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Find cheap flights from Detroit to Colombo from $936

This is the cheapest round-trip flight price found by a KAYAK user in the last 72 hours by searching for a flight from Detroit to Colombo departing on 9/30. Fares are subject to change and may not be available on all flights or dates of travel. Click the price to replicate the search for this deal.
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These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Detroit to Colombo, as well as popular online travel agencies
These are the airlines KAYAK users have selected most often from within our search results in flight searches from Detroit to Colombo, as well as popular online travel agencies
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Cheap flight deals from Detroit to Colombo (DTW-CMB)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Detroit to Colombo 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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12:34 pm - 3:25 amDTW-CMB
29h 21m2 stops
11:10 am - 4:43 pmCMB-DTW
39h 03m2 stops
$936American Airlines
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Mon, Sep 30 - Tue, Oct 15
6:18 am - 10:30 amDTW-CMB
42h 42m2 stops
11:15 am - 11:40 pmCMB-DTW
45h 55m2 stops
$938American Airlines
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Thu, Sep 19 - Sat, Nov 2
8:10 pm - 5:20 amDTW-CMB
23h 40m1 stop
6:50 am - 6:25 pmCMB-DTW
21h 05m1 stop
$989Turkish Airlines
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Mon, Sep 23 - Wed, Oct 23
8:52 am - 3:25 pmDTW-CMB
45h 03m2 stops
9:30 am - 7:51 pmCMB-DTW
43h 51m2 stops
$1,158Etihad Airways
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Thu, May 9 - Thu, May 30
8:52 am - 6:05 amDTW-CMB
35h 43m2 stops
7:20 pm - 8:04 amCMB-DTW
46h 14m2 stops
$1,164Etihad Airways
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Sat, May 4 - Fri, May 24
12:35 pm - 5:20 amDTW-CMB
31h 15m2 stops
6:50 am - 6:25 pmCMB-DTW
21h 05m1 stop
$1,333Turkish Airlines
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Tue, May 14 - Tue, May 21
4:08 pm - 3:25 amDTW-CMB
25h 47m2 stops
3:35 am - 12:28 amCMB-DTW
30h 23m2 stops
$1,352Qatar Airways
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Tue, May 14 - Mon, May 20
4:13 pm - 2:05 amDTW-CMB
24h 22m2 stops
12:00 pm - 12:13 amCMB-DTW
45h 43m2 stops
$1,401Qatar Airways
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Wed, May 1 - Wed, Aug 21
4:05 pm - 2:05 amDTW-CMB
24h 30m2 stops
3:35 am - 9:49 pmCMB-DTW
27h 44m2 stops
$1,662
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Tue, Jun 4 - Mon, Jun 24
11:20 am - 1:05 amDTW-CMB
28h 15m2 stops
10:25 am - 3:16 pmCMB-DTW
38h 21m3 stops
$1,665
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Mon, Sep 30 - Tue, Oct 15

Flights from Detroit to Colombo - Travel Insights & Trends

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

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

The average price of all flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from Detroit to Colombo, you should consider leaving on a Saturday and avoid Thursdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Detroit, you’ll find the best rates on Mondays and the most expensive ones on Thursdays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport, 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 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport is October, where tickets cost $1,154 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and July, where the average cost of tickets is $2,453 and $2,366 respectively.

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June

High season

August

Cheapest flight

$936
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 32% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 4% lower on average.
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When to book flights from Detroit to Colombo

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Detroit to Colombo 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 Detroit to Colombo flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to Colombo Bandaranaike Intl Airport was $936 for a round-trip ticket.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Detroit and Colombo?

    Yes, you’ll need a passport to travel to Colombo from Detroit.

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

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Detroit to Colombo?

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

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Detroit to Colombo, Qatar Airways or Turkish Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Detroit to Colombo are Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines. With an average price for the route of $1,632 and an overall rating of 7.7, Qatar Airways is the most popular choice. Turkish Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,381 and an overall rating of 7.5.

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

    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 Detroit to Colombo.

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

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

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

    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 Colombo with an airline and back to Detroit with another airline. Booking your flights between Detroit and CMB can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

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

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

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Top 4 airlines serving from Detroit to Colombo

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Detroit to Colombo. 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 Detroit to Colombo? 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.
7.7
Qatar AirwaysOverall score based on 4499 reviews
8.2crew
7.7comfort
7.5food
7.8boarding
7.7entertainment
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Qatar airways from Doha to guangzhau was excellent big bird Boeing 777 more room and smoothly flight, I Love it

6.0 Goodmanithong, Apr 2024PHL - DOH
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Qatar airways from Doha to guangzhau was excellent big bird Boeing 777 more room and smoothly flight, I Love it

It was good no problems made it on time for the next flight overseas!

