The sector is held by Mandarin Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TPE Taipei to XMN Xiamen
Taoyuan International, Taiwan, to Xiamen Gaoqi, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 319 km
- Block, estimated
- 58 min
- Door to door
- 7h 43m
What TPE to XMN looks like
The TPE to XMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Taipei TPE to Xiamen XMN is a short sector of 319 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 319 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 58 min.
Taipei TPE is a large airport in the network held here, 108 scheduled destinations and 382.9 departures a day. Xiamen XMN has 98 destinations and 263 departures a day.
Taipei and Xiamen 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 TPE to XMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TPE to XMN | 2.29 | 16 | Mandarin Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
| XMN to TPE | 2.29 | 16 | Mandarin Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Mandarin Airlines and Xiamen Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on TPE to XMN, 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 58 min block time on TPE to XMN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TPE | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TPE before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TPE to XMN in the air, estimated | 58 min | 5h 28m |
| Formalities at XMN | 90 min | 6h 58m |
| Delivery run in Xiamen | 45 min | 7h 43m |
| Door to door | 463 min | 7h 43m |
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 TPE to XMN is 7h 43m.
A courier who leaves Taipei at 09:00 local is on the ground in Xiamen at about 09:58 local and at the door by 12:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Xiamen, the last useful departure from Taipei is around 14:47 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. 32 of them join TPE to XMN.
| Connecting at | TPE to hub, flights a day | Hub to XMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuzhou FOC | 1.14 | 1.14 | 403 | 2h 35m |
| Macau MFM | 8.29 | 1.29 | 1,378 | 3h 52m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 41.86 | 2.43 | 1,302 | 4h 01m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 2.86 | 6 | 1,333 | 4h 03m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 1.86 | 8 | 1,250 | 4h 05m |
| Nanjing NKG | 1.29 | 10.14 | 1,580 | 4h 11m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at TPE in the afternoon actually flies on.
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Fuzhou FOC, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through FOC the routing covers 403 km against the 319 km nonstop track and takes about 2h 35m 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 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Macau MFM at 3h 52m and Hong Kong HKG at 4h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 319 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 59m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Taipei, Fuzhou FOC is 184 km away by great circle and carries 80 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.
Taipei TPE, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through TPE or XMN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- TSMC, HsinchuThe largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. European lithography, Taiwanese fabs, and a clock that runs in fab hours. Logistics through Taipei TPE.
Plan Taipei to Xiamen 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 TPE to XMN 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 TPE airport entry
- The XMN airport entry
- Hand carry into Taiwan
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Taipei
- The written lane, Dubai to Taipei
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through TPE and XMN: Seoul to Taipei, Hong Kong to Taipei, Seattle to Taipei, Tokyo to Taipei, Taipei to Bangkok, Nagoya to Taipei, Osaka to Taipei, Taipei to Shanghai.