Route brief · MIL → MNL
Milan → Manila
$579
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $705 · difference $126
Nov 16 – Nov 29 · 13 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $635–$762
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Nov is the cheapest for MIL → MNL. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $579 and peak in January near $817 — a $238 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $579 for 10,469 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Manila, this fare ranks 8th — 45% above the $398 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Milan, where the middle fare is $714.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $770 then versus $650 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 $618, on Aug 24.
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 $579
18% below the $705 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Milan → Manila · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Malpensa (MXP) · Linate (LIN) · Bergamo (BGY) ↔ Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,469 km each way
- Typical price
- $705 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
MIL → MNL, answered.
Is $579 a good price for Milan to Manila?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $705 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $126. 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 Milan to Manila?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 MIL → 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 6 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 Milan to Manila?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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