The sector is held by Tianjin Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
TSN Tianjin to HND Tokyo
Tianjin Binhai, China, to Tokyo Haneda, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,017 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 05m
- Door to door
- 9h 50m
What TSN to HND looks like
The TSN to HND sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tianjin TSN to Tokyo HND is a medium haul sector of 2,017 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,017 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 05m.
Tianjin TSN is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 79 scheduled destinations and 183.7 departures a day. Tokyo HND has 105 destinations and 738.1 departures a day.
Tokyo carries about 4 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.
Tokyo 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 HND from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSN to HND | 0.14 | 1 | Tianjin Airlines |
| HND to TSN | 0.29 | 2 | 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.
The two directions are not level: TSN to HND runs about once a week, the return runs 2 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
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 3 departures a week on TSN to HND, 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 05m block time on TSN to HND. 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 HND in the air, estimated | 185 min | 7h 35m |
| Formalities at HND | 90 min | 9h 05m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 9h 50m |
| Door to door | 590 min | 9h 50m |
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 HND is 9h 50m.
A courier who leaves Tianjin at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 13:05 local and at the door by 15:20 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, the last useful departure from Tianjin is around 11:40 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 HND.
| Connecting at | TSN to hub, flights a day | Hub to HND, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul ICN | 5.71 | 1.14 | 2,024 | 4h 50m |
| Shanghai SHA | 5.71 | 4.57 | 2,730 | 5h 29m |
| Shanghai PVG | 2.71 | 6.86 | 2,712 | 5h 58m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 13.43 | 2.29 | 4,676 | 8h 13m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 7 | 1.14 | 4,753 | 8h 19m |
| Singapore SIN | 0.57 | 8.86 | 9,714 | 13h 57m |
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 about once a day.
Through ICN the routing covers 2,024 km against the 2,017 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 50m 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 SHA at 5h 29m and Shanghai PVG at 5h 58m 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 Tokyo, Tokyo NRT is 60 km away by great circle and carries 117 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.
Tokyo HND, night operations: Operates around the clock; the preferred Tokyo gate for a late departure.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through TSN or HND. 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 Tokyo 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 HND 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 HND airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Japan
- The route calculator
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