Route brief · SHA → PTY
Shanghai → Panama City
$1,546
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 17 – Dec 16 · 29 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPTYPanama CitySkyline on one side, colonial casco on the other, and Copa’s hub making Latin America cheap to reach.Best windowDec–AprAirportsTocumen (PTY)All routes into Panama CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Panama City: Dec–Apr. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 26.5 hours outbound, on a 29-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,546 for 15,015 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Panama City, this fare ranks 6th — 23% above the $1,261 from Dubai. For context, the middle fare among the 17 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $1,320. 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 one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,593 then versus $1,546 now, across 4 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 $1,546, on Nov 17.
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) ↔ Tocumen (PTY)
- Flight time
- ~26.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~15,015 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
SHA → PTY, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → Panama 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Shanghai to Panama City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish 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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