Route brief · MNL → MEX
Manila → Mexico City
$1,224
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 17 – Sep 26 · 9 nights
STARLUX Airlines3 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMEXMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)All routes into Mexico CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Mexico City: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 19 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under STARLUX Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,224 for 14,220 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 15 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this fare ranks 8th — 50% above the $817 from Istanbul. For context, the middle fare among the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $923. We have 3 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.
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Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ~19 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,220 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- STARLUX Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
MNL → MEX, answered.
How far in advance should I book MNL → Mexico City?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Mexico City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under STARLUX 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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