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Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours

London
London2 stops£412
Manchester
Manchester1 stop£702
London
London2 stops£412
Manchester
Manchester1 stop£702

Cheap Flight Deals from Colombo to the United Kingdom (CMB-GB0)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Colombo to the United Kingdom that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.

Recent return flight deals from Colombo to the United Kingdom

Recommended return flight deals departing in the coming months from the most popular airlines that fly from Colombo to the United Kingdom.
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16:30 - 22:05CMB-STN
34h 05m2 stops
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06:00 - 03:05STN-CMB
40h 35m3 stops
Sun, 18 May - Wed, 21 May
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16:30 - 22:05CMB-STN
34h 05m2 stops
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17:55 - 14:20STN-CMB
15h 55m2 stops
Sun, 18 May - Wed, 21 May
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20:20 - 06:40CMB-LGW
14h 50m1 stop
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09:00 - 02:05LGW-CMB
12h 35m1 stop
£513Qatar Airways
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Sun, 18 May - Wed, 21 May
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03:35 - 13:25CMB-LGW
14h 20m1 stop
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09:00 - 02:05LGW-CMB
12h 35m1 stop
£541Qatar Airways
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Sat, 17 May - Wed, 21 May
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04:05 - 12:45CMB-LHR
13h 10m1 stop
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09:30 - 02:50LHR-CMB
12h 50m1 stop
£556Etihad Airways
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Fri, 6 Jun - Wed, 18 Jun
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04:05 - 07:00CMB-LHR
31h 25m1 stop
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21:45 - 20:40LHR-CMB
18h 25m1 stop
£565Etihad Airways
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Wed, 4 Jun - Wed, 18 Jun
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20:35 - 18:45CMB-STN
26h 40m2 stops
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21:10 - 18:30STN-CMB
16h 50m2 stops
£596Emirates
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Thu, 5 Jun - Wed, 18 Jun
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02:55 - 12:35CMB-LGW
14h 10m1 stop
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21:45 - 18:30LGW-CMB
16h 15m2 stops
£600Emirates
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Thu, 5 Jun - Fri, 20 Jun
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13:05 - 20:00CMB-LHR
11h 25mdirect
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21:30 - 12:45LHR-CMB
10h 45mdirect
£666SriLankan Airlines
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Fri, 6 Jun - Sat, 6 Sep
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13:05 - 20:00CMB-LHR
11h 25mdirect
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21:30 - 12:45LHR-CMB
10h 45mdirect
£694SriLankan Airlines
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Sat, 24 May - Sun, 8 Jun
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Colombo to the United Kingdom flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Colombo to the United Kingdom to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom flight route?

The cheapest price for flight routes found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom.
The cheapest ticket to the United Kingdom from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport found in the last 72 hours was to London, at £700 return. The most popular route is from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport (CMB) to London Heathrow Airport (LHR), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was £700.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to the United Kingdom?

The average price for all round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to the United Kingdom is generally in the evening, when retur flights cost £896 on average. Morning departures are around 60% more expensive than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to the United Kingdom is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is £1,437.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom is November, when tickets cost £570 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are August and April, when the average cost of return tickets is £795 and £794 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Colombo to United Kingdom?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If you are looking for a flight deal from Colombo to United Kingdom, look for departures on Tuesdays and avoid leaving on a Thursday, as it's usually the priciest day. When flying back from United Kingdom, Tuesday is the cheapest day to fly and Friday is the most expensive.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.
To get a below-average price on the flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to the United Kingdom, you should book around 3 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 18 weeks before departure.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Colombo to United Kingdom

Low season

March

High season

April

Cheapest flight

£169
Best time to beat the crowds (7% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (3% more expensive on average)
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FAQs - booking United Kingdom flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Colombo to United Kingdom?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Colombo to United Kingdom.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Colombo to United Kingdom?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Colombo to United Kingdom is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Colombo to United Kingdom?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly from Colombo to United Kingdom with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Colombo to United Kingdom?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from Colombo to United Kingdom up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Top tips for finding a cheap flight from Colombo to United Kingdom

  • Looking for a cheap flight from Colombo to United Kingdom? 25% of our users found tickets from Colombo to United Kingdom for the following prices or less: London £385 one-way - £862 round-trip

Top 5 airlines serving from Colombo to the United Kingdom

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Colombo to the United Kingdom? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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EmiratesOverall score based on 3213 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.3Crew
8.2Entertainment
8.1Boarding
7.8Food
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Over - amazing. The aircraft is somewhat old on this route.

10.0 ExcellentAvidan, Mar 2025DXB - NBO
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Over - amazing. The aircraft is somewhat old on this route.

Excellent comfort and entertainment. Service poor..Food average with little choice.

