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Shanghai
Shanghai1 stop$468
Guangzhou
Guangzhou1 stop$416
Beijing
Beijing1 stop$462
Fuzhou
Fuzhou1 stop$516
Shenyang
Shenyang1 stop$538
Xiamen
Xiamen1 stop$560
Qingdao
Qingdao1 stop$537
Chengdu
Chengdu1 stop$650
Dalian
Dalian1 stop$544
Nanjing
Nanjing1 stop$463
Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou1 stop$591
Xi'an
Xi'an2 stops$516
Shenzhen
Shenzhen1 stop$544
Wuhan
Wuhan1 stop$591
Tianjin
Tianjin1 stop$580
Hangzhou
Hangzhou1 stop$429
Harbin
Harbin2 stops$675
Kunming
Kunming1 stop$579
Changsha
Changsha1 stop$571
Haikou
Haikou1 stop$580

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FAQs - booking China flights

  • Which airport in China serves Hong Kong?

    If you are visiting Hong Kong, consider flying into Hong Kong International Airport (HKG), the region's main airport. The city, however, holds different customs and immigration regulations. Therefore, when flying to Hong Kong, immigration and customs are handled by Hong Kong immigration officers. Ensure you fly into an airport offering currency exchange, as Hong Kong uses the Hong Kong dollar, which differs from the Chinese yuan.

  • Which airport in China is close to the Great Wall of China?

    Beijing Airport is close to the Great Wall of China. If you want to visit the popular sections of the Great Wall of China, including Mutianyu and Jinshanling, consider flying into Beijing Capital, as it is closest. However, when visiting the lesser-known regions of the Great Wall, like Panjiakou, consider flying into Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN). You can take a train from here to the Great Wall.

  • Which airport in China is an airline hub?

    Beijing Capital is China’s main hub for Air China, Hainan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines and a focus city for Shenzhen, Sichuan and Shandong Airlines. Once you land, you can get connecting flights to many other destinations, including Changchun, Changsha and Anqing.

  • Which airport in China has eco-friendly practices?

    If you want to fly into an airport with eco-friendly practices, consider Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA), using LED lighting and promoting waste reduction and recycling. It also uses rail and metro systems for transport. Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX) uses solar panels for renewable energy generation. You can also fly into Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU), using energy-efficient systems, eco-friendly transit options and recycling waste.

  • Are there any direct flights to China?

    You can find several direct flights to China from many of Australia’s major ports. For example, Qantas offers direct flights from Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane to Shanghai, and China South offers direct flights to Guangzhou. Hainan Airlines flies from Sydney and Melbourne to Beijing. Those flying from Melbourne can also find direct flights to Shenzhen by China Southern, Qingdao by Hainan Airlines, or Chongqing by TianJin Airlines.

  • Do I need a visa to visit China?

    Those visiting China with an Australian passport will need to apply for a visa before their trip to China. It is recommended that you apply for your visa at least one month in advance. You will require the application form, a passport photo, proof of round-trip tickets, evidence of your travel itinerary, an invitation letter from the person you are visiting or from the China travel agency you are travelling with, and further documents may be requested. Keep in mind that visas to Tibet are separate.

  • Where should I stay if I am visiting the Great Wall of China?

    The best place to stay if you are visiting China to see the Great Wall is Beijing. The most well-preserved parts of the Great Wall are in suburban Beijing, about an hour’s drive from the city centre. These include the Badaling and Mutianyu, the recently renovated Juyonguan, and the wild and overgrown Jiankou. The even more scenic Simatai and Jinshanling sections are still only 2h from the city.

  • Where do I go to see the Terracotta Army?

    The Terracotta Army is in the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum in Lintong, about 45min from Xi’an in central China. The most efficient way to get there is to fly to the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport (XIY), located about 30min from downtown Xi’an or 1h from the Mausoleum Site Museum. You can catch a bus from the airport to Lintong, and transfer at the bus station for the bus to the Terracotta Warriors.

  • How long is the flight to China?

    An average direct flight from Australia to China takes 15h 34m, covering a distance of 12950 km. The most popular route is Melbourne - Shanghai with an average flight time of 10h 20m.

