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12:45 - 16:25MEL-BKI
29h 40m2 stops
21:30 - 05:30BKI-MEL
30h 00m2 stops
Sat, 24 Aug - Sat, 31 Aug
12:45 - 20:50MEL-BKI
34h 05m2 stops
16:35 - 11:45BKI-MEL
17h 10m2 stops
Fri, 23 Aug - Fri, 30 Aug
01:20 - 20:40PER-BKI
19h 20m1 stop
11:20 - 16:10BKI-PER
28h 50m1 stop
$643Batik Air
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Mon, 5 Aug - Tue, 13 Aug
23:15 - 10:40PER-BKI
11h 25m1 stop
21:30 - 16:10BKI-PER
18h 40m1 stop
$653Batik Air
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Tue, 6 Aug - Tue, 13 Aug
13:35 - 11:35MEL-BKI
25h 00m1 stop
12:30 - 21:30BKI-MEL
30h 00m1 stop
$662Scoot
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Sun, 27 Oct - Mon, 4 Nov
12:45 - 10:50MEL-BKI
24h 05m1 stop
21:35 - 20:15BKI-MEL
20h 40m1 stop
$717Scoot
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Fri, 23 Aug - Fri, 30 Aug
10:05 - 18:20SYD-BKI
34h 15m1 stop
23:55 - 08:25BKI-SYD
30h 30m1 stop
$834China Southern
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Sat, 31 Aug - Sat, 7 Sep
10:10 - 18:00BNE-BKI
33h 50m1 stop
19:05 - 08:30BKI-BNE
35h 25m1 stop
$839China Southern
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Fri, 1 Nov - Sat, 16 Nov
13:05 - 23:40SYD-BKI
12h 35m1 stop
19:05 - 10:00BKI-SYD
12h 55m1 stop
$1,131Malaysia Airlines
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Mon, 19 Aug - Mon, 26 Aug
00:30 - 15:20MEL-BKI
17h 50m1 stop
05:20 - 20:45BKI-MEL
12h 25m1 stop
$1,137Malaysia Airlines
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Sat, 26 Oct - Mon, 4 Nov

Flights to Kota Kinabalu - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights to Kota Kinabalu to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest day to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

The average price of all flights to Kota Kinabalu clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is Monday where tickets can be as cheap as $785. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Friday, where prices are $954 on average.

What is the cheapest month to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to Kota Kinabalu, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.
The cheapest month for flights to Kota Kinabalu is October, where tickets cost $660 on average for one-way flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and January, where the average cost of tickets from Australia is $1,164 and $1,033 respectively. For return trips, the best month to travel is February with an average price of $582.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu?

The average price for all flights to Kota Kinabalu depending on the time of departure, clicked by users on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.
The cheapest time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is generally at night, when flights cost $845 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Kota Kinabalu is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,228.

How far in advance should I book a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights to Kota Kinabalu, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price, you should book around 0 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 13 days before departure.

How long is the flight to Kota Kinabalu?

The duration of your flight to Kota Kinabalu depends on your departure and arrival airports. Obviously any flights that include a layover will also be longer. The most popular routes to Kota Kinabalu on KAYAK are from Perth, which takes 11h 25m, Sydney, which takes 15h 55m, Melbourne, which takes 16h 00m, and Brisbane, which takes 20h 40m.

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Low season

April

High season

December

Cheapest flight

$471
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 1% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly (45% more expensive on average)
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When to book flights to Kota Kinabalu

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel to Kota Kinabalu based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs - booking Kota Kinabalu flights

  • How far is Kota Kinabalu Airport from central Kota Kinabalu?

    You’ll need to travel 6 km to reach the Kota Kinabalu city centre from Kota Kinabalu Airport.

  • What is the name of Kota Kinabalu’s airport?

