Route · TSA → SHA
Flights from Taipei to Shanghai
The 683-kilometre hop between Taipei Songshan (TSA) and Shanghai Hongqiao (SHA) is one of the most historically significant cross-strait routes in Asia, covering the distance in roughly an hour and seventeen minutes and serving the dense business corridor between Taiwan's capital and mainland China's commercial heart. EVA Air and China Airlines handle the Taiwan side while Air China and Shanghai Airlines cover the mainland, with narrowbody jets — typically the A320 family or 737 variants — doing most of the work on this short sector. Practically speaking, both airports are conveniently city-centre facilities, meaning you bypass the lengthy airport transfers associated with Taoyuan or Pudong; Shanghai Hongqiao connects directly to metro Line 2 and the city's high-speed rail hub, making onward connections straightforward. Fares tend to be softest during mid-autumn and late January shoulder windows around Golden Week and Chinese New Year peaks, and midweek departures typically offer noticeably better availability than weekend flights dominated by business travellers.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Taipei (TSA) → Shanghai (SHA). 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
5 carriersThe 5 carriers we currently track on the Taipei–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 Taipei to Shanghai
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Taipei 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 TSA 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.