Route brief · JKT → SHA
Jakarta → Shanghai
$263
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 1 – Nov 8 · 7 nights
Vietnam Airlines1 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 7 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Vietnam Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $263 for 4,444 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Shanghai, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.6× the $162 we hold from Kuala Lumpur. It is also the cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Jakarta. 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.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $294 then versus $277 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 $256, on Sep 20.
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
- Soekarno–Hatta (CGK) · Halim (HLP) ↔ Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA)
- Flight time
- ~7 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,444 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Vietnam Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
JKT → SHA, answered.
How far in advance should I book JKT → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Jakarta to Shanghai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vietnam Airlines. 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.
Next step
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