Direct flights from Shanghai (PVG) to Rome (FCO): 7 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. 100% of the last 7 tracked flights arrived within 15 minutes of schedule. The median arrival is 29 minutes early. No cancellations were recorded across the 8 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 9,170 km, an estimated 12 hours 15 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at Shanghai and Rome. Updated 30 October 2026 at 14:33 UTC.
Left PVG at 13:04, 24 min after its 12:40 slot.
Landing estimate from 58,787 tracked flights of 8 hours or longer that left 15 to 29 min late. The FCO board has not posted a landing time yet. How planes make up time
Track MU787 →Checked PVG board 22:08 · FCO board 15:33
of the last 7 tracked PVG → FCO flights arrived within 15 minutes
Median arrival delay is −29 min. 0 of 8 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Each mark is a scheduled departure at its origin-local time, observed operating in the last 7 days. Today is highlighted.
Flights MU787 12:25 daily
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
Conditions are tightest at FCO: a 35% chance of a 15+ minute delay. In this weather, the more delayed of the two airports is typically about +8 min. Both figures come from the two airports' delay records in similar weather. See live delays → · Weather risk by airport →
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop PVG to FCO flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: Shanghai (PVG) to Rome (FCO) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at PVG is the weaker end, route health score 83/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 9,170 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 677–816 min gate-to-gate on this route.
China Eastern Airlines runs the route with about 7 flights a week (daily). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at PVG and arrival-side delay at FCO, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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