$563 Find Cheap Flights from Colombo to Melbourne

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$873
Typical prices: $1,253-$1,649
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CMB - MEL • Direct
Cheapest direct flights
$942
Typical prices: $1,542-$1,741
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Thu 27/8Tue 17/11
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Cheap Flights from Colombo to Melbourne (CMB-MEL)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Colombo to Melbourne that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent return flight deals from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne

Thu, 27 Aug - Wed, 18 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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01:00 - 09:25
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CMB
13h 55m
1 stop
$873Multiple Airlines
Thu, 27 Aug - Tue, 17 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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06:15 - 21:50
MEL
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CMB
21h 05m
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$896Multiple Airlines
Thu, 27 Aug - Tue, 17 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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01:00 - 09:25
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CMB
13h 55m
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$900Multiple Airlines
Thu, 27 Aug - Tue, 17 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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13:00 - 17:50
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CMB
10h 20mdirect
$942Jetstar
Thu, 27 Aug - Mon, 23 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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01:30 - 22:05
MEL
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CMB
26h 05m
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$969Multiple Airlines
Tue, 1 Sep - Sat, 17 Oct
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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13:00 - 17:50
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CMB
10h 20mdirect
$977Jetstar
Thu, 27 Aug - Wed, 25 Nov
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19:50 - 10:00
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MEL
9h 40mdirect
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14:55 - 09:25
MEL
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24h 00m
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$986Multiple Airlines
Thu, 27 Aug - Thu, 19 Nov
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19h 05m
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$996Multiple Airlines
Thu, 27 Aug - Tue, 17 Nov
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19h 05m
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$997Multiple Airlines
Thu, 10 Sep - Sat, 10 Oct
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a return flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne?

This analysis is based on the cheapest return trip price found on KAYAK in the last 12 months by searching for a flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne departing in August.

What is the cheapest Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne flight route?

Data is based on round-trip flight searches on KAYAK over the past month.

The cheapest return flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne costs $358 on the route between Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport (CMB) and Melbourne Airport (MEL). It is also the most popular route.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Colombo to Melbourne?

The average price of all round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Melbourne on a Monday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Friday is the most expensive day to fly from Colombo to Melbourne. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Tuesday and avoiding Sundays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne, 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 from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne is June, where tickets cost $356 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are January and April, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,312 and $899 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne, you should book around 5 weeks before departure, which saves you about 9% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 15 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$563
Flight from Colombo to Melbourne Airport (Tullamarine)

When to book flights from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Colombo to Melbourne flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne was $563 for a one-way ticket and $873 for a return.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Colombo to Melbourne?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Colombo to Melbourne?

    Star Alliance, and oneworld are the airline alliances operating flights between Colombo and Melbourne, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Colombo to Melbourne?

    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 from Colombo to Melbourne.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Colombo to Melbourne?

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

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

    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 Melbourne from Colombo up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Prefer to fly direct from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne?

 
Direct data is based off flight results for the next 60 days. Find direct flights from all airlines flying direct from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne.
Find which airlines fly direct from Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport to Melbourne, which days they fly and book direct flights.

Direct departures

Colombo Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne

Monday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Tuesday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Wednesday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Thursday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Friday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Saturday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Sunday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

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Direct returns

Melbourne to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl

Monday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Tuesday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Wednesday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Thursday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Friday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

Saturday

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

SriLankan Airlines,Jetstar

Sunday

SriLankan Airlines

SriLankan Airlines

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Colombo to Melbourne. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Bandaranaike Intl to Melbourne? 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 1547 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.1Entertainment
8.6Crew
7.8Food
8.3Boarding
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Very concerned with guest comforts going out of their way to accommodate special dietary needs when the guests hadn’t pre-ordered.

10.0 ExcellentVerak, May 2026
SFO - SIN
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Very concerned with guest comforts going out of their way to accommodate special dietary needs when the guests hadn’t pre-ordered.

Never book through Kayak. They can offload booking to third parties that are completely horrible.

