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Cheapest return flight
$746
Typical prices: $736-$1,353
Juneyao Airlines
Sun 11/11Sun 25/11
MEL - DLC • 1 stop
Cheapest one-way flight
$480
Typical prices: $417-$708
China Southern
Fri 23/2
SYD - DLC • 1 stop
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Cheap Flights to Dalian

 
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Recent return flight deals to Dalian

Wed, 11 Nov - Wed, 25 Nov
Juneyao Airlines Logo
09:00 - 20:40MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
14h 40m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
Juneyao Airlines Logo
21:40 - 07:00DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
30h 20m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
$746Juneyao Airlines
Mon, 16 Nov - Mon, 23 Nov
Sichuan Airlines Logo
21:40 - 13:15MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
18h 35m1 stop Chengdu Tianfu Intl
Sichuan Airlines Logo
14:30 - 15:00DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
21h 30m1 stop Chengdu Tianfu Intl
$766Sichuan Airlines
Sun, 15 Nov - Sun, 22 Nov
XiamenAir Logo
12:35 - 23:40MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
14h 05m1 stop Xiamen Gaoqi Intl
XiamenAir Logo
08:00 - 10:35DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
23h 35m1 stop Xiamen Gaoqi Intl
$775XiamenAir
Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 16 Dec
China Southern Logo
15:10 - 23:10SYD  Sydney Kingsford Smith-DLC Dalian
35h 00m1 stop Guangzhou Baiyun
China Southern Logo
07:25 - 07:30DLC  Dalian-SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith
21h 05m1 stop Shenzhen
$776China Southern
Mon, 16 Nov - Mon, 23 Nov
China Eastern Logo
13:00 - 10:55MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
24h 55m2 stops Nanjing Lukou Intl Xi'an Xianyang
China Eastern Logo
11:20 - 10:00DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
19h 40m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
$776China Eastern
Wed, 11 Nov - Wed, 25 Nov
Multiple Airlines Logo
12:00 - 13:30MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
28h 30m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
Multiple Airlines Logo
11:55 - 11:00DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
20h 05m2 stops Xi'an Xianyang Nanjing Lukou Intl
$777Multiple Airlines
Thu, 26 Nov - Wed, 16 Dec
China Southern Logo
15:10 - 16:40SYD  Sydney Kingsford Smith-DLC Dalian
28h 30m2 stops Guangzhou Baiyun Zhengzhou
China Southern Logo
07:25 - 07:30DLC  Dalian-SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith
21h 05m1 stop Shenzhen
$878China Southern
Tue, 8 Dec - Tue, 29 Dec
China Eastern Logo
12:00 - 09:20SYD  Sydney Kingsford Smith-DLC Dalian
24h 20m1 stop Shanghai Pu Dong
China Eastern Logo
10:40 - 09:05DLC  Dalian-SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith
19h 25m1 stop Nanjing Lukou Intl
$1,181China Eastern
Mon, 19 Oct - Thu, 22 Oct
Sichuan Airlines Logo
21:20 - 11:55MEL  Melbourne-DLC Dalian
17h 35m1 stop Chengdu Tianfu Intl
Sichuan Airlines Logo
20:25 - 15:10DLC  Dalian-MEL Melbourne
39h 45m2 stops Hangzhou Chengdu Tianfu Intl
$1,196Sichuan Airlines
Tue, 8 Dec - Tue, 29 Dec
XiamenAir Logo
12:35 - 17:10SYD  Sydney Kingsford Smith-DLC Dalian
31h 35m3 stops Xiamen Gaoqi Intl Chongqing Jiangbei Intl Yun Cheng
XiamenAir Logo
08:00 - 10:35DLC  Dalian-SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith
23h 35m2 stops Huai'an Lianshui Intl Xiamen Gaoqi Intl
$1,798XiamenAir
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Price, demand, and travel trends for flights to Dalian

Use KAYAK data on prices, travel dates, airlines, and seasonal trends to compare options and book flights with more confidence.

What is the cheapest flight to Dalian?

Melbourne Airport to Dalian is the cheapest route at $746 return, found in the past 5 days on KAYAK. Sydney to Dalian is the most popular connection with return deals from $776.

How much is a flight to Dalian?

On average, a return flight from Australia to Dalian costs $1,015, based on KAYAK data over the past 12 months. Return fares from Melbourne Airport average $932, while Sydney runs a bit higher at $939.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Dalian?

Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly to Dalian at $964 return on average over the past 12 months on KAYAK. Monday is the most expensive at $1,076.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Dalian?

•February is the cheapest month to fly to Dalian with an average price of $691 return.
•December ($1,509) and July ($1,354) are the most expensive.
•Based on KAYAK data over the past 12 months.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Dalian?

Afternoon flights to Dalian are the cheapest at $927 return on average. Night flights are the most expensive at $1,076.

What is a good deal for flights to Dalian?

Flights under $736 are considered a good deal. 25% of KAYAK users found return flights to Dalian at or below these prices, with the lowest fares from:
•Melbourne Airport $684
•Sydney $686.

When are flights to Dalian the cheapest?

Flights to Dalian are cheapest 20 weeks before departure. Booking in this window typically costs about 43% less than the average last-minute fare (within 2 weeks of the flight), based on KAYAK data.

Key details for flights to Dalian

Low season

July

Cheapest flight

$480
Beat the crowds with an average 25% drop in traveller numbers.
The most popular month to fly with an average 94% increase in traveller numbers.
One-way flight from Sydney to Dalian

When to book flights to Dalian

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Dalian based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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Your questions about flights to Dalian, answered

Find helpful route details based on KAYAK data, including flight times, airports, airlines, and booking questions.

  • How do I know if a flight to Dalian is a good deal?

    A good deal on a flight to Dalian is around $736 return. This fare is in the lowest 25% of return flight prices searched on KAYAK, averaged across the cities most often searched as origins by KAYAK users.

  • Which city has the cheapest flights to Dalian?

    Based on fares booked in the past 5 days, the cheapest flights to Dalian are from Melbourne, starting at $746 return.

  • How expensive are last-minute flights to Dalian?

    Last-minute fares to Dalian (booked within two weeks of departure) are typically 10% higher than the average return fare of $1,015.

  • What is the difference between the most popular and the most frequent airline at Dalian?

    Asiana Airlines operates the most flights from Australia to Dalian at 0 per week, while China Eastern is the airline most often selected by KAYAK users searching for flights from Australia to Dalian. The two are often different because flight volume reflects an airline's schedule, while popularity reflects traveller choice.

Your guide to booking Dalian flights

From booking to airport arrival, find tips to help you plan your flight with more confidence.
  • For the best chance at a low fare to Dalian, book around 20 weeks before departure. Based on KAYAK data from the last 12 months, fares are historically about 43% lower during this window than last-minute fares.
  • For flights to Dalian, a good return fare is around $736. If you find a fare below that, you're getting a strong deal.
  • If your travel dates are flexible, consider flying to Dalian in February. Return fares historically average $691, making February the cheapest month to travel based on KAYAK data from the last 12 months.
  • Before you book:

    • Check the route's typical price range so you can spot a deal.
    • Confirm baggage fees and seat selection costs on budget carriers.
    • Verify whether you need any travel documents beyond an ID.
    • Pick a departure airport, since your nearest may not be the cheapest origin.
  • Shift your departure to midday to save up to $149 on a return flight. Midday flights to Dalian average $927 compared to $1,076 for evening flights.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying to Dalian

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Dalian? 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.
7.8
Sichuan AirlinesOverall score based on 35 reviews
8.6Crew
7.6Comfort
7.1Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.4Food
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Sichuan Airlines was surprisingly great. The crew is fabulous, the plane was fantastic and nice and new (A350-900). I had a particularly nice flight attendant who kept me informed of all the flight progress and meals. I also got to sleep really well. Entertainment and food is more tailored to majority (Chinese) so I can’t really complain about that. Overall fantastic flight!

10.0 ExcellentBedan, Feb 2026
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Sichuan Airlines was surprisingly great. The crew is fabulous, the plane was fantastic and nice and new (A350-900). I had a particularly nice flight attendant who kept me informed of all the flight progress and meals. I also got to sleep really well. Entertainment and food is more tailored to majority (Chinese) so I can’t really complain about that. Overall fantastic flight!

Very old business class seats, not fully flat, angled with a bar sticking in your back; seats old and apparently never cleaned, no mattress topper either, not the standard expected in J (also in awful 2-2-2 layout)! Ancient entertainment system of the pop-out type with tiny, old screen. Staff are OK but not proactive, need to be solicited, and of limited English skills, but they do try. Food and beverage options very limited (go for Chinese selection as their Western food is atrocious), no menu given and no dine-on-demand option. All in all, only choose if at a significant discount.

