Route · PVG → CTU
Flights from Shanghai to Chengdu
One of the busiest domestic trunk routes in China, the roughly 1,700-kilometre hop from Shanghai Pudong to Chengdu Tianfu (or occasionally Shuangliu) typically clocks a block time of around two and a half hours, making it a natural business-traveller corridor between the Yangtze Delta and the Sichuan Basin. The route is saturated with capacity: Sichuan Airlines and Air China hold the largest shares, with China Eastern, China Southern, and Chengdu Airlines also running frequent rotations on narrowbodies — Airbus A320-family jets dominate, though Air China occasionally deploys widebody equipment on peak departures. Practically speaking, confirm which Chengdu airport your ticket uses, as Tianfu (TFU) and the older Shuangliu (CTU) both remain active and sit roughly 50 kilometres apart. On fares, midweek departures and travel outside the Golden Week and Spring Festival windows — broadly October through mid-January — tend to offer the most competitive economy pricing, while business-class redemptions on this high-frequency route are often surprisingly accessible through domestic mileage programmes.
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Cheapest dates to fly
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Airlines on this route
6 carriersThe 6 carriers we currently track on the Shanghai–Chengdu 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 Shanghai to Chengdu
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Shanghai to Chengdu — 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 PVG and… CTU, 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.