RareNonstop · 5h
CHI to SJUPuerto Rico
San Juan
$162
usually $340
−52%
Most monthly lows $287–$340. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · CHI → MNL
Chicago to Manila
Best fare, round trip
$485
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Mon 15 Feb
- Return
- Wed 24 Feb
- Stay
- 9 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 19.5h
- Airline
Korean Air
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
PhilippinesManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)Every route into ManilaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Korean Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $485 for 13,083 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 3rd — 11% above the $435 from San Francisco. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Manila: Dec–Apr.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 44% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $897 then versus $501 now, across 16 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $483, on 9 Nov.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ≈19.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈13,083 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Korean Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
Good to know
CHI → MNL, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Manila?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Korean Air. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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