The made us waiting and held our passports and boarding pass making us miss our flights

Not impressed. Only allowed one carry on on such a long flight.

The flight was good but my neighbor had the vent open full power for the whole flight and because the air was blowing from the side instead of from the top and I got very cold and ended up with a sore throat.

Bad experience with the delay n long wait time for connecting flight after missing the connection flight from Doha.

Wore experience due to delay and took me 3 days to reach my destination.

All over with Qatar airlines my experience was really bad due to delays and then putting me on different airlines and after 8 hours of wait I had to listen to their is no plane to fly for another 24 hours. Wore experience ever.

Excellent will be flying again in May with Qatar. to Botswana.

Ultimate customer care humble and excellent service oriented crew , perfect timing maintained by the crew . My profound appreciation.

Quality of service on board was very inconsistent. FA service primarily seemed robotic and they barely engaged with passengers

I’m unclear why I had to pay extra for assigned seats as Turkish airlines did not honor the seating. We were placed across the aisle from each other on TK 34, and were seated behind one another on TK 694. Because my name was misspelled on e-ticket (Klawiter, instead of Klawitter) I could not log onto website to get the connection gate number in Istanbul. The monitors in the airport were a jumbled mess 1/2 Arabic and 1/2 English.

On line check in needs a lot of improvement. I tried and gave up.

Food not good, flight attendants not the best, not accommodating very ruff

the female flight attendant was racist towards me. I could tell she treated the two other passengers next to me with more softness.

Oh my god! For an13 hour flight they serve you food just one time. Also don’t be thirsty they give you a little small cup of soda to drink. They seem like their goal is to feed you one so they don’t have to be bothered with you. It quite surprise for such a long flight there are several times to eat at least three and the food was well lackluster. The food and lack of offering drinks which were always hot no ice provided.

We were traveling first class. Checkin counter lady and her manager, both were in bad mood and did not treat us well about checking in the handbag. The gate agent took care of it right away. I travel Turkish twice a year in first class. No one has ever refused to check in the hand bag. Not sure, why this agent and her manager refused. Everything else was excellent.

The 787 economy was a disaster for long haul. The space was too little compared to 777 or 747. Also the extremely low tray table behind the seat made any dining effort a nightmare. However, the movies were up to date, and the food taste was good, despite of terrible serving process caused by small space.

A little bit more comfort. It’s tight space around the seats. But all else is great and a smooth flight!

0ur assigned seats were given to other individuals when we boarded the plane. We were given new boarding passes with new seats all the way at the back of the plane. The reason given to us was that there were issues with the seats. We found out that there were no issues, and someone else's were seated on those.

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

i suspect i caught flu on this flight as i could hear someone coughing a few rows back and ended up with flu a few days later. also tiresome to have to watch movies on my device by holding up smartphone screen, would have liked to have in seat display.

Flight was fine. It took an unusually long time to have baggage delivered to the carousel in ORD.

No problems with flight. Even though I had a short layover in DFW, I was still able to easily make my connection.

American Airlines continues to price it can provide the least comfortable passenger experience in the air. This legacy carrier rivals the budgets for both terrible seats and inadequate amenities. I am a 5’7” woman who is not wider than a coach seat (even on these narrow bodied aircraft). My 3.5 hour flight was terribly uncomfortable because the leg room is inadequate (my knees hit the seat on front of me even when it was not reclined); the seat barely reclines; and the foam padding is worn thin to the extent one can feel the metal supports of the seat. Add to this the fact that the aisle is super narrow, so that the drink cart literally scrapes the arm rest of the aisle seat. It’s basically torture.

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Plane took off without me, my stepdad and a dozen other passengers. It went from an hour delay to boarding in 15 montures without notifying anyone. Names were not called overhead. Now I’m missing a day of work and stuck in Charolette overnight paying for a hotel and Ubers out of pocket

I arrived to the airport 2 hours before my American Airlines flight was scheduled to take off. I have TSA pre-check. The airport was crazy packed when I arrived. After momentarily standing in the pre-check line, the TSA agent said that I am not pre-check. Of course I said that I am because I entered my KTN number on all my traveling sites and programs. I had to get out of line and go back to the AA counter to discover that American Airlines did not add my KTN to my boarding pass. I had to call TSA to find out my number, then have AA enter it onto my boarding pass. The emblem would not load onto my boarding pass. By this time, I decided to use my Clear in order to get through TSA but the line was ridiculous long. By the time I made through TSA, I missed my 11:08am flight and was re-booked for the 5:30pm. This is after the AA employee told me I should have gotten to the airport early. AA use to be a dependable airline not I use them only if I have too.