It was okay. I feel that Singapore Airlines isn't as good as it used to be but it's still not bad

I loved the full Taylor Swift selection but felt that the other selections were limited, didn’t span the popular music eras nor a wide enough range of music genres. BUT the seat and bed were GREAT (it was wide, long enough, had great storage, firm enough to uphold body postural comfort). Outstanding crew and really great food - gourmet innovative dim sum breakfast so different from the boring standard fare offered by many other business class products.

Crew is excellent Wifi needs to be improved in order to connect to the internet.

I felt that the whole experience went very smoothly. The aircraft was extremely clean and tidy on boarding. The cabin crew were beautifully turned out very, very efficient and were a credit to Singapore Airlines who are now my favourite carrier.

No frills airline with minimal leg room and no entertainment

toilets could be cleaned more frequently, everything else was pretty good.

SQ service is great as always. However, the food quality seems to have gotten a lot worse recently.

The consistency with Singapore Airlines is fantastic. Crew are always brilliant and food delicious in business class

Boarding was effortless, the food was outstanding, the seats in Premium Economy were extremely comfortable, and the staff and crew were excellent.

I never flew with alliance. Kayak is a joke and none of the flights or times were correct. Won’t ever use kayak again

I missed my flight due to unforeseen circumstances It was, however , an excellent price !

We had a medical emergency, needing to get to an emergency room upon landing at LAX. I let the back flight attendants know the situation. One, David, contacted the pilot, who made arrangements for EMT's to be there when we got off the plane. They went above and beyond for us. We didn't have to go through customs, as a customs person came to us and checked us right at the exit of the jet way. Another wonderful woman, a United employee at LAX, perhaps a customer service liaison, took care of our luggage situation, as we weren't going to make our connection to Bozeman. When we came back to LAX to see when we could get a flight to Bozeman, the personnel are very accommodating and booked us on the next flight out, and assigned good seats. It was a horrible flight, physically, from Sydney to LAX, , but the professionalism of all involved was excellent! We are very grateful fir the way they all stepped in and helped during a very unpleasant medical situation. Thank you!!

PREMIUM ECONOMY - excellent !Brilliant new plane. Excellent tv catalogue. Good food. Good communication and service from all friend Australian crew. Good communication from captain. Best travel experience in years.

Very good overall. However, your choices of free movies was limited and there was no music Channel???

I couldn't hear all of the announcements. It was nice when they put them on the screen.

This was the worst flight I’ve been on. Getting on the plane where is was 30 degrees outside was hotter on board cabin must’ve been 33 degrees. This is a health hazard. They cannot be doing this to save on fuel. People could die from this!!. Fans and a/c was, off entertainment was off. Poor excuse given. Crew made the excuse that the system didn’t have enough power. They basically were operating on one engine to save on jet fuel till 3 hours later on cruising altitude and they then started the second engine. And finally the cabin was cooled. On a 7hour red eye flight this made it so uncomfortable and impossible to sleep.

My experience was great overall. Tanya was particularly friendly and helpful the entire trip. I was very pleased with her customer service skills. The plane was an older aircraft but the entire way was comfortable with barely any turbulence at all. Qantas should speed up its fleet renovation. Totally recommend using this airline.

Qantas is always subpar beyond comfy chairs for a domestic flight

Food no choice just give it seams trying to finish what ever you have in hand

The crews were very professional and courteous. Pleasant flight and thank you!

They wouldn't let me on the plane. The 3rd party apparently didn't pay for the tickets properly?

Overall experience is good but if the food menu can change to authentic Malaysia food will be good. I.e. Nasi Lemak, Char Kueh Tiew and etc

Surprised that the safety briefing was only conducted in Malay language and no English despite there are foreigners on board. MH should take safety more seriously.

Flights were delayed, Food was good but only 1 meal instead of 2.

Food was good but only 1 meal and 1 pie, instead of 2 meals. Both legs were late.

We are row 11, when the crew came to us, only one meal choice was available.

OK seats comfortable, easy boarding/embarking, excellent connection to domestic Malaysia flight with baggage checked through without customs. Catering especially drinks borderline ok luckily less important aspect

Comfortable seats in economy, managed a few hours sleep in an o night flight but the food was terrible. Surprising as Malaysia airlines has been good in the past. Service was mediocre this time too.

