Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → KUL
Washington to Kuala Lumpur
Best fare, round trip
$881
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Fri 23 Oct
- Return
- Sat 31 Oct
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 25.5h
- Airline
Ethiopian
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MalaysiaKuala LumpurAirAsia’s home base, which is why fares onward to anywhere in Asia collapse the moment you land.Best windowMay–JulAirportsKuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB)Every route into Kuala LumpurFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 25.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $881 for 15,339 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 13 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Kuala Lumpur, this fare ranks 4th — 27% above the $694 from Los Angeles. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 21 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $925. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Kuala Lumpur: May–Jul.
We are still collecting this route's months — 3 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB)
- Flight time
- ≈25.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈15,339 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jul
Good to know
WAS → KUL, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Kuala Lumpur?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Kuala Lumpur?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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