Definitely not top-of-the-range business class, but the A350 is certainly better than their other planes which feature an even older business class. Food/drink offerings are very limited and not up to business class standard, but OK. Staff are keen to help and friendly enough, although poor English language skills. Boarding experience in Rome was poor due to rude Italian staff at gate, but this is not the airline's fault. Onboard entertainment options are mediocre and limited. Sichuan Air is only wort it when obtained at low price and if you basically only want to sleep/rest and bring your own entertainment.

Not sure who to "blame" but I booked the ticket from SiChuan airline overseas. On the day of flight at the airport, I learnt that our passport information was not entered into the system. I was told by the SiChuan airline that this is not the first time that ticket booked overseas missing ID information. Since airport ticket counter does not have authority to add ID information, we have to call SiChuan airline customer service, Luckily, we arrived at the airport early enough to handle this and SiChuan airline customer service has been very helpful.

Dad experience when you check in in chenddu airport , service need to improve

Not good experience when you checkin in China, service need to prove

It we as a pleasant flight. Good helpful and happy cabin crew. Food was okay, not to write home about. Drinks good. Entertainment okay.. Seat space good , comfort acceptable

Weren’t even given earphones to use the entertainment system

Overall, excellent: check-in, boarding, service, and food. The Business Class seating is a little less private and spacious than the world's premier airlines, but still very good for a long haul flight.

It's terrible that we can't do online check in because we didn't buy the tickets directly from Air china. It was not explained until I contacted Chatdeal and we could not sit together.

Food and service are good. Bathroom was lack of lotions and cleaning. That should be improved.

Food & service very good next I will pick up again

Everything was not satisfactory - the flight was delayed, staffs were ok but they didn't speak English well. I am from east Asia (not Chinese) and they didn't care enough to remember that I wasn't Chinese but persistently spoke chinese to me. The flight announcement in english wasn't clear to understand.

I wish I had been able to choose a vegetarian meal. Crew friendly and helpful. Seat was ok. All quite efficient and pleasant. Would recommend for inner China travel for sure.

The flight is not bad, but the Business Lounge is not big enough for the quantity of people they accept and there is a limited options for food and beverages.

It was simply bad and on top of that my luggage hasn't been delivered until now. They can't even localize it which is just unacceptable when they are supposed to scan the bar code they put when we check in

We were taking the flight MU 8649 from Shanghai to Osaka and the original boarding gate was 20 and we didn’t receive any notification or broadcast about gate changes, and by the time we missed the original boarding time we check thr electric board and realized the gate was changed to 208 Also the flight was delayed by almost an hour and the crew member didn’t provide any explanation, after we finally boarded the aircraft was very hot, the crew member told me the air conditioning was not working and tried to calm passages down by offering iced water, all of us sat in the aircraft for another 40 mins before it finally took off

Seats not comfortable. We had requested vegan meal and it wasn’t given.

I was denied boarding at the Brisbane airport and it seems like I won’t get any refunds from the airline

Wow very impressed by the quality and attentiveness of service of China Southern. Lived the blankets! Will definitely fly with them again. Despite language barriers, a few attendants know enough English to understand our rudimentary Mandarin and respond to basic questions. Although they don’t explain the beverage and meal service on the website or ticketing documents, they offered regular beverage cart and snacks during the beginning hours and end hours of the long, transoceanic flight. A full meal at the beginning and end of the flight as well, and a midflight small sandwich (dinner roll sized) but we weren’t hungry and didn’t try that one. The expectation is that every sleeps during the middle of the flight. We were on a “redeye” departure from LAX with a morning arrival in China, so I don’t know if this service pattern is the same for other flights. The domestic flight we took from Guangzhou to Harbin offered conventional refreshments and meals like a US flight service. Note that they didn’t offer diet sodas. If you like to stay hydrated, I recommend bringing plenty of your own. It is served in small cups like any other drink. You can ask for a bottle but they’re tiny - about 6 ounces.

China Southern was not the problem. I booked my flight through Kayak and also received a booking reference and alert details regarding departure time and gate numbers… however Kayak NEVER actually booked my flight! We were stranded at the airport without a flight for a long awaited holiday!

Terrible boarding experience,,food is very poor that I I . Never going book this airline again.

The crew were kind, patient and responsive. The service was excellent, even though we travelled the cheapest economy class. We arrived at our destination 40 min early, which for a 15+ hour flight is a great bonus. The boarding seemed a bit "loose", but got us boarded on time, and the plane was off exactly @ 0:30 hrs.

