Routes from Nanjing and Wuhan to Jakarta
New service from the Kazakh capital to Ulaanbaatar
Routes from Nanjing and Wuhan to Jakarta
New service from the Kazakh capital to Ulaanbaatar
April 1st, 2026. Xiamen Airlines has two new services to Jakarta lined up. A route from Nanjing will take off on April 11th, and another from Wuhan will hit the runway a day later, on the 12th.
Flight number MF8693 will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, departing from Lukou International Airport, Nanjing at 16:25. It will arrive at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 21:50. The return leg, flight number MF8694, leaves Jakarta at 06:50 and arrives in Nanjing at 14:25.
A Boeing 737-800 aircraft will serve the route, and the journey time will be about six and a half hours in each direction.
The service from Wuhan will operate four times a week on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Flight number MF8683 will depart from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 16:40 and arrive in Jakarta at 21:50. The return journey, flight number MF8684, will leave Jakarta at 06:50 and land back in Wuhan at 14:10
The flight time will be a little over six hours each way and will be served by Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Astana to Ulaanbaatar
Kazakhstan’s Scat Airlines will launch a new service between Astana and Ulaanbaatar, in Mongolia, on June 2nd. The flight will operate twice a week, departing on Tuesdays and Fridays with a different time slot on each day.
On Tuesdays, flight number DV799 will depart from Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport at 23:40 and arrive at Chinggis Khaan International Airport, Ulaanbaatar, at 06:15 the following morning. The return trip, flight number DV800, leaves Ulaanbaatar at 07:30 on Wednesdays and lands back in Astana at 09:00.
On Fridays, DV799 leaves Astana at 21:10 and arrives in Ulaanbaatar at 03:30 the next morning. DV800 departs again at 04:30 on Saturdays and lands back in Astana at 06:00.
A Boeing 737-800 aircraft will serve the route, and the flight time will be approximately three and a half hours for the outbound flight, and an hour longer for the return.
I couldn’t get either of the airline’s websites to load at the time of writing, but Skyscanner is listing several booking agents for each flight.
Picture: Taman Fatahilla, the historic centre of old Batavia at the heart of Jakarta’s old town. ©David Sutton/themangoroad.com
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