  • What is the cheapest flight to China?

    The cheapest ticket to China from Australia found in the last 72 hours was $283 one-way, and $416 round-trip. The most popular route is Melbourne to Shanghai Hongqiao Intl and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was $462.

  • Which airlines fly to China?

    Qantas Airways, China Eastern & China Southern fly the most frequently from Australia to China.

  • What are the most popular destinations in China?

    The next most popular destinations are Guangzhou (14%) and Beijing (11%). Searches for flights to Hangzhou (5%), to Changzhou (2%) and to Xiamen (2%) are also popular.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to China

  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest China flight deals.
  • Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), located in China’s capital Beijing, is one of the busiest airports globally. When you fly here, you can access various surrounding cities, including Changping and Shunyi.
  • If you fly to Beijing, you can land at Beijing Capital or Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX). Consider Daxing Airport, which has high-speed express trains offering fast and reliable transit to Beijing.
  • China’s biggest international hubs are Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG), and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN). Most international flights enter the country at one of these airports where you can connect to the rest of China.
  • Having two busy airports which offer a large number of international and domestic flights, Beijing is the most convenient starting point for sightseeing and further travels around China. If you’re going to China’s capital, you can fly to one of the two airports: the older Capital International Airport (PEK), or the newest Daxing International Airport (PKX).
  • If you’re flying into Shanghai, keep in mind that there are two airports you can fly into. Shanghai Pudong Airport is considered the main airport, located 45min from downtown Shanghai along the coast. Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) is closer, about 25min away.
  • China is big, and flying is the most efficient and often the most economical way to see most of the country. Flying into major centres will allow you to easily connect to domestic flights. These centres are largely found along the seacoast with the most central being Shanghai.
  • Those visiting the UNESCO Panda Sanctuaries in Jiajin, Siguniang, and Wolong Mountains can start their journey in Chengdu. The Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU) is about 1h drive from the mountains where the sanctuaries are, and many tours also start in Chengdu.
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Top 5 airlines flying to China

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Australia to China? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
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Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1491 reviews
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Great to have actual hot tastey meal on a flight. Well done

10.0 ExcellentJeff, Apr 2024SIN - MNL
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Great to have actual hot tastey meal on a flight. Well done

Excellent meal served with real utensils, cardboard served hot meals instead of plastic utensils and plastic covers. Quick service, friendly and accommodating stewards.

Cabin Crew always friendly and helpful. Seating cramped - foul smelling from toilets, high risk of disease. Guard personal property such as expensive sunglasses Coffee always awful and cold Meal trays toddler sized Not worth the extra cost to fly SQ - use a budget airline, same if not better experience

Seating cramped; close to toilet, foul smelling and noisy, very unhygienic and disease risk Free and paid Wi-Fi NOT accessible at all - misleading advertising Very expensive sunglasses disappeared from back seat pouch. Coffee disgusting and cold

Every thing was fine. Some ild classical Hindi movies should be add

People were so nice! Economy seats were small and cramped feeling for me. I’m slender and 6 feet tall

I did not like anything. Flight experience was bad overall.

We were able to check in 48 hours before departure. The boarding was a breeze. The business' seat is very large with large tv screen. The lunch and dinner were excellent with selection of wines and other drinks. The seat was converted to a totally flat bed for sleeping which was very comfortable as well. We will definitely fly with Singapore Airline again in the future.

Would have been nice to have more variety and less dairy in the Indian Vegetarian special meal. Why do they include Parathas as part of the entree and also on the side (substitute for bread/roll)? Also, no need for so much dairy...don't need milk packet, yogurt and Chobani Greek yogurt in the same meal.

Always on time. Clean and good service as always..great food too..thank you SQ, the best airline in the world👍👍👍

They asked how much cash i have . I said no cash they said bring cash from atm . Why they even care about my cash.

Flight was scheduled to depart at 1210 hrs. It was delayed 1 hour 20 minutes (maybe for air traffic control reasons). The seats were worn out and very uncomfortable. Lunch was typical for airline. Flight free were friendly.