Good food, real silverware, polite staff, smooth landing, charging plugs, good entertainment options.

Comfort and customer service from most if the crew was great. The crew reassigning passengers should consider the presence of infants when reassigning seats. Unfortunately a couple of oversized passengers were relocated next to us, making this segment a bit uncomfortable, as there was not only extra leg space required. I ended up swapping seats with my husband so our baby wouldn't be impacted. My husband travelled quite uncomfortable as the reassigned neighbour shoulder and arm ended up on my husband's seat

The service was excellent. We flew coach on this leg of our trip and it was still very pleasant.

We had to deboard using stairs. Why didnt you have the aero-bridge?

The ground staff on Islamabad is horrible. The on board services are excellent.

Boarding was a mess, no one managing the queues. I got my meal as the pilot announced starting commencing descent and basic drink not available. No air bridge so takes forever to deplane the A380 onto buses.

The staff were very friendly and helpful. The seats were very comfortable and spacious. The entertainment was amazing, and so was the food!

When you buy Emirates you don’t expect low cost. Choice of coffee/tea vs water. Entertainment on demand. Seat distance won’t allow food tray to extend without hitting belly (and I didn’t grow lately)

The Achilles heel of the experience with Qatar Airways is the Doha Airport, especially for travellers arriving into Doha and not transiting. This airport suffers from being ambitiously big and the immigration into Qatar being overly time taking. At the end of my particular flight in which my travel was ending in Doha, the plane parked at a very remote terminal, from where it took me 30 minutes to arrive just at the immigration counter, with fast paced walking and the time on a train inside the airport. Then, at the immigration counter it takes up to a minute or more to process each tourist visitor,due to time taking face and finger scanning processes and langugage barriers if there are questions or information to be exchanged verbally with the officers. If several planes have landed at the same time, it is not unusual that one has to wait 45 to 60 minutes in the immigration queue. In short, the frustration of arriving at Doha takes away all positive vibe of the airline, as the airline and the airport are heavily intertwined and are marketed together.

Seats very small and unable to pre purchase internet or seat upgrades

They didn't board by zones and it was a free for all. The 16 hour flight was the most excruciating experience of my life and the seats were TINY... with no leg space and my feet were swollen immediately. The food was so bad it was inedible.

Qatar Airways in-flight first/business class service is superior to any US airline; excellent meals are served on short haul flights such as between DXB and DOH.

Boston to Doha was great but Doha to Dhaka was the worst experience.

Between Air India and Qatar my luggage was lost for three days. I eventually found my own luggage location using the Apple Air Tag. Air India used a paper form to report my lost luggage. I could never get past getting past luggage personnel with my report number before they would hang up on me. Only after them specifically telling Air India at Chandigarh airport where my luggage was located which was right under their noses did they react. After three days I finally received my luggage. The Air India luggage folks didn’t seem proactive in finding the luggage’s rightful owner.

Food was good, attendants were friendly. Seats were not comfortable. Did not receive any amenities such as eyemask or earplugs that would have helped sleep. Additionally a large group of passengers boarded very late into boarding and were a disruption for almost the whole flight. Flight attendants did their best but the kids were making so much noise, kicking seats, and half the time no adult was sat with them so they weren’t being managed.

Good staff, good intent, decent entertainment. More seat space would always be of benefit

Just happy I flew Qatar Airways awesome no wonder they are #1 in the world right now! The food was just delicious, very courteous, professional crew.

Not good. Expected a lot more as far as excellence.

Etihad seems to have a very strict luggage enforcement. I am a very light passenger compared to other passengers which are mainly heavier. I do not understood why airlines enforce the weight restriction so strictly. I was overweight luggage of 1.5kg, but am probably 10+kg lighter than the average passenger. Other airlines are far more accommodating. Poor customer service as far as I am concerned. If weight is such an important issue to an airline they should charge passengers by total amount of body weight plus luggage. To me just ridiculous.

Horrible. After paying for my seats, I was cramped, had no overhead bin space, freezing as the flight had no temperature controls, the food was awful and served cold, when asked for snacks was told to wait and then never received any. I booked this flight as a partner through American Airlines but will avoid in the future.

Took a long time for boarding. The flight was comfortable.

Flight was delayed due to slow boarding process by etihad. Update food options and movies as well.

Extremely bad food, they never gave our bags in time, the online check-in did not let us check in because we had Indian OCI not sure why we were given the option to check in then, because we couldn’t check in online we had to go in person and we were not able to change our seats and sit with our family

Should have had business class line in immigration. Food quality suboptimal

we were delayed from Athens to Abu Dhabi by an hour and a half, so I had trouble connecting the flight from there to Bali. It could have been done had they waited even 15 mins. There was another lady who was in the same boat. By the time we were half way across the terminal, they have actually already issued different flights for us to go Jakarta then to Bali. Not to mention the inconvenience of waiting over 4 hrs at the airport and the subsequent inconvenience, we did not arrive to Bali till after 800pm the next day, which means I paid for the hotel for nothing when I could have been there before noon the next day! There was little explanation. It was just as well I needed some assistance getting around, otherwise the 2 of us would have been completely lost! Not going to fly with them again!

