The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SHA Shanghai to FOC Fuzhou
Hongqiao International, China, to Fuzhou Changle, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 608 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 24m
- Door to door
- 8h 09m
What SHA to FOC looks like
The SHA to FOC sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Shanghai SHA to Fuzhou FOC is a short sector of 608 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 608 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 24m.
Shanghai SHA is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 60 scheduled destinations and 423.4 departures a day. Fuzhou FOC has 80 destinations and 158.4 departures a day.
Shanghai carries about 2.7 times the departures of Fuzhou, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Shanghai and Fuzhou keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 SHA to FOC from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHA to FOC | 6.29 | 44 | China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
| FOC to SHA | 4.44 | 31.1 | Shanghai Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, China Eastern Airlines |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: SHA to FOC runs 6.3 times a day, the return runs 4.4 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 6.3 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 75.1 departures a week on SHA to FOC, 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 1h 24m block time on SHA to FOC. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SHA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SHA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SHA to FOC in the air, estimated | 84 min | 5h 54m |
| Formalities at FOC | 90 min | 7h 24m |
| Delivery run in Fuzhou | 45 min | 8h 09m |
| Door to door | 489 min | 8h 09m |
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 SHA to FOC is 8h 09m.
A courier who leaves Shanghai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Fuzhou at about 10:24 local and at the door by 12:39 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Fuzhou, the last useful departure from Shanghai is around 14:21 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. 19 of them join SHA to FOC.
| Connecting at | SHA to hub, flights a day | Hub to FOC, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei TSA | 4.29 | 1.43 | 895 | 3h 19m |
| Xiamen XMN | 21.86 | 1.14 | 1,023 | 3h 21m |
| Changsha CSX | 8.14 | 4 | 1,537 | 4h 21m |
| Wuhan WUH | 7.29 | 3.96 | 1,439 | 4h 22m |
| Macau MFM | 5.43 | 0.57 | 2,012 | 4h 43m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 45 | 6.43 | 1,878 | 4h 47m |
With 6.3 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.
19 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Taipei TSA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TSA the routing covers 895 km against the 608 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 19m 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 55m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 3h 21m and Changsha CSX at 4h 21m 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 PVG is 45 km away by great circle and carries 206 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Fuzhou, Taipei TPE is 184 km away by great circle and carries 108 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Shanghai to Fuzhou 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 SHA to FOC 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.
More pairs through SHA and FOC: Taipei to Fuzhou, Jakarta to Fuzhou, Manila to Fuzhou, Fuzhou to Hanoi, Tianjin to Fuzhou, Fuzhou to Beijing, Fuzhou to Chongqing, Fuzhou to Xian.