Pros: "Na"
Cons: "Over one and an half hours delay - sitting on the airplane"
Pros: "Lots of movie options, the food was good (had multiple food dish options for each meal)"
Pros: "Good and pleasant service, new plane very clean including regular WC cleanups"
Cons: "Boarding could have been done in groups"
Pros: "I would like to never fly through China again"
Cons: "I had a 9 hour layover in Beijing and they still couldn’t get my bag on the plane to Seattle"
Pros: "Everything was great, service on flight was really nice."
Cons: "Transferring suitcases between 3 flights was not great, with security check etc. Would fly with them again. Anytime, no hesitation."
Pros: "I had a very bad experience on checking in. I went to check in at Beijing Capital airport over 1 hour (about at least 65-70 minutes) earlier than the time of taking off on Nov. 2, However, I wasn’t allowed to check in. The staff said I was late and asked me to spend extra $200 to reschedule my flight. Therefore I had to spend $200 on changing my flight to next day on November 3, which was one day late back to Boston than I expected. That’s too bad and incredible!"
Cons: "There are a couple of things need to be improved. First of all, the food were not fresh, especially the salad dish. In mean dish, the beef cooked with too much dark source and tasted salty. Hope you could improve the food quality near future! Secondly, the luggages came out too late. All passengers had waited for their luggages for more than 1hour, which was really too long. Please consider about the concerns! Thanks!"
Pros: "New aircraft used like their 787-800s"
Cons: "Since Hainan is a Chinese airline, a lot Ig Ygritte move and music choices are Chinese, but I wish they had more non-Chinese content and choices"
Pros: "For the price, Hainan is a good value."
Cons: "I find that hainan just isn’t as “polished” as perhaps other air carriers in Asia are such as Cathay, Thai or Singapore"

Wuhan - Dubai. Old plane: 1. Only USB charger. No power outlet to plug in.. 2. Super narrow seat layout 3. Toilet cover consistently fell down and hit my back when sitting on it.. :( 4. Entertainment system touch screen not sensitive, and need to press hard or use finger tips to hit. Crew were very nice and accommodating though.

1. I got very poor check in experience with the counter lady . This is the first airline I ever experienced that no combine check in weight allow . Even we have 4 of us but weight counter by piece . So we wasted lot of time argue and repack . This is super crazy 2. Next I left my Samsung tablet on the plane . And I started to escalate and finally spoke to southern airline lost and found in Malaysia and the amazing answer she give is : system nothing found and please try to call southern airline in china 🧐 . I have been flying many other airlines but this is my first encounterment with such irresponsible airline response and no empathy given to customer . My feeling is nobody bother whether how customer like me feel and I’m just too small for the management to take note .

During flight, some passengers perform stomping leg exercises which disturb the comfort (I.e. sleep) of other passengers.

No good but was short flight. Both of our China Southern flights were on time. No surprises.

The flight was okay it was the kayak customer service that was poor, I have been trying to change my name on my flight ticket 3 days before my flight and nothing got done about it even tho I messaged so many times and phoned, all I got in return was that is was being processed and still to this day nothing has been done about it, I think it’s disgusting and un needed stress to the trip.

The food was perfect. The boarding process is a bit long. Given the late boarding time, I felt very tired by the time I was seated.

Quality flight from start to finish. Customer service is evidently very important to this company. The staff really exceeded expectations.

Traveling with the Chinese airlines , their service superior to the US Airlines , they are much more friendly and the seats are comfortable , In the past I flew with United , now ,United Airline will become history for me .

Pros: "Yes, seats were very comfortable and crew members were extremely helpful"
Cons: "Everything was excellent."
Pros: "No..no redeeming features.."
Cons: "Coffee was the worst I've ever had. The 2+1 powdered mil and coffee stick. Truly awful. But i suppose there aren't many people on the flight who would order coffee..I would even pay extra for a coffee if they had a quality option. Food is comparable to a school canteen. I would probably pay 20rmb for this in Shanghai. Frozen butter for the half-frozen bread. They really couldn't do worse..."

The plane was small and a little stuffy inside the plane.