The flight take time was changed 23 times. The system kept sending messages it will be earlier at 4am and eventually the flight was at 9am I didn’t sleep all night because of that

This flight was a dreamliner so I think the space was ok for the legs, but the option for food was again limited and the crew was same.

Needs better seat for business class. My seat was falling apart. Also no WiFi on that flight

From the checking, ground handlimg was very poor.seems new personal on duty,people qho suppose to be teaching them didnt see around.new people may mislead passenger, as of flt info boards, not give proper info.even informatiin counter people dont get uptodate info.makin big ques, totally disaster.guests were not happy about it.even boarding to aircraft some BC class pax sent to aft staircase, some aft pasx sent to front door.poor ground handling.may need to improove.

Nice crew.flight delay fromBKK for some ground prep issue I guess, crew serve well to guest, and respect to guest as well. As usual AC is old,and nt much comert in compare to other rehional airliners.other than that.all good

All good, on time, depart.only bad side was, airxraft is too old to be in business.hope ailine will manage somethinv somewhat.all good

Flight was on time.food is as usual good.Aircraft is old.old A320, seats aithout any display.crew serve well

Was good, comparatively. A330, with good crew set.on time depature. And crew try there best, to make thing efficient.

Spesific ,Crew and cabin manager, look after all pax on board despite being in a old A320 equipment.Got free seat upgrade as well,but old style seats, no much comfert on it.But food and the spesific crew, was amazing.maintain airlanka standerd.the cabin manager, who was so much keen,keen operate as per SOP.

Was got free upgrade, on old A320.aircraft is out dated kind of.bt service ,cabin manager, tried there best.and food was excelent.

When flying from Indian Sector, should be more prepared with Indian food

KAYAK Real time status update is not accurate.the flight inbound rejected and go around.and came back and land. Delay abt 30 min.still shows ontime.track ur self if u wana real time.and cabin crew s are nicer. Aircraft is jst ok.old airplane.and in midflight ,seems have some compressor issue.airconditioning was nt work properly either.I could litarary see guests were cheking if AC is working.bt on landing it start to gv cool.which probably some one intentionaly kept .which was so bad.even breathing was bit difficult.otjer than that.for me all ok.

This leg of the trip was smoother than compared to the initial trip. Sri Lankan Airlines still have much work to do to improve the overall travel experience.

Boarding was delayed and we had to get on buses to plane so group # didn't matter. No food or drinks served gratis. Seats were small, knees smashed into the seat ahead, didn't recline. Crew was excellent though.

The flight from Seattle was delayed, which made me miss my connection to Florence. I was re-booked NINE HOURS LATER!!! That’s basically a vacation day lost. British Airways needs to partner with other airlines when possible to get a more realistic travel time, if delays occur. I realize there aren’t many flights to Florence from London, so I would book differently were I to return. The actual flight from Seattle was very comfortable and the crew was great, no faults there. I enjoy British Airways, this was an anomaly.

Our original booking with Kayak -our first experience -was exactly what we wanted and worked well. Updates were friendly and reassuring as were the contacts with UnderPricer so a big win-win. We learned a lot on your reliability and will definitely put you on our organisational list for the future.

The crew could not have been more helpful, my meal was excellent, I slept peacefully until right before landing, and the BA lounge was a godsend. The only negative I encountered was the coffee both on the plane and in the lounge. Not to my taste but that’s a personal preference.

Plane and seats ok. Dinners going and coming back were not fantastic. Breakfast from Seattle to London fine with bagel, cheese and fried egg. Second meal on London to Seattle not my favorite of kind of pizza sauce in a pastry. Came with water about three different times on each of my long flights. Staff on all very friendly and helpful.

I don’t understand why a reputable airline like BA would delegate their London flights to AA. Makes no sense to me, as most domestic carriers do such a poor job these days. Terminal 3 at LHR is a total dump

We ordered kids meals - which were not kid friendly at all! (the breakfast that is - scrambled eggs on a bed of spinach and asparagus?)

Uncomfortable seats. Crazy seat assignments separating families when they could easily have put them together. Good communication from pilot about arrival time after delay in departure. Toilet ran out of water in sink. Snack box poor for flight of this length.

The bed in Club class was not very comfortable, everything else was good.

Cancelled flight minutes before boarding. Rescheduled flight was two days later

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