£272 Find Cheap Flights from Shanghai to the United Kingdom

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Cheap Flights from Shanghai to the United Kingdom

Cheapest return prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
London
London1 stop£626
Manchester
Manchester1 stop£597
Birmingham
Birmingham1 stop£734
Belfast
Belfast2 stops£852
Liverpool
Liverpool2 stops£1,029
London
London1 stop£626
Manchester
Manchester1 stop£597
Birmingham
Birmingham1 stop£734
Belfast
Belfast2 stops£852
Liverpool
Liverpool2 stops£1,029

Book Cheap Shanghai to the United Kingdom Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Shanghai 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent return flight deals from Shanghai to the United Kingdom

Fri, 26 Jun - Wed, 8 Jul
Emirates Logo
07:20 - 16:10
PVG
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LHR
39h 50m
1 stop
Emirates Logo
16:50 - 22:20
LHR
-
PVG
22h 30m
1 stop
£626Emirates
Wed, 9 Sep - Wed, 16 Sep
AirAsia X Logo
06:00 - 07:30
PVG
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LGW
32h 30m
2 stops
AirAsia X Logo
10:25 - 00:20
LGW
-
PVG
30h 55m
2 stops
£626AirAsia X
Thu, 11 Jun - Tue, 16 Jun
Qatar Airways Logo
00:35 - 07:45
PVG
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LGW
38h 10m
1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
14:55 - 16:20
LGW
-
PVG
18h 25m
1 stop
£627Qatar Airways
Mon, 1 Jun - Tue, 9 Jun
Multiple Airlines Logo
00:35 - 18:00
PVG
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LHR
24h 25m
1 stop
Multiple Airlines Logo
06:40 - 12:55
LHR
-
PVG
23h 15m
2 stops
£627Multiple Airlines
Sun, 31 May - Sun, 7 Jun
Multiple Airlines Logo
15:55 - 19:55
PVG
-
LTN
35h 00m
2 stops
Multiple Airlines Logo
19:30 - 00:20
LTN
-
PVG
45h 50m
3 stops
£627Multiple Airlines
Fri, 26 Jun - Tue, 7 Jul
Qatar Airways Logo
18:40 - 14:10
PVG
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LHR
26h 30m
1 stop
Qatar Airways Logo
08:25 - 16:20
LHR
-
PVG
24h 55m
1 stop
£630Qatar Airways
Tue, 7 Jul - Thu, 10 Sep
KLM Logo
11:15 - 07:15
PVG
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LCY
27h 00m
1 stop
KLM Logo
08:25 - 09:25
LCY
-
PVG
18h 00m
1 stop
£639KLM
Wed, 6 May - Wed, 13 May
Air China Logo
22:30 - 06:35
SHA
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LGW
15h 05m
1 stop
Air China Logo
12:35 - 12:40
LGW
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SHA
17h 05m
1 stop
£703Air China
Mon, 22 Jun - Thu, 2 Jul
KLM Logo
11:15 - 07:55
PVG
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LCY
27h 40m
1 stop
KLM Logo
09:20 - 09:25
LCY
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PVG
17h 05m
1 stop
£704KLM
Wed, 27 May - Wed, 3 Jun
Air China Logo
21:30 - 06:35
SHA
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LGW
16h 05m
1 stop
Air China Logo
12:35 - 12:40
LGW
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SHA
17h 05m
1 stop
£745Air China
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Shanghai to the United Kingdom flights

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

What is the cheapest Shanghai to the United Kingdom flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest ticket to the United Kingdom from Shanghai found in the last 72 hours was to Manchester, at £351 return. The most popular route is from Shanghai Pu Dong Airport (PVG) to London Gatwick Airport (LGW), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was £628.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai to the United Kingdom is May, when tickets cost £469 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are October and September, when the average cost of return tickets is £909 and £835 respectively.

Good to know - Cheap tickets from Shanghai to the United Kingdom

Cheapest flight£272
Flight from Shanghai Pudong Airport to London Heathrow Airport

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Reviews of the top 3 airlines flying from Shanghai to the United Kingdom

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Shanghai 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.
7.3
Air ChinaOverall score based on 146 reviews
8.0Crew
7.1Comfort
6.4Entertainment
7.1Food
7.7Boarding
Airline reviews

The meals were not the greatest and lacking of appetite but everything else was spot on

8.0 ExcellentJeff, Apr 2026
PVG - YVR
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The meals were not the greatest and lacking of appetite but everything else was spot on

Overall, excellent: check-in, boarding, service, and food. The Business Class seating is a little less private and spacious than the world's premier airlines, but still very good for a long haul flight.

On time. Friendly and helpful flight attendants. The plane was clean. Having a wine available would have been nice.

Your staff was exceptional. Could teach the other airlines-rules on etiquette, and service. Excellent landings on flights, carried out by your pilots. Only complaint is long delay on return flight in Beijing, onto Vancouver.

Worst than I expected, crew was not attentive, meal was as disgusting , they didn’t even drink selections as they would to other passengers. I felt discriminated

cannot get seat information for LAX to IAH when check in in XI,AN

UA is ok. But check in was a very bad experience

I hate that you cannot check in online and when you are at the airport, there aren't any aisle seats left. Also, they could work a little on subtitles for their movies (not everyone is a native English speaker).

Nothing to complain of, the only reason I am not giving better marks is that I am used to flying with ANA and they are the top.

It's terrible that we can't do online check in because we didn't buy the tickets directly from Air china. It was not explained until I contacted Chatdeal and we could not sit together.

