Route brief · LON → MNL
London → Manila
$485
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $585 · difference $100
Sep 13 – Sep 27 · 14 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $505–$629
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for LON → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $485 and peak in February near $787 — a $302 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $485 for 10,735 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 3rd — 22% above the $398 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $642.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $681 then versus $546 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 $490, on Sep 13.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 101 days priced, from 31 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $485
17% below the $585 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,735 km each way
- Typical price
- $585 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
LON → MNL, answered.
Is $485 a good price for London to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $585 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $100. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from London to Manila?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 LON → 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 9 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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