The sector is held by China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Donghai Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines and Shandong Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SZX Shenzhen to NKG Nanjing
Shenzhen Bao'an, China, to Nanjing Lukou, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 19.7 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,128 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 56m
- Door to door
- 8h 41m
What SZX to NKG looks like
The SZX to NKG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Shenzhen SZX to Nanjing NKG is a short sector of 1,128 km by great circle, flown nonstop 19.7 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,128 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 56m.
Shenzhen SZX is a major hub in the network held here, 157 scheduled destinations and 574.7 departures a day. Nanjing NKG has 85 destinations and 360.8 departures a day.
Shenzhen and Nanjing 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 SZX to NKG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SZX to NKG | 19.71 | 138 | China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Donghai Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, Shandong Airlines |
| NKG to SZX | 19.14 | 134 | China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Donghai Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines |
7 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 19.7 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 271.9 departures a week on SZX to NKG, 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 56m block time on SZX to NKG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to SZX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SZX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SZX to NKG in the air, estimated | 116 min | 6h 26m |
| Formalities at NKG | 90 min | 7h 56m |
| Delivery run in Nanjing | 45 min | 8h 41m |
| Door to door | 521 min | 8h 41m |
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 SZX to NKG is 8h 41m.
A courier who leaves Shenzhen at 09:00 local is on the ground in Nanjing at about 10:56 local and at the door by 13:11 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Nanjing, the last useful departure from Shenzhen is around 13:49 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. 26 of them join SZX to NKG.
| Connecting at | SZX to hub, flights a day | Hub to NKG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei TPE | 5.57 | 1.29 | 1,578 | 4h 25m |
| Shanghai PVG | 17.86 | 2.43 | 1,520 | 4h 29m |
| Nanning NNG | 1 | 7.29 | 2,044 | 4h 43m |
| Haikou HAK | 15.29 | 3.43 | 2,017 | 4h 55m |
| Chongqing CKG | 21.14 | 14.14 | 2,252 | 5h 07m |
| Sanya SYX | 8.43 | 5.57 | 2,435 | 5h 15m |
With 19.7 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.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Taipei TPE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through TPE the routing covers 1,578 km against the 1,128 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 25m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 29m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Shanghai PVG at 4h 29m and Nanning NNG at 4h 43m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shenzhen, Hong Kong HKG is 38 km away by great circle and carries 144 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Nanjing, Hangzhou HGH is 225 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Shenzhen to Nanjing 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 SZX to NKG 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 SZX airport entry
- The NKG airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Dubai to Shenzhen
- The written lane, Munich to Shenzhen
- The route calculator
More pairs through SZX and NKG: Guangzhou to Nanjing, Taipei to Nanjing, Nanjing to Kuala Lumpur, Nanjing to Ho Chi Minh City, Sydney to Nanjing, Nanjing to Melbourne, Jakarta to Nanjing, Nanjing to Kunming.