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£264 Find Cheap Flights to Shanghai

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Cheapest return fare
£378
Typical prices: £372-£663
Hainan Airlines
Mon 16/3Fri 20/3
MAN - SHA • 1 stop
Cheapest one-way flight
£253
Typical prices: £310-£463
Multiple Airlines
Wed 21/1
MAN - SHA • 2 stops
When to travel
November
Cheapest • 14% price drop
July
Most popular
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Cheap Flights to Hongqiao Intl

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights to Hongqiao Intl 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.
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Recent return flight deals to Hongqiao Intl

Mon, 16 Mar - Fri, 20 Mar
Hainan Airlines Logo
11:15 - 10:35
MAN
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SHA
15h 20m
1 stop
Hainan Airlines Logo
19:35 - 05:50
SHA
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MAN
18h 15m
1 stop
£378Hainan Airlines
Sun, 19 Apr - Sun, 10 May
Hainan Airlines Logo
12:15 - 17:40
MAN
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SHA
22h 25m
1 stop
Hainan Airlines Logo
19:00 - 06:45
SHA
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MAN
18h 45m
1 stop
£385Hainan Airlines
Mon, 9 Mar - Mon, 23 Mar
Shenzhen Airlines Logo
21:10 - 14:10
LHR
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SHA
33h 00m
1 stop
Shenzhen Airlines Logo
09:05 - 19:10
SHA
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LHR
18h 05m
1 stop
£417Shenzhen Airlines
Mon, 20 Apr - Thu, 7 May
Shenzhen Airlines Logo
22:05 - 10:35
LHR
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SHA
29h 30m
1 stop
Shenzhen Airlines Logo
19:50 - 20:00
SHA
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LHR
31h 10m
1 stop
£426Shenzhen Airlines
Thu, 19 Feb - Sat, 7 Mar
China Southern Logo
21:30 - 21:50
LHR
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SHA
16h 20m
1 stop
China Southern Logo
09:20 - 18:35
SHA
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LHR
17h 15m
1 stop
£436China Southern
Tue, 28 Apr - Mon, 18 May
China Southern Logo
22:10 - 10:20
LHR
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SHA
29h 10m
1 stop
China Southern Logo
08:35 - 18:05
SHA
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LHR
16h 30m
1 stop
£437China Southern
Sun, 26 Apr - Thu, 7 May
Air China Logo
12:35 - 10:55
LGW
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SHA
15h 20m
1 stop
Air China Logo
19:25 - 06:35
SHA
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LGW
18h 10m
1 stop
£479Air China
Sat, 23 May - Sun, 31 May
Air China Logo
12:35 - 10:00
LGW
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SHA
14h 25m
1 stop
Air China Logo
22:30 - 06:45
SHA
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LGW
15h 15m
1 stop
£482Air China
Mon, 25 May - Tue, 9 Jun
Cathay Pacific Logo
19:35 - 12:05
EDI
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SHA
33h 30m
2 stops
Cathay Pacific Logo
16:50 - 09:40
SHA
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EDI
47h 50m
2 stops
£748Cathay Pacific
Sat, 7 Mar - Thu, 7 May
Cathay Pacific Logo
09:30 - 20:55
NCL
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SHA
27h 25m
2 stops
Cathay Pacific Logo
13:20 - 09:05
SHA
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NCL
50h 45m
2 stops
£784Cathay Pacific
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to Hongqiao Intl

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to Hongqiao Intl to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport, 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 to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport is May, where tickets cost £539 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and August, where the average cost of tickets from the United Kingdom is £901 and £787 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is November with an average price of £494.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport, 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, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 34 days before departure.

Good to know - Cheap tickets to Shanghai

Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight£253
Best time to beat the crowds (18% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (27% more expensive on average)
Flight from Manchester to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl

When to book flights to Hongqiao Intl

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Hongqiao Intl based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs - booking Shanghai flights

  • How far is Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport from central Shanghai?

    There are 9 miles between Shanghai city centre and Shanghai Hongqiao Intl Airport.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Shanghai?

    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 to Shanghai.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Shanghai?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to Shanghai 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 to Shanghai?

    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 to Shanghai up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to Shanghai

  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Shanghai flight deals.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Hongqiao Intl

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Shanghai. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from the United Kingdom to Shanghai. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Hongqiao Intl? 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.
8.2
Hainan AirlinesOverall score based on 62 reviews
8.1Comfort
8.9Crew
8.5Boarding
7.7Entertainment
8.3Food
Airline reviews

My first time flying Hainan Airlines. Boarding process was easy and quick. Staff was friendly and helpful. Food was a simple, hot meal which we don’t see much any more on short flights in the US. Only water, coffee or tea to drink but it was only a two hour flight. Overall pleasing experience.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Jan 2026
KWL - XIY
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My first time flying Hainan Airlines. Boarding process was easy and quick. Staff was friendly and helpful. Food was a simple, hot meal which we don’t see much any more on short flights in the US. Only water, coffee or tea to drink but it was only a two hour flight. Overall pleasing experience.