I was traveling alone with an infant, so the crew was incredibly helpful. Both the international and subsequent domestic flights were impeccable.

Plane was good. But food was bad and air host was so rude. I will never fly with China Eastern again

The flight was delayed by 2 hours, although to their credit they delayed my connecting flight so people could reach it. Also their site is a nightmare to navigate on a phone. Everything else was good.

The ticket was last minute buy so no concerns about the pricing this time, but the crew in general could have been more accommodating, helpful.

CTU-KMG-CNX with 1.5 hr connection at KMG. Doable but just barely bc immigration exit from China is at the last flight leg, here: KMG to CNX. We hauled out of the domestic terminal to reenter at the international departures (luggage checked thru to CNX thankfully). Immigration had only two agents, even though KMG gets a HUGE number of foreigners. It took forever for such a shot line. Then security also took a while, so I just just made the connection. Recommend if you exit China with domestic international transfer, plan for 2+ hrs to avoid a heart attack. Airline personnel don’t suffer if you miss the flight, you do. Plan accordingly.

China Eastern as a member of Sky Alliance airlines should have the same standards overall of their partners, Besides the seats comforts everything else is bellow the standard for a business class travelers. A BIG ISSUE FOR NON-CHINESE PASSENGERS IS THE ABILITY TO CHECK IN ONLINE, by making so difficult or almost impossible there is no chance to get a seat assignment ahead of time then go to the airport and get what is left. THIS IS NOT a SKY TEAM modality.

China Eastern as a member of Sky Alliance airlines should have the same standards overall of their partners, Besides the seats comforts everything else is bellow the standard for a business class travelers.

2 parts to the journey. First leg covered in a newer plane with decent staff + POOR FOOD QUALITY but the second half didn’t leave a positive impression at all as the plane itself was an older built and the crew didn’t serve properly. Language is an issue with China Eastern flights as always, but unmotivated crew just makes it even bad.

Small plane with only two lavatories at the back. You must have a good plan to use it before or after the meal, if you make a bad decision, you will end up with standing in front of the toilet for a while till the food carts empty. The good thing is even there’s a slightly delayed, the plane is still arriving on time which is superb!!

The only personel that smiled at all were the flights attendants. Desk agents, lounge people none of them had a smile or even a hello. They were like dealing with dead fish. Again flight attendants were good. All other personnel looked like they didn’t want to be there or help.

I’ve never been on a trans-Atlantic (or Pacific) flight where the seats don’t recline—not even a little. I asked my seat mate when BA starting doing this and he said “Oh, a few years ago.” I couldn’t sleep, with my head falling forward waking me continuously, and came off the plane incredibly stiff. I booked a Premium Economy seat to get a more comfortable seat, which was worse than most basic Economy seats I’ve ever booked.

Nice aircraft. Good crew. Delayed departure from Houston, but arrived on time in London. Main thing I don’t like about flying BA is having to transit through security in London Heathrow. A major pain!

Was upgraded to business class on this flight, I presume due to my premium economy class for my London to Denver flight. Business class was the same seats as economy, only the middle seat was unfilled. Decent lunch served, and the lounge experience in Prague was good. The only heads up I would give is give yourself enough time for gate carry-on luggage scanning, which I did not anticipate in my time planning.

Overall good, bigger chairs in the future would be nice.

I loved the food choices and the attentiveness of the crew but boarding was chaotic.

Great flight, last one out the air-conditioning was far to hot and the return it was to cold and then issued blankets. On the outward bowned the headset connector didn't work properly. You had intermittent sound from the audio socket.

My experience with British Airways was fine and dandy. Nothing truly negative to report. However, I was. asked to check my carryon bag all the way through to my desitination which prompted some huge problems. Thank goodness I kept a foldable-personal-item-bag in my carryon. I was asked to remove my valuable electronic belongings from my personal item bag, which was a camera bag full of expensive lenses and camera equipment, into another bag for the flight because it was "too big". Farbeit from me for asking further questions, but the bag was let through when I departed to Paris from America with no problems at all as I was able to explain that it was slightly oversized due to being a camera bag with a layer of protective foam which made it slightly larger. Still, this bag could and did fit perfectly under my airplain seat during my departure from America. On the flight back though, this was not the case and I was asked to remove highly valuable personal items, stow my camera bag in my checked bag, and then had to pay and overweight fee. Kinda bogus, but I was tired and wanted to get home so I complied. Regardless, it would have been nice to have had my bag retrieved during the London to Pittsburgh flight so I could put on new clothes and freshen up before take off.

The staff was extremely friendly and nice. Overall, the flight was pleasant, and the food was good. They asked me to check in my smaller cabin luggage suitcase in Mumbai as the flight was full. Fortunately, I had packed a spare set of clothes in my laptop bag so I was okay.

Flight was delayed by over two hours and that meant my connecting flight was in jeopardy but there was no acknowledgement or help from the BA staff

The gate agent made me check my carry-on in Denver, even though I've traveled all over taking this case on the plane. Beware folks. Food in Premium Economy was quite good - excellent blanket! Flight attendants on the Heathrow-to-Budapest flight on 3-27-2026 were quite snappy. I got a frown when asked to unscrew the water bottle cap for me (I had a cast on my right arm). Also woke up right when they were handing out biscuits. She had given my rowmates one and was in the process of giving water when I asked for a biscuit. She scolded me and said, "You snooze, you lose". She did give me one, but I thought that comment was uncalled for.

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