Going to Xiamen they did not offer any wine and basically offered two food choices in tin trays. Something you would expect on a domestic flight in China not a $10k business class flight. The flight attendant admitted they also stopped paying for satellite Wi-Fi; which they used to offer and now don't - without apology. Normally I am a huge fan of a non-stop but the difference between Japanese or US carriers is a large one and well worth a stop in Korea or Japan rather than pay double for no amenities at all. The plane is nice, but the experience was below par.

Once on board, everything is perfect. The young and pretty flight attendants warmly welcome each passenger and demonstrate excellent service attitudes. As passengers board one after another, the flight attendants begin to inquire about our meal preferences. I requested to see a wine list and choose a suitable red wine. She replied that there were no menus or wine lists, but she would take a photo of the red wine options on her phone and show me later. After lunch, the flight attendants began to ask about dinner arrangements. It turns out that there were only three options for dinner: seafood, chicken, and beef, exactly the same as lunch.

Cons: "Shouldn’t have babies or small kids in the business class"
Pros: "There was a good amount of leg room for an economy seat"
Cons: "I wish there was a bigger movie selection"
Pros: "There was a good amount of leg room for an economy seat"
Cons: "I wish it had more movie options"
Pros: "Crew was very good and professional, yes the seats were comfortable"
Cons: "I think the Xiamen knows how to run an airline."
Cons: "They wouldn’t let us in the plane due to passport expiring within 6 months of travel. That should have been something you should have put out there during the booking process. We’re now not going on vacation and are having a hard time getting anything back from a trip we couldn’t take"
Pros: "Crew was nice"
Cons: "It was extremely loud the entire trip and after traveling for more than 24 hours beforehand, it was an extremely uncomfortable trip."
Pros: "The crew was nice"
Cons: "My tv monitor didn’t work and my wife’s chair wouldn’t stay reclined"

Great staff and food. Seats pretty uncomfortable but plenty of legroom. Entertainment system outdated.

The flight was cancelled without any reason. But the next flight to Shanghai has to be cancelled to pay penalty.

Gatwick London-Shanghai -Bangkok.. Would have liked entertainment screens, but I know these planes are not that new. Cheap flights at the time of booking, Emirates wanted double so you get what you paid for. I would fly again with them, but if Emirates was the same price I would go with them.

We were cutting it close on our connecting flight and notified all staff at departing gate and flight attendants. From the start, we were told to check in with the international transfer desk by everyone, except for one lady who wanted to argue the time difference that was already taken into account. We also asked if we could try to exit the plane first (our family of 4 and 8 others on the same connecting flight). They just told us to check in with international transfers. We landed and had very little time to make our next flight. We were not offered any assistance or communication to the receiving gate. We ran all the way to the international transfers gate only to be turned away. I think we could have made it if we were allowed to exit and a call was made to other check in counter. After that we spent 6 grueling hours with our kids trying to rebook a flight. No food of any type of compensation was offered besides a dirty hotel room. The ladies with China Eastern at the Shanghai International counter were rude an unhelpful. We were directed to 3 different counters and waited before they said they forgot about a hotel. It was a long, miserable day. I believe this could have all been avoided.

The landings were smooth . Being unable to check-in online was terribly stressful and the queue at Haneda exemely long. We paid extra for window seats and did not get them.

Flight was fine, however we were not able to check in online, this adds to travel stress. Luckily check-in at Heathrow was quick, but we did not get the seats we paid extra for. We paid for a window and 2 aisle seats from Shanghai to Tokyo leg, but they changed us to middle seats. Not good :(

You’re in the three parts of my life, the China Eastern air crew remembered and wish me happy birthday. I was given pastries on two different occasions and a complementary drink. The stew is wish me happy birthday and gave me a birthday card. Everything was first class. Thank you.

Again, I was presented with birthday pastries two times as a celebrated my birthday on both legs of my trip. I will keep flying to China using China Eastern airlines. As they made this trip a special one thank you.

Couldn’t fly since they wouldn’t issue a boarding ticket. Something to do with not taking the departing flight since it was cancelled due to weather. No notice or anything about the trip being invalid. The app made it seem like I was all good for it. Never trusting travel agency

Multiple delays, with no explanation. Caused us to almost miss our connector. The airline made no effort when we arrived in Shanghai to help us make it to our next flight with the same airline.

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