Route · CTU → PVG
Flights from Chengdu to Shanghai
One of China's busiest domestic trunk corridors, the Chengdu Tianfu or Shuangliu to Shanghai Pudong run covers roughly 1,700 kilometres and clocks in at about two and a half hours in the air, making it a natural business-travel staple between the Sichuan Basin and the Yangtze Delta. Sichuan Airlines and Air China dominate frequencies, with China Southern, Chengdu Airlines, and Shenzhen Airlines filling out the schedule; narrowbody Airbus A320-family jets handle the majority of flights, though Air China occasionally rotates widebody equipment on peak departures. Arriving at Pudong rather than Hongqiao matters enormously for onward connections: PVG sits roughly 45 kilometres from central Shanghai, so budget at least 75 minutes to reach the city centre via Maglev or taxi. On the fare side, midweek departures typically run cheaper than Friday or Sunday evening slots, and the shoulder months of April and October often yield the most competitive pricing before Golden Week demand tightens the market.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Chengdu (CTU) → Shanghai (PVG). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
6 carriersThe 6 carriers we currently track on the Chengdu–Shanghai route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Chengdu to Shanghai
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Chengdu to Shanghai — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at CTU and… PVG, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.