The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
PVG Shanghai to TBS Tbilisi
Pudong International, China, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 6,750 km
- Block, estimated
- 8h 38m
- Door to door
- 15h 23m
What PVG to TBS looks like
The PVG to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Shanghai PVG to Tbilisi TBS is a long haul sector of 6,750 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 6,750 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 8h 38m.
Shanghai PVG is a major hub in the network held here, 206 scheduled destinations and 786.7 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Shanghai carries about 9.4 times the departures of Tbilisi, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tbilisi is 4 hours behind of Shanghai all year.
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 PVG to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PVG to TBS | 0.57 | 4 | China Eastern Airlines |
| TBS to PVG | 0.57 | 4 | China Eastern Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, China Eastern Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 8 departures a week on PVG to TBS, 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 38m block time on PVG to TBS. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to PVG | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At PVG before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| PVG to TBS in the air, estimated | 518 min | 13h 08m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 14h 38m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 15h 23m |
| Door to door | 923 min | 15h 23m |
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 PVG to TBS is 15h 23m.
A courier who leaves Shanghai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 13:38 local and at the door by 15:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Shanghai is around 11:07 local.
At 15h 23m 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. 24 of them join PVG to TBS.
| Connecting at | PVG to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urumqi URC | 4.86 | 1.57 | 6,752 | 10h 08m |
| Almaty ALA | 1 | 1.86 | 6,753 | 10h 20m |
| Tashkent TAS | 0.57 | 1 | 6,791 | 10h 20m |
| Kazan KZN | 0.57 | 0.71 | 7,710 | 11h 24m |
| Doha DOH | 2.29 | 1.14 | 8,719 | 12h 53m |
| Dubai DXB | 2.29 | 2.43 | 8,509 | 12h 54m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Urumqi URC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through URC the routing covers 6,752 km against the 6,750 km nonstop track and takes about 10h 08m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Almaty ALA at 10h 20m and Tashkent TAS at 10h 20m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Tbilisi, Yerevan EVN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 82 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.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Shanghai to Tbilisi 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 PVG to TBS 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 PVG airport entry
- The TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Shanghai
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The written lane, Dubai to Shanghai
- The route calculator
More pairs through PVG and TBS: Taipei to Shanghai, Shanghai to Guangzhou, Hong Kong to Shanghai, London to Shanghai, Barcelona to Shanghai, Amsterdam to Shanghai, Shanghai to Shenzhen, Milan to Shanghai.