The sector is held by Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Qingdao Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Tianjin Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TSN Tianjin to KMG Kunming
Tianjin Binhai, China, to Kunming Changshui, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,062 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 08m
- Door to door
- 9h 53m
What TSN to KMG looks like
The TSN to KMG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tianjin TSN to Kunming KMG is a medium haul sector of 2,062 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,062 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 08m.
Tianjin TSN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 79 scheduled destinations and 183.7 departures a day. Kunming KMG has 130 destinations and 466.1 departures a day.
Kunming carries about 2.5 times the departures of Tianjin, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Tianjin and Kunming 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 TSN to KMG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSN to KMG | 6.29 | 44 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Qingdao Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines |
| KMG to TSN | 6.16 | 43.1 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Qingdao Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, Tianjin Airlines |
6 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
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 87.1 departures a week on TSN to KMG, 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 3h 08m block time on TSN to KMG. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to TSN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At TSN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| TSN to KMG in the air, estimated | 188 min | 7h 38m |
| Formalities at KMG | 90 min | 9h 08m |
| Delivery run in Kunming | 45 min | 9h 53m |
| Door to door | 593 min | 9h 53m |
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 TSN to KMG is 9h 53m.
A courier who leaves Tianjin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Kunming at about 12:08 local and at the door by 14:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Kunming, the last useful departure from Tianjin is around 12:37 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 TSN to KMG.
| Connecting at | TSN to hub, flights a day | Hub to KMG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chengdu CTU | 6 | 9.71 | 2,163 | 4h 53m |
| Xian XIY | 7.29 | 20.57 | 2,106 | 4h 56m |
| Chongqing CKG | 7.86 | 4.57 | 2,063 | 5h 01m |
| Chengdu TFU | 5.29 | 13.71 | 2,129 | 5h 05m |
| Wuhan WUH | 5.86 | 15.14 | 2,244 | 5h 07m |
| Changsha CSX | 5.86 | 13.57 | 2,352 | 5h 16m |
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 Chengdu CTU, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through CTU the routing covers 2,163 km against the 2,062 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 53m 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 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xian XIY at 4h 56m and Chongqing CKG at 5h 01m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tianjin, Beijing PKX is 91 km away by great circle and carries 159 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through TSN or KMG. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, TianjinA320 family final assembly and A350 completion. The longest supply line Airbus runs, and the one most exposed to a missing part. Logistics through Tianjin TSN.
Plan Tianjin to Kunming 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 TSN to KMG 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.
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