    All flights to Kota Kinabalu land at Kota Kinabalu Airport. The airport code is BKI,and it can also be referred to as Kota Kinabalu or Kota Kinabalu Intl.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to Kota Kinabalu.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to Kota Kinabalu?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Kota Kinabalu is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Kota Kinabalu with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to Kota Kinabalu?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Kota Kinabalu up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • Which airline offers the most flights to Kota Kinabalu?

    Of the 5 airlines that fly to Kota Kinabalu, AirAsia offers the most flights, with around 238 per week, followed by Malaysia Airlines with 138 flights per week.

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Australia to Kota Kinabalu

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Thursday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +27 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +23 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

Sunday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

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Direct returns

Kota Kinabalu to Australia

Monday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Tuesday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +24 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Wednesday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +25 more

Thursday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +26 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +27 more

Friday

AirAsia, AirAsia X, Batik Air, +23 more

AirAsia, AirAsia X, +24 more

Saturday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

Sunday

Air Busan, AirAsia, AirAsia X, +25 more

Air Busan, AirAsia, +26 more

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Top 5 airlines flying to Kota Kinabalu

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to Kota Kinabalu. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from Australia to Kota Kinabalu. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to Kota Kinabalu? 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.
8.2
Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1367 reviews
8.1Entertainment
8.0Comfort
8.4Boarding
7.7Food
8.6Crew
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Good airlines, travelled 🧳 n Singapore multiple times and experience is consistent

8.0 ExcellentRavi, July 2024HYD - SIN
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Good airlines, travelled 🧳 n Singapore multiple times and experience is consistent

They bumped us up. They overbooked the flight and we hurried to the next flight. We are a family of 5 with 13, 10 , and 6 year olds kids. Everybody was running to the next flight. We never been exhausted in our flights hust like we have experienced this week. Mismanagement in scoot and kayak.

They ran out of food for breakfast They did not offer tea or coffee The staff appeared very inexperienced The cabin was very cold, even with a blanket

Crews were great but food not much selection just all tailored for Asian passengers.

I had a great experience with Singapore airlines as always. The partner airline, Scoot was fine except my bag was misplaced during the shuffle. Ultimately, my baggage arrived intact. Attempting to inquire about my baggage was impossible.

The Premium economy class is not the same as some other airlines because there are no economy seats on these planes. Basically you’re getting an economy seat that’s a little wider. The seats are not that much more comfortable. The service and food experience is similar to economy class on other Asian airlines. There aren’t enough toilets for the entire plane therefore we are forced to share the business class toilets that are closed off with curtains.

Good flight. Fiod was ready a bit late hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Great to have actual hot tastey meal on a flight. Well done

All in all the flight was good. Love the fact that for airline food it was piping hot

It was a 2-hour flight so they didn't have much time for serving food. There was some turbulence so they could not serve hot coffee or tea for the safety reason. Good service, good tasting food, nice plane, a little bit of delay.

The IFE is quite unconvenient if using our own device. Not all passenger brought their own earphone/headphone.

Ok, but legspace on MH0127 from Kul to Per was too small. It was not possible to tilt my seat which I don't understand because the seat in front of my could do it. So I didn't rest on the flight. Also, the crew was probably understaffed because it took very long time to take trash after the meal. Everything very different from the flight with Malaysian Airlines from London to KL.

Service / food has to be much better. Staff were not very attentive to requests. Requested for a second serve of coke and got a weird look back from the host! Was also told they don’t have extra water bottles when I requested for one before sleep! Dinner time food was very minimum and average.

An overnight Doha to KL. Great sleep, good service and tasty food in business class

chaos boarding. Crew in business class seemed short staffed and lacking in attention to details initially, but did improve during flight.

The cabin was quite noisy as there were lots of children travelling for the school holidays. Found the selection of movies limited.

Delayed, not enough information. Had to ask for refreshments, crew could have been more proactive

The best so far coz this time it was all male steward on the economy cluster. They were polite, efficient & genuinely courteous. They do not judge you when you ask for more food & peanuts.

Delayed for 45 minutes. Don't know what's the issue. Other than that, food was not to my satisfaction. However it's okay.

