The sector is held by Tianjin Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TSN Tianjin to KIX Osaka
Tianjin Binhai, China, to Kansai International, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,674 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 38m
- Door to door
- 9h 23m
What TSN to KIX looks like
The TSN to KIX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tianjin TSN to Osaka KIX is a medium haul sector of 1,674 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,674 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 38m.
Tianjin TSN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 79 scheduled destinations and 183.7 departures a day. Osaka KIX has 70 destinations and 267.1 departures a day.
Osaka is one hour ahead of Tianjin all year.
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 KIX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSN to KIX | 0.14 | 1 | Tianjin Airlines |
| KIX to TSN | 0.14 | 1 | Tianjin Airlines |
One carrier holds the sector, Tianjin Airlines, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 2 departures a week on TSN to KIX, 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 2h 38m block time on TSN to KIX. 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 KIX in the air, estimated | 158 min | 7h 08m |
| Formalities at KIX | 90 min | 8h 38m |
| Delivery run in Osaka | 45 min | 9h 23m |
| Door to door | 563 min | 9h 23m |
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 KIX is 9h 23m.
A courier who leaves Tianjin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Osaka at about 12:38 local and at the door by 14:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Osaka, the last useful departure from Tianjin is around 12:07 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. 9 of them join TSN to KIX.
| Connecting at | TSN to hub, flights a day | Hub to KIX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul ICN | 5.71 | 41.29 | 1,675 | 4h 23m |
| Shanghai PVG | 2.71 | 15 | 2,282 | 5h 25m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 6.35 | 1.43 | 2,494 | 5h 26m |
| Tokyo NRT | 1.14 | 5.71 | 2,553 | 5h 36m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 13.43 | 1.43 | 4,246 | 7h 40m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 7 | 1 | 4,325 | 7h 47m |
9 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seoul ICN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5.7 times a day.
Through ICN the routing covers 1,675 km against the 1,674 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 23m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 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, Shanghai PVG at 5h 25m and Hangzhou HGH at 5h 26m 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.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 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 KIX. 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 Osaka 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 KIX 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 TSN airport entry
- The KIX airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The route calculator
More pairs through TSN and KIX: Osaka to Seoul, Osaka to Taipei, Osaka to Hong Kong, Osaka to Shanghai, Singapore to Osaka, Osaka to Tokyo, Bangkok to Osaka, San Francisco to Osaka.