Route · SZX → TNA
Flights from Shenzhen to Jinan
Spanning roughly 1,615 kilometres between the Pearl River Delta tech hub and Shandong's provincial capital, this domestic trunk route covers the distance in a typical block time of around two hours and twenty minutes, making it a comfortable same-day business connection between southern and northern China. The four tracked carriers — Air China, China Southern, Shandong Airlines, and Shenzhen Airlines — collectively maintain a reasonably frequent schedule, with narrowbodies such as the Boeing 737 family and Airbus A320 series handling the bulk of rotations. Practically speaking, travellers arriving into Jinan Yaoqiang International should allow extra time if continuing onward by rail, as the airport sits roughly thirty kilometres from the city centre and expressway congestion during peak hours can be unpredictable. Fares tend to dip most noticeably outside Golden Week and Spring Festival windows, and midweek departures on Tuesday or Wednesday typically offer the most availability at lower price points.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Shenzhen (SZX) → Jinan (TNA). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
4 carriersThe 4 carriers we currently track on the Shenzhen–Jinan route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Shenzhen to Jinan
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Shenzhen to Jinan — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at SZX and… TNA, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.