Route brief · DFW → SHA
Dallas → Shanghai
$603
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 5 – Sep 12 · 7 nights
Cathay Pacific1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSHAShanghaiThe Bund on one bank, a science-fiction skyline on the other — and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsPudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)All routes into ShanghaiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Shanghai: Mar–May · Sep–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $603 for 11,841 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 7th — 13% above the $536 from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Dallas, where the middle fare is $924. We have 1 month 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $993 then versus $819 now, across 6 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 $543, on Oct 28.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,841 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
DFW → SHA, answered.
How far in advance should I book DFW → Shanghai?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Dallas to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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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