MU9191 SHA → PEK

MU9191 distance and great-circle path

MU9191 covers 1,076 km, or 668 miles. That makes it a short-haul flight, a single-aisle hop where turnaround time matters more than range. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 224 by distance.

The plane leaves Shanghai heading north. On the map above, the line looks curved. That is normal. The shortest path over a round planet never looks straight on a flat screen. Our guide explains how the SHA–PEK route appears on a tracker map.

Why MU9191 block time differs from cruise time

The schedule allows 2.2 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 478 km/h. A COMAC C919 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.

Winds aloft shift the real flight time by up to an hour in either direction. See what really moves flight times.

What to know about MU9191

• Time change: none. Both cities keep the same clock, so arrival time reads exactly as you expect.

We track 2 scheduled services between Shanghai and Beijing, all of them China Eastern Airlines. Among them, it is the first departure of the day on this route; it is scheduled quicker than anything else on the pairing; it is the only one flown with a COMAC C919.

Measured against MU9191, which pushes back at 07:00:

• MU5101 (China Eastern Airlines) leaves 1 hour later and is scheduled 5 minutes slower, on an Airbus A350-900.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.