Route brief · SHA → MCO
Shanghai → Orlando
$1,143
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 26 – Nov 26 · 31 nights
United2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMCOOrlandoThe theme parks are the point, and the fare war they create is the cheapest way into Florida.Best windowFeb–Apr · Oct–NovAirportsOrlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)All routes into OrlandoWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Orlando: Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 19.5 hours outbound, on a 31-night trip — ticketed under United, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,143 for 12,956 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Orlando, this fare ranks 5th — 21% above the $946 from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 20 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai, where the middle fare is $1,143. We have 1 month 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 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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- Sat, Oct 3$1,311
- Tue, Oct 20$1,254
- Wed, Oct 21$1,198
- Sat, Oct 24$1,260
- Mon, Oct 26$1,198
- Wed, Oct 28$1,203
- Thu, Oct 29$1,254
- Fri, Oct 30$1,254
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
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Orlando (MCO) · Sanford (SFB)
- Flight time
- ~19.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~12,956 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- United
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Feb–Apr · Oct–Nov
SHA → MCO, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Orlando?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Shanghai to Orlando?
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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