The airport didn‘t give me the ticket. I called customer service to ask for a refund but they kept giving me a perfunctory response and refused to refund me.

Food was terrible. Fish was equal to a sausage and scrumbled eggs were terribly green with a quite weird fllavour. Everybody with me hated all options. The best food was the bread with butter.

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

Basic long haul decent price but U pay for what you get. Over 5hrs of transit and terminal was pretty bare with nothing much to do except the lounge

Business Class window seat on my Shanghai to Venice route was broken and could not be converted into a bed which has to switch to a narrow aisle seat instead

It was just fine. The sirlines did live up fully to my expectation.

While boarding at PVG, there was a ticket checking by the gate, then there was another ticket checking right at the bottom of the escalator, which created quite a dangerous congestion. Don't understand why the duplication?

I was traveling alone with an infant, so the crew was incredibly helpful. Both the international and subsequent domestic flights were impeccable.

The flight was delayed by 2 hours, although to their credit they delayed my connecting flight so people could reach it. Also their site is a nightmare to navigate on a phone. Everything else was good.

CTU-KMG-CNX with 1.5 hr connection at KMG. Doable but just barely bc immigration exit from China is at the last flight leg, here: KMG to CNX. We hauled out of the domestic terminal to reenter at the international departures (luggage checked thru to CNX thankfully). Immigration had only two agents, even though KMG gets a HUGE number of foreigners. It took forever for such a shot line. Then security also took a while, so I just just made the connection. Recommend if you exit China with domestic international transfer, plan for 2+ hrs to avoid a heart attack. Airline personnel don’t suffer if you miss the flight, you do. Plan accordingly.

China Eastern as a member of Sky Alliance airlines should have the same standards overall of their partners, Besides the seats comforts everything else is bellow the standard for a business class travelers.

2 parts to the journey. First leg covered in a newer plane with decent staff + POOR FOOD QUALITY but the second half didn’t leave a positive impression at all as the plane itself was an older built and the crew didn’t serve properly. Language is an issue with China Eastern flights as always, but unmotivated crew just makes it even bad.

Price is the main attraction. Staff is OK but difficult to communicate with them due to general lack of English. Food is truly abysmal, the main courses (4) were barely edible. The choices for breakfast served at 5:30 am prior to landing at Gatwick airport were Spaghetti Bolognese or seafood fried rice. Choices offered for all 4 mains were either something rice or noodles. Shanghai airport layover is much too long in a very poorly serviced airport. We were unable to use WiFi; private lounges required cash only payment with no ATM or cash exchange open.

Originally I booked this flight in Business Class seats, but few weeks prior to departure they downgraded our ticket to Premium Economy class because they change the type of airplane but refused to compensate any difference in pricing. That is totally unfair practice to treat a business class costumer. The food on the flight is just OK and so is the service. The boarding is a mad house, you have no idea which line is for economy or sky priority class, unless you go to the front of the line to find out.

All good except with the new restrictions on using auxiliary power banks during the flight, business class really should have power access.

Ground crew Tried to charge us 1200 RMB -about $160 for Carry on when checking in Wuhan, they say the suitcase is too large, but it’s the standard samsonite carry out suitcase purchased at Costco and we had no issue when we travelled to China just a month ago, same airline. They Wuhan ground crew even threatened that when we layover in Xiamen, they will charge even more. Very unprofessional and caused a lot of stress. The airline really needs to investigate it.

Never got to go because of i correct information while attempting to check in

They gave incorrect visa information causing me to purchase another flight. Only to find out later there was something that could be done to work around it.

The Jakarta flight was better.. We got off the plane fast. LAX to Xiamen was a slow exit. It took half and hour to disembark.

I was not allowed to board the plane if I did not buy a forward ticket after Indonesia. They said the Indonesian government would fine the airline. This was bullshit. In Jakarta immigration did not ask for this at all. I'm trying to refund the ticket. I was put in a middle seat and I asked to be put in an side seat. They wanted $45. I said NO. Later I was put in an side sest for free. On the second plane they put me in a middle seat and when I complained. They put me in the back with three empty seats. I was able to sleep. The food was okay and I got extra portions when asked. The lack of WIFI at Xiamen airport was a pain, but that's because of the Chinese government banning foreign browsers. Xiamen gets 3 out of 5. The cost was $503: LAX to Jakarta. A bargain, but you get what you pay for.

Free meals on all flights in economy. The 737´s don’t have screens so it’s a bummer. But the selection on 787´s is wide

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

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.

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