Route brief · CHI → MNL
Chicago → Manila
$494
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $670 · difference $176
Apr 19 '27 – Apr 27 '27 · 8 nights
United1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $501–$880
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMNLManilaChaotic, warm and mostly a gateway — the islands worth the trip are a cheap domestic hop away.Best windowDec–AprAirportsNinoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)All routes into ManilaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Apr is the cheapest for CHI → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in April around $494 and peak in December near $1,000 — a $506 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $494 for 13,083 km each way, that works out to about $19 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 5th — 24% above the $398 from San Francisco. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $897 then versus $906 now, across 5 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 $512, on Nov 1.
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.
Cheapest in Apr · around $494
26% below the $670 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Chicago → Manila · cached-price history
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
- Typical price
- $670 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
CHI → MNL, answered.
Is $494 a good price for Chicago to Manila?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $670 round-trip. At $494 you're 26% below that, saving about $176, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Chicago to Manila?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Apr comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Manila are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Apr comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under United. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). 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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