Route brief · MNL → AKL
Manila → Auckland
$798
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $855 · difference $57
Oct 21 – Nov 3 · 13 nights
Xiamen Airlines2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $853–$999
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAKLAucklandA city built on fifty volcanoes between two harbours — and the start of every New Zealand road trip.Best windowNov–AprAirportsAuckland (AKL)All routes into AucklandWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for MNL → AKL. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in October around $798 and peak in September near $1,745 — a $947 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $798 for 8,023 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 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Auckland, this fare ranks 5th — 21% above the $659 from Tokyo. For context, the middle fare among the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $773.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% lower than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $933 then versus $861 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 $798, on Oct 21.
- Tue, Sep 1$932
- Thu, Oct 1$1,209
- Tue, Oct 20$899
- Wed, Oct 21$798
- Thu, Oct 22$807
- Fri, Oct 23$798
- Sat, Oct 24$914
- Sun, Oct 25$823
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 Oct · around $798
7% below the $855 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Manila → Auckland · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Auckland (AKL)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,023 km each way
- Typical price
- $855 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Xiamen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
MNL → AKL, answered.
Is $798 a good price for Manila to Auckland?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $855 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $57. 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 Manila to Auckland?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Auckland are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Auckland?
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 5 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Auckland?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen 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.
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