Route brief · LAX → MNL
Los Angeles → Manila
$412
−33% vs typical
seasonal median $615 · difference $203
Sep 15 – Oct 5 · 20 nights
United1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $436–$729
- Board rank
- Stronger than 83%
- 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 LA → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $412 and peak in June near $921 — a $509 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $412 for 11,743 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $40 that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 29 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 2nd — 4% above the $398 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 58 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $712.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $744 then versus $693 now, across 7 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 $412, on Sep 15.
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 Sep · around $412
33% below the $615 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,743 km each way
- Typical price
- $615 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
LA → MNL, answered.
Is $412 a good price for Los Angeles to Manila?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $615 round-trip. At $412 you're 33% below that, saving about $203, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles 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 LA → 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 Los Angeles 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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