Route · PEK → PVG
Flights from Beijing to Shanghai
The Beijing–Shanghai corridor is one of the busiest domestic trunk routes in China, covering roughly 1,100 kilometres with a typical block time of under two hours, making it a genuine alternative to the four-to-five-hour high-speed rail journey. Air China and China Southern dominate frequencies, operating narrowbodies — typically Boeing 737s and Airbus A320-family jets — alongside occasional widebody deployments on peak morning banks; international carriers including ANA, Air New Zealand, and United serve the route as a connecting segment within larger itineraries. Practically speaking, note that Beijing Capital (PEK) and Shanghai Pudong (PVG) are both large multi-terminal airports where domestic check-in queues can be substantial, so budget at least ninety minutes before departure. Fares tend to soften midweek and during the shoulder periods of late winter and early autumn, while the lucrative morning business banks fill earliest and hold price best through the week.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Beijing (PEK) → 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
7 carriersThe 7 carriers we currently track on the Beijing–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 Beijing to Shanghai
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Beijing 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 PEK 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.