The sector is held by China Southern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TBS Tbilisi to PKX Beijing
Tbilisi International, Georgia, to Daxing International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 5,858 km
- Block, estimated
- 7h 33m
- Door to door
- 14h 18m
What TBS to PKX looks like
The TBS to PKX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tbilisi TBS to Beijing PKX is a long haul sector of 5,858 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 5,858 km, 880 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 7h 33m.
Tbilisi TBS is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 72 scheduled destinations and 84 departures a day. Beijing PKX has 159 destinations and 553.7 departures a day.
Beijing carries about 6.6 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.
Beijing is 4 hours ahead of Tbilisi 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 TBS to PKX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBS to PKX | 0.43 | 3 | China Southern Airlines |
| PKX to TBS | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, China Southern Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg PKX to TBS carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 3 departures a week on TBS to PKX, 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 7h 33m block time on TBS to PKX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TBS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TBS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TBS to PKX in the air, estimated | 453 min | 12h 03m |
| Formalities at PKX | 90 min | 13h 33m |
| Delivery run in Beijing | 45 min | 14h 18m |
| Door to door | 858 min | 14h 18m |
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 TBS to PKX is 14h 18m.
A courier who leaves Tbilisi at 09:00 local is on the ground in Beijing at about 20:33 local and at the door by 22:48 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Beijing, the last useful departure from Tbilisi is around 04:12 local.
At 14h 18m 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. 13 of them join TBS to PKX.
| Connecting at | TBS to hub, flights a day | Hub to PKX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urumqi URC | 0.86 | 15.43 | 5,878 | 9h 16m |
| Almaty ALA | 1.86 | 1.14 | 5,899 | 9h 18m |
| Tashkent TAS | 1 | 1.29 | 5,968 | 9h 20m |
| Ekaterinburg SVX | 1.29 | 1 | 6,422 | 9h 53m |
| Shanghai PVG | 0.57 | 12.71 | 7,801 | 11h 59m |
| Doha DOH | 1.14 | 1.14 | 8,077 | 12h 07m |
13 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 6 times a week.
Through URC the routing covers 5,878 km against the 5,858 km nonstop track and takes about 9h 16m 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 43m 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 9h 18m and Tashkent TAS at 9h 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 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Beijing, Beijing PEK is 65 km away by great circle and carries 201 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Tbilisi 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 TBS to PKX 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 TBS airport entry
- The PKX airport entry
- Hand carry into Georgia
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
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