The absolute worst experience I’ve ever had flying. I am a regular flyer and was transferring from Seoul to Beijing to the USA. I was told the companies were partnered so no need to pick up my baggage, I got through eventually after a terribly confusing airport and unhelpful staff, had issues with the check in counter where they didn’t understand my baggage tag from the previous airline and that my bag needed transferring (which as a company partnership they should have communication like this) and then I got through extremely stressful security with multiple stops and the plane was poor quality (same exact quality as my 1.5 hour flight there) for a 16 hour flight with poor food quality, slow trash service, and less than 15 movies total for flight options I was absolutely over it. My only good thing was I was lucky enough to be sitting by myself in a row

Great although I believe they are able to redistuibute the passangers in a more comfortable way if the flight is not full dor such long flights. Unless the seats are paid for, of coruse.

Good flight, on time. The aircraft was old and the seats lost their shapes. Food was just acceptable.

Two hours delayed departure ! Lost one of our luggage! Two days later found the luggage, again waiting for more than two hours to get the lost luggage because locked at other airline office.

Hainan Airlines was amongst the best. It's sad to see her becoming just mediocre. I recommended her as outstanding. I won't recommend her again.

Such amazing service! Wonderful flight attendants who actually care about the passengers and go out of their way to make our journey easier!!

They asked how much cash i have . I said no cash they said bring cash from atm . Why they even care about my cash.

Flight was scheduled to depart at 1210 hrs. It was delayed 1 hour 20 minutes (maybe for air traffic control reasons). The seats were worn out and very uncomfortable. Lunch was typical for airline. Flight free were friendly.

did not get a notification about seat selection ahead of time. We didn't end up sitting together.

I was denied boarding at the Brisbane airport and it seems like I won’t get any refunds from the airline

In my return flight they couldn’t identify my ticket or boarding pass, I had to go to 3 different counters until I was able to get my boarding pass. The food was on, it was the bear minimum. They didn’t even recognise that I was a Muslim and can’t eat meat, chicken or pork. In one of the trays I believe they served me pork. The staff were very pleasant, but they need to be aware of their surroundings more carefully, one of them stuck her lower belly right into my face! I was shocked and very uncomfortable.

Overall I had good experience with China Southern airline. Nothing to claim. I hoped they could improve the meal quality that is.

Wow very impressed by the quality and attentiveness of service of China Southern. Lived the blankets! Will definitely fly with them again. Despite language barriers, a few attendants know enough English to understand our rudimentary Mandarin and respond to basic questions. Although they don’t explain the beverage and meal service on the website or ticketing documents, they offered regular beverage cart and snacks during the beginning hours and end hours of the long, transoceanic flight. A full meal at the beginning and end of the flight as well, and a midflight small sandwich (dinner roll sized) but we weren’t hungry and didn’t try that one. The expectation is that every sleeps during the middle of the flight. We were on a “redeye” departure from LAX with a morning arrival in China, so I don’t know if this service pattern is the same for other flights. The domestic flight we took from Guangzhou to Harbin offered conventional refreshments and meals like a US flight service. Note that they didn’t offer diet sodas. If you like to stay hydrated, I recommend bringing plenty of your own. It is served in small cups like any other drink. You can ask for a bottle but they’re tiny - about 6 ounces.

China Southern was not the problem. I booked my flight through Kayak and also received a booking reference and alert details regarding departure time and gate numbers… however Kayak NEVER actually booked my flight! We were stranded at the airport without a flight for a long awaited holiday!

The connection between LA and Atlanta was too much stress

Terrible boarding experience,,food is very poor that I I . Never going book this airline again.

The crew were kind, patient and responsive. The service was excellent, even though we travelled the cheapest economy class. We arrived at our destination 40 min early, which for a 15+ hour flight is a great bonus. The boarding seemed a bit "loose", but got us boarded on time, and the plane was off exactly @ 0:30 hrs.

The airport didn‘t give me the ticket. I called customer service to ask for a refund but they kept giving me a perfunctory response and refused to refund me.

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.

good flight. food is only so so. I actually did not eat the snack. it does not look too good on the passenger next to me.

Food no variations only beef of chicken no veggie meals

Super surprised with the entire experience. Business class is incredible. Flight attendants around the world could learn customer service from these people. Simply fabulous experience all the way around.

Pillow and blanket are dirty. My son got multiple bites during the 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.

Communication between the captain/crew and the passengers needs to be improved.

Food and service are good. Bathroom was lack of lotions and cleaning. That should be improved.

Check-in experience, for business call please provide a premium experience

Lost my luggage, ran out of food choices in business class, ground crew was completely unapologetic.

Excellent. The crew and flight were great. Checking in was easy and everyone was very helpful.

Late. And service was very slow - passengers sat for well over an hour with dirty trays etc surrounding them

Entertainment devices on A380 need to be fixed, the seats might do with updates.

I like everything about British Airways. Excellence. Perfect. Exquisite service.

The plane was dirty the food was awful and the boarding process took too long

Everything. Employees offered to help me because I had to use a cane.

Check-in and boarding were great. On flight staff were rude and disrespectful. Paid for extra room and found it incredibly cramped. Bathrooms kept in poor condition. Overall negative experience.

The business class seating arrangement for LHR to MAA was very uncomfortable. The movie options were terrible.

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