The cosmetic condition was pretty run down. The carpets were badly worn out. Even the paint on the wings was chipped and peeled! Looks like they are running these 787s to the ground..

WiFi didn’t work on both sectors so made killing time harder - planes clean modern and good flight crew - would do again if WiFi works

6hrs fly they dont give you a glass of water from seoul to singapore need to buy drink and food plus they charge for bag on international fly is always Free 1 bag from seoul to singapore is Not a local fly you are traveling true asia same story from singapore to Bali no water drink after payment for bag drink cost more the regular airline Well never use this company again we use regular company like Delta korea japan China and even scoot parent company Singapore Air

We had 2 attempts to land at Singapore Changing during a thunderstorm. Everything was delayed by 1 hour plus.

Boarding was not accordingly after front seat, bmf then back seat. This delayed for at least 40mins or more. The staff at Jakarta can do better. Is chaos at the entry to board the plane. This tarnished Scoot reputation when everyone was talking about it.

The crew was not customer oriented at all, even confrontational . The aircraft needs more attention to detail as far as comfort, and the 1 hour sitting at the gate with no air is inexcusable

We flew on the 787 Dreamliner direct to main gate at KLIA2, quick entry via eGate and on the train 41mins after touchdown. Go well SCOOT

Was on scoot plus. The only good thing about the flight was the spacious seats. Tables and armrests were extremely dirty Food: bad Entertainment: non existent Wifi: unable to connect, then was painfully slow that we couldn’t even send messages Good thing we had a night flight, so we just slept throughout.

Not clear why boarding passes could only be issued at the counter and not through the kiosk. I had already check-in on the web, so waiting to obtain a boarding pass 1.5 hours before the actual flight defeats the purpose of early web check-in.

no charging point. food offering is limited and very much on the budget line. Overall is not satisfying for such a price and duration of flight.

The flight was on-time and we landed safely! But - toilets were tiny The seats were thin and very uncomfortable My seat rest wouldn’t tilt back so massive back ache after a while - the button had been removed. Seat back pocket was ripped Food was inedible- we’d ordered asian vegetarian - shockingly bad. The interior fit out was like the plane was 40 hard years yet it was a 787. No wifi.. no exterior cameras like Emirates.

Poor selection of movies and entertainment options. Disappointing food options in business.

Either the PA system of Brunei International Airport is of poor quality, or the staff making the announcement was not clear is reading the announcement. The staff at the gate also did not further announce to the passengers with regards to the rows for boarding. On board, the crew was of little to nil help. The only times they were around were during takeoff, "distributing" food and landing. And even during those times they were just there to get "their" job done with little to nil interest to "serve" the customers/passengers. They did not request the passenger in front of us to put his seat up during takeoff, they did not request the passengers to put their seat up during mealtime. The capability of the crew has dropped significantly in comparison to the old times. The crew is in need of better training.

Delayed for 3 hours, need to pay extra for drinking water.

The OD2204 KUL-LGK was delayed 40 minutes due to air-condition malfuntion, after inspection the technician give green light for the flight to go as usual but the air-condition is still not working properly, passengers complaining to the stewardess but they cannot do anything, I did tweet to @malindoair to complaint but no reply from them … hope this Batik Air is not having problem like Rayani Air and I do hope the management do respond to my complaint as well

Nasi lemak was horrible. Plain white rice, tasteless sambal, no cucumber, no kacang, no ikan bilis. And the chicken was colourless and tasteless, tasted like boiled chicken. Entertainment system didn't work at all.

2 delayed flights - hotel layover in a different country- lost baggage.

Silly to not even offer people water for free when they are paying so much for tickets.

You get what you pay for. It’s functional and gets you from point A to B in good comfort. However, food options are limited and cash only, Crew is a hit and miss .. they get your attention if you reach out.

