Sichuan Airlines (3U) flights & route network
380 routes · 83 destinations · 5 hub airports across 9 countrys.
Figures computed from the public OpenFlights datasetData source: OpenFlights routes.dat
Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan, with a population of 20,937,757 .
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Sichuan Airlines hub airports
Airports ranked by the number of Sichuan Airlines routes originating from each IATA code. A higher count indicates a stronger hub — more nonstop destinations available from that airport.
Routes operated by 3U
Showing the 50 longest Sichuan Airlines routes parsed from the OpenFlights routes dataset. Click any route for live fare comparison.
3U route network
Every figure below is computed live from the OpenFlights routes dataset at the time of page render. No prices, no fabricated carrier names — only the airline codes stored verbatim in thedirectCarriersJSON field on each FlightRoute row.
All countries served by 3U
Ranked by the number of Sichuan Airlines routes arriving in each destination country. The leading market is where the airline concentrates most of its international capacity.
About flying with Sichuan Airlines
Sichuan Airlines (3U) operates 380 scheduled flight routes parsed from the OpenFlights public routes dataset.
From its primary hub at CTU (Chengdu, China) the airline flies 53 nonstop routes, with 4 additional airports serving as regional connection points across the network.
The longest nonstop route operated by Sichuan Airlines is Chengdu (CTU) to Melbourne (MEL), covering 5,404 great-circle miles and averaging about 45m of flight time. Its shortest scheduled route — Chengdu (CTU) to Jiuzhaigou (JZH) — covers just 158 miles.
Across the full network, Sichuan Airlines serves 9 countrys; the most-served destination market is China with 365 inbound routes.
How to find the best Sichuan Airlines fares
Booking out of CTU is usually the strongest fare play: Sichuan Airlines concentrates 53 of its routess from Chengdu, and higher route density at a hub means more head-to-head competition — both from other Sichuan Airlines departures and from rival carriers serving overlapping city pairs. Use the Kayak search box above with origin set to CTU to see the airline's full departure board at a glance.
All route, hub, destination and country figures are computed directly from the OpenFlights public-domain routes dataset(openflights.org/data.php)— specifically the directCarriers JSON field on every FlightRoute row, where each airline code (e.g. 3U) is parsed from the OpenFlightsroutes.dat airline identifier column. Carrier names come from the companion OpenFlights airlines.dat dataset. No prices or fare estimates appear on this page — those values fluctuate continuously across 100+ booking sites and are fetched live via Kayak at search time.