The sector is held by Beijing Capital Airlines and Tianjin Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TSN Tianjin to SYX Sanya
Tianjin Binhai, China, to Sanya Phoenix, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,438 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 37m
- Door to door
- 10h 22m
What TSN to SYX looks like
The TSN to SYX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tianjin TSN to Sanya SYX is a medium haul sector of 2,438 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,438 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 37m.
Tianjin TSN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 79 scheduled destinations and 183.7 departures a day. Sanya SYX has 76 destinations and 172.1 departures a day.
Tianjin and Sanya 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 SYX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSN to SYX | 0.86 | 6 | Beijing Capital Airlines |
| SYX to TSN | 1 | 7 | Beijing Capital Airlines, Tianjin Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, Beijing Capital Airlines and Tianjin Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 13 departures a week on TSN to SYX, 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 37m block time on TSN to SYX. 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 SYX in the air, estimated | 217 min | 8h 07m |
| Formalities at SYX | 90 min | 9h 37m |
| Delivery run in Sanya | 45 min | 10h 22m |
| Door to door | 622 min | 10h 22m |
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 SYX is 10h 22m.
A courier who leaves Tianjin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Sanya at about 12:37 local and at the door by 14:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Sanya, the last useful departure from Tianjin is around 12:08 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. 17 of them join TSN to SYX.
| Connecting at | TSN to hub, flights a day | Hub to SYX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanning NNG | 2.29 | 2.44 | 2,528 | 5h 20m |
| Changsha CSX | 5.86 | 7.7 | 2,440 | 5h 22m |
| Wuhan WUH | 5.86 | 8.86 | 2,440 | 5h 22m |
| Xiamen XMN | 4.57 | 2.14 | 2,761 | 5h 31m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 13.43 | 10.57 | 2,486 | 5h 33m |
| Shanghai SHA | 5.71 | 6.71 | 2,822 | 5h 36m |
17 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nanning NNG, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through NNG the routing covers 2,528 km against the 2,438 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 20m 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, Changsha CSX at 5h 22m and Wuhan WUH at 5h 22m 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 Sanya, Haikou HAK is 212 km away by great circle and carries 105 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 SYX. 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 Sanya 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 SYX 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.
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More pairs through TSN and SYX: Sanya to Shenzhen, Almaty to Sanya, Sanya to Chengdu, Hangzhou to Sanya, Xian to Sanya, Sanya to Beijing, Sanya to Changsha, Wuhan to Sanya.