The sector is held by Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Okay Airways, Tianjin Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
XIY Xian to TSN Tianjin
Xi'an Xianyang, China, to Tianjin Binhai, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 9.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 925 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 41m
- Door to door
- 8h 26m
What XIY to TSN looks like
The XIY to TSN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Xian XIY to Tianjin TSN is a short sector of 925 km by great circle, flown nonstop 9.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 925 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 41m.
Xian XIY is a large airport in the network held here, 147 scheduled destinations and 533.4 departures a day. Tianjin TSN has 79 destinations and 183.7 departures a day.
Xian carries about 2.9 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.
Xian and Tianjin 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 XIY to TSN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| XIY to TSN | 9.86 | 69 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Okay Airways, Tianjin Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
| TSN to XIY | 7.29 | 51 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Okay Airways, Tianjin Airlines, Xiamen Airlines |
5 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: XIY to TSN runs 9.9 times a day, the return runs 7.3 times a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 9.9 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 120 departures a week on XIY to TSN, 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 1h 41m block time on XIY to TSN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to XIY | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At XIY before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| XIY to TSN in the air, estimated | 101 min | 6h 11m |
| Formalities at TSN | 90 min | 7h 41m |
| Delivery run in Tianjin | 45 min | 8h 26m |
| Door to door | 506 min | 8h 26m |
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 XIY to TSN is 8h 26m.
A courier who leaves Xian at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tianjin at about 10:41 local and at the door by 12:56 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tianjin, the last useful departure from Xian is around 14:04 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 XIY to TSN.
| Connecting at | XIY to hub, flights a day | Hub to TSN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai SHA | 19.57 | 9 | 2,182 | 4h 47m |
| Changsha CSX | 13.71 | 6.29 | 2,089 | 4h 55m |
| Chongqing CKG | 4.57 | 8.14 | 1,994 | 4h 55m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 18.12 | 4.72 | 2,220 | 5h 05m |
| Chengdu TFU | 1.43 | 8 | 2,143 | 5h 06m |
| Seoul ICN | 2.58 | 6 | 2,440 | 5h 22m |
With 9.9 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 Shanghai SHA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 9 times a day.
Through SHA the routing covers 2,182 km against the 925 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 47m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 3h 06m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Changsha CSX at 4h 55m and Chongqing CKG at 4h 55m 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 XIY or TSN. 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 Xian to Tianjin 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 XIY to TSN 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.
More pairs through XIY and TSN: Seoul to Tianjin, Guangzhou to Tianjin, Shenzhen to Tianjin, Shanghai to Tianjin, Singapore to Tianjin, Tokyo to Tianjin, Nagoya to Tianjin, Tianjin to Hong Kong.