Route · KMG → SHA
Flights from Kunming to Shanghai
Connecting Yunnan's high-altitude gateway to China's commercial capital, this 1,925-kilometre sector clocks in at roughly two hours and forty-five minutes block time, making it a comfortable single-aisle mission that carriers operate at high frequency throughout the day. Air China, China Southern, Shanghai Airlines, Juneyao Airlines, and Shenzhen Airlines all hold slots on the route, typically deploying narrowbodies in the Airbus A320 family or Boeing 737 series, with Juneyao occasionally fielding its 787 on busier departures. A practical note for arrivals into Shanghai: most flights from Kunming land at Hongqiao (SHA) rather than Pudong, putting you directly on the metro Line 2 and saving a significant transfer slog if your onward plans are city-centre or westbound rail connections. Fares tend to soften in the shoulder months of late autumn and early spring, while business-class redemptions on Air China's frequent-flyer programme often show better availability midweek when the corporate travel rush eases.
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Cheapest dates to fly
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Airlines on this route
5 carriersThe 5 carriers we currently track on the Kunming–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 Kunming to Shanghai
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Kunming 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 KMG and… SHA, 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.