Route brief · LON → KIX
London → Osaka
$951
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $1,055 · difference $104
Nov 7 – Nov 15 · 8 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,027–$1,053
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for LON → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $951 and peak in October near $1,236 — a $285 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $951 for 9,515 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 33 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 20th — 1.9× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of London is $670.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $966 then versus $1,132 now, across 8 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 $714, on Nov 22.
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 Nov · around $951
10% below the $1,055 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · London → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,515 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,055 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
LON → KIX, answered.
Is $951 a good price for London to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,055 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $104. 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 Osaka?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LON → Osaka?
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 4 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. 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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