Very poor. The flight was delayed for over an hour. Also, our baggage, including that of many passengers, approimately 180 bags did not arrive, and we are yet to receive it.

Poor, They have damaged my luggage and I have filed a claim at Colombo airport. They promised I will be in touch by the team within next 2 days but there is no One contacted me at all after 1 week. I then follow up again and received an email acknowledging my claim and claimed that they will reply in 12 days on investigation. Again, no response at all after that… Very disappointing…

From the checking, ground handlimg was very poor.seems new personal on duty,people qho suppose to be teaching them didnt see around.new people may mislead passenger, as of flt info boards, not give proper info.even informatiin counter people dont get uptodate info.makin big ques, totally disaster.guests were not happy about it.even boarding to aircraft some BC class pax sent to aft staircase, some aft pasx sent to front door.poor ground handling.may need to improove.

Nice crew.flight delay fromBKK for some ground prep issue I guess, crew serve well to guest, and respect to guest as well. As usual AC is old,and nt much comert in compare to other rehional airliners.other than that.all good

All good, on time, depart.only bad side was, airxraft is too old to be in business.hope ailine will manage somethinv somewhat.all good

Flight was on time.food is as usual good.Aircraft is old.old A320, seats aithout any display.crew serve well

Was good, comparatively. A330, with good crew set.on time depature. And crew try there best, to make thing efficient.

Spesific ,Crew and cabin manager, look after all pax on board despite being in a old A320 equipment.Got free seat upgrade as well,but old style seats, no much comfert on it.But food and the spesific crew, was amazing.maintain airlanka standerd.the cabin manager, who was so much keen,keen operate as per SOP.

Was got free upgrade, on old A320.aircraft is out dated kind of.bt service ,cabin manager, tried there best.and food was excelent.

When flying from Indian Sector, should be more prepared with Indian food

The Ryanair of Australia. Not impressed. Forced me to gate check my bag as it was over their weight limit. Charged me $125 for the privilege. Then said plane hold was locked and it would have to go out in the next flight, which was the following day. Explained that I was on a cruise the next day and the plane would not arrive until after the ship left, and that it would be impossible to catch up with the cruise at any point. Lady at the gate unimpressed. So to sum up they were ready to charge me $125 to lose a bag. Finally got it resolved by appealing to management, but the whole episode was not good for the blood pressure. The gate lady said they followed the Ryanair business model which means first time passengers get penalized for doing things that other airlines routinely allow.

Delayed 50 mins. Check in was excellent, boarding was good, everything else was OK and perfectly acceptable for a budget airline. Price was excellent. I noticed this airline had two other flights to our destination cancelled so not very reliable.

Horrible. The people that get this flights are very sick, dangerous and unhygienic

Great. Seats are a little cramped with only a very small recline. Service was great. Food was fine.

The flights got us to our destination. The seats on the planes were uncomfortable.

The smells on this plane were disgusting. So many sweaty and unhygienic people i couldn't stand it. I dream of being anywhere else in the world when I am on a JetStar flight they suck.

One of the better flights I’ve had w Jetstar. Smooth boarding, early take off, on time landing, very courteous crew, clean plane.

local frequent travellers know that Jetstar’s flights between MEL and LST are turnaround flights so those in the morning tend to run on time and become delayed increasingly through the day. We observed how the staff at check in and boarding try to assist, guide and facilitate travellers - they were courteous, efficient, amiable while enforcing Jetstar’s baggage requirements. They try to speed up boarding by having passengers board from both front and back. We would take Jetstar again.

The issue was a 4 hour delay to takeoff with very sketchy information provided about the available of the flights delay. Passengers were not informed of gate changes and how long the delay might be. It ended with a late night 2 hour drive to our home which was not ideal for elderly people.

Flight was fine with boarding starting a few minutes early. Not a fan of the crew pushing political messaging regarding indigenous naming of Brisbane city… really pushed it like I haven’t heard on Jetstar before.

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