Average - flew with Jet Blue internal and it was far more comfortable and better food and entertainment. Notable difference

Flight from SBP to DFW 1. They rerouted us through PHX 2. Delayed flight out of SBP for 3 hrs so we missed our connection Downgrade on rerouted flight. Back of the plane, center seats, didn't sit together 4. Return flight out of DFW same exact thing. Delayed, missed connection, Downgrade + they lost our luggage! A complete mess.

One thing is very important is you people not giving seat arrangement together to couple, senior citizen. You have to take care of senior citizen. Do not look about money. Money is not important everywhere. Make relationship strong is very very important. I like Etiyad air line out of all air line. Food was hot and delicious. Air hostess gave very good service, nice attitude, very good behaviour. I gave 10 out of 10 marks. Thanks Jivraj

I WOULD ADVISE NOT TO BOOK YOUR FLIGHT ON KAYAK. THEY SHOW BETTER FARES AND AFTER I BOOKED MINE, I FIND OUT THAT IT DID NOT INCLUDE LUGGAGE. i HAD TO PAY $800 TO CHECK IN MY BAGS.

Entertainment did not work from flight from Abu Dhabi to Kolkata. Emirates has a much better flight in that sector.

Ripped off and broken seats in Business class. Seats stink and need to request the staff for additional bedsheets. Crew if very friendly though

Boarding was quick and efficient. Ground staff were pleasant and courteous. Food was tasty, portions were good for me. Food containers kept slipping on the tray. Tray would look better with an anti-skid tray mat. I had the bulkhead seat which was very uncomfortable for couple of reasons. Aircraft is designed with no throughput to move across aisle to aisle. Passengers kept jumping over my legs to get from one side to the other to use the toilet. Secondly I had a mother and 9 month baby next to me. Mom had to hold baby for 12 hours in her lap as he did not fit into the bassinet. Half the baby was on my lap during the flight. Aircraft temperature was very cold - light attendant said it was the central cooling and nothing could be done about it. Movie selection was very poor old and outdated.

Crew member took too long time to take back leftover food plates from passenger seats. Food was nice.Easy excellent checking.Guy at checking counter was really kind and helpful.Made our checking very quickly. Leftover food should be taken back ASAP. Because in economy class passanger have narrow space . In the long journey like this, passanger have difficulties to sit with the plates.overall experience was good.

Crew did not cooperate… I just asked water twice for one crew member and she didn’t get anything.. and when I asked other crew member he gave me water and he was not respectful.. I kept Hindu non veg meal chicken .. when I get my turn chicken was not provided and then they gave me veg paneer and green peas curry which I don’t like..

Sits are very uncomfortable and food quality should be improved. Alcohol you have to ask and wait for more then 1/2 hrs. Don’t feel like to travel in Etihad. It was 1st time we traveled in Etihad now we decided we don’t want to travel in Etihad.

Short travel duration. However, I had placed meal preference while booking my air ticket but was given vegetarian meal on board. Food was okay. Not so great. Didn't like Spanish eggplant, cold chickpeas salad. No hot soup was available. Everything cold cold only.

Check in was quick and gentleman was very nice and friendly, during flight crew members were polite and attentive, food wasn’t as it should’ve been. Entertainment section needed to be updated i.e add new movies

Last minute flights from Detroit to Colombo

Last minute flight, train and bus deals

 
These last-minute flight deals are the cheapest flights found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours for flights from Detroit to Colombo that are departing in the next 10 days.
4/24Wed
multi-stopQatar Airways
25h 42mDTW-CMB
5/7Tue
multi-stopQatar Airways
28h 56mCMB-DTW
$996
4/24Wed
multi-stopQatar Airways
35h 55mDTW-CMB
5/8Wed
multi-stopQatar Airways
45h 58mCMB-DTW
$1,267
4/24Wed
multi-stopEmirates
37h 15mDTW-CMB
5/8Wed
multi-stopEmirates
35h 05mCMB-DTW
$2,377
4/24Wed
multi-stop
22h 50mDTW-CMB
5/8Wed
multi-stop
30h 50mCMB-DTW
$2,409
4/24Wed
multi-stop
40h 45mDTW-CMB
5/7Tue
multi-stop
45h 42mCMB-DTW
$3,991

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Detroit - Colombo Flights

Departure:

Detroit (DTW)United States

Destination:

Colombo (CMB)Sri Lanka

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Colombo - Detroit

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