
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