Route brief · MNL → MEL
Manila → Melbourne
$465
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 15 – Oct 20 · 5 nights
Cebu PacificNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMELMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)All routes into MelbourneWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Melbourne: 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 flies Cebu Pacific nonstop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip. At $465 for 6,343 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this fare ranks 3rd — 25% above the $371 from Singapore. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila. We have 2 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 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 28% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $417 then versus $533 now, across 3 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 $417, on Aug 29.
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
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,343 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cebu Pacific
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
MNL → MEL, answered.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Melbourne?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Manila to Melbourne?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Cebu Pacific). The outbound leg runs around 8.5 hours.
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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