Good leg room ... air conditioning was a bit warm don't Book row 8 ... no windows

They got to the terminal late, with no one on the arriving flight, boarded us late, and left us sitting there for 2 hours before they got us off the ground. They knew they were going to be late, yet they never got an updated flight plan from their head office until long after the flight was supposed to leave. They could have cut the delay in half, of at least let us stay in the terminal. Really just horrible planning.

The worst kind of budget airline. To be honest....the plane was not that bad. Would have been good to have some food choices and some water. What was by far the worse is the passengers/customers that this airline attracts. Coughing and spluttering all over one another with no masks. Just disgusting. Pay for a better carrier and get a better class of passenger.

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Recent return flight deals

 
These are the cheapest return flights to Kota Kinabalu found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
24/8Sat
2 stops
29h 40mMEL-BKI
31/8Sat
2 stops
30h 00mBKI-MEL
$598
23/8Fri
2 stops
34h 05mMEL-BKI
30/8Fri
2 stops
17h 10mBKI-MEL
$605
5/8Mon
1 stopBatik Air
19h 20mPER-BKI
13/8Tue
1 stopBatik Air
28h 50mBKI-PER
$643
6/8Tue
1 stopBatik Air
11h 25mPER-BKI
13/8Tue
1 stopBatik Air
18h 40mBKI-PER
$653
27/10Sun
1 stopScoot
25h 00mMEL-BKI
4/11Mon
1 stopScoot
30h 00mBKI-MEL
$662
23/8Fri
1 stopScoot
24h 05mMEL-BKI
30/8Fri
1 stopScoot
20h 40mBKI-MEL
$717
31/8Sat
1 stopChina Southern
34h 15mSYD-BKI
7/9Sat
1 stopChina Southern
30h 30mBKI-SYD
$834
1/11Fri
1 stopChina Southern
33h 50mBNE-BKI
16/11Sat
1 stopChina Southern
35h 25mBKI-BNE
$839
19/8Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
12h 35mSYD-BKI
26/8Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
12h 55mBKI-SYD
$1,131
26/10Sat
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
17h 50mMEL-BKI
4/11Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
12h 25mBKI-MEL
$1,137

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best deals for one-way flights to Kota Kinabalu found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
15/8Thu
3 stops
44h 05mBNE-BKI
$471
15/8Thu
2 stops
28h 50mBNE-BKI
$474
15/8Thu
1 stopChina Southern
14h 45mBNE-BKI
$611
21/8Wed
2 stops
24h 50mSYD-BKI
$1,684
21/8Wed
3 stops
40h 20mSYD-BKI
$1,719
21/8Wed
1 stop
23h 00mSYD-BKI
$2,526

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Recent domestic flight deals

18/8Sun
direct
2h 55mKUL-BKI
22/8Thu
direct
2h 35mBKI-KUL
$134
8/1Wed
directBatik Air
2h 40mKUL-BKI
16/1Thu
directBatik Air
2h 30mBKI-KUL
$148
6/1Mon
directBatik Air
2h 40mKUL-BKI
12/1Sun
directBatik Air
2h 30mBKI-KUL
$160
7/8Wed
direct
2h 55mKUL-BKI
7/8Wed
direct
2h 35mBKI-KUL
$162
18/8Sun
direct
2h 55mKUL-BKI
22/8Thu
multi-stop
8h 10mBKI-KUL
$170
3/10Thu
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 40mKUL-BKI
6/10Sun
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 35mBKI-KUL
$171
1/1Wed
directBatik Air
2h 40mKUL-BKI
15/1Wed
directBatik Air
2h 30mBKI-KUL
$180
28/8Wed
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 40mKUL-BKI
6/9Fri
directMalaysia Airlines
2h 40mBKI-KUL
$193
18/9Wed
directAirAsia
2h 20mJHB-BKI
22/9Sun
directAirAsia
2h 15mBKI-JHB
$211
7/8Wed
multi-stopAirAsia
10h 25mKUL-BKI
7/8Wed
multi-stopAirAsia
10h 15mBKI-KUL
$312

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