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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Pu Dong (SAN-PVG)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Pu Dong 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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11:00 am - 10:50 amSAN-PVG
32h 50m2 stops
12:05 pm - 10:09 amPVG-SAN
37h 04m2 stops
$1,171China Airlines
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Wed, Oct 16 - Thu, Oct 31
11:00 am - 6:35 pmSAN-PVG
40h 35m2 stops
12:05 pm - 11:01 pmPVG-SAN
25h 56m2 stops
$1,191China Airlines
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Wed, Oct 16 - Wed, Oct 30
11:00 am - 10:50 amSAN-PVG
32h 50m2 stops
12:05 pm - 5:13 pmPVG-SAN
44h 08m2 stops
$1,205China Airlines
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Wed, Oct 16 - Mon, Oct 28
6:15 am - 5:10 pmSAN-PVG
19h 55m1 stop
1:20 pm - 5:13 pmPVG-SAN
18h 53m1 stop
$1,422China Eastern
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Tue, Oct 15 - Wed, Oct 30
6:15 am - 5:10 pmSAN-PVG
19h 55m1 stop
1:05 pm - 5:13 pmPVG-SAN
19h 08m1 stop
$1,457China Eastern
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Thu, Sep 5 - Wed, Sep 25
5:15 pm - 3:15 pmSAN-PVG
31h 00m2 stops
5:30 pm - 10:25 pmPVG-SAN
19h 55m1 stop
$1,632Delta
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Mon, Jun 17 - Fri, Jun 21
3:25 pm - 3:15 pmSAN-PVG
32h 50m1 stop
5:30 pm - 10:21 pmPVG-SAN
19h 51m1 stop
$1,633Delta
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Thu, May 23 - Sun, Jun 2
10:55 am - 5:45 pmSAN-PVG
15h 50m1 stop
8:10 pm - 10:29 amPVG-SAN
29h 19m2 stops
$1,668United Airlines
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Thu, Sep 5 - Wed, Sep 25
12:40 pm - 2:05 pmSAN-PVG
34h 25m1 stop
6:15 pm - 9:27 pmPVG-SAN
18h 12m1 stop
$1,945Air Canada
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Fri, Oct 18 - Wed, Oct 30
12:40 pm - 2:05 pmSAN-PVG
34h 25m1 stop
6:15 pm - 9:27 pmPVG-SAN
18h 12m1 stop
$2,000Air Canada
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Mon, Oct 14 - Mon, Oct 28

Flights from San Diego to Pu Dong - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Diego to Pu Dong 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 San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
When flying from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport, you should consider leaving on a Wednesday and avoid Saturdays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to San Diego, you’ll find the best rates on Mondays and the most expensive ones on Thursdays.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong 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 San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport is September, where tickets cost $1,362 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of tickets is $2,113 and $1,994 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport, 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 on the flight from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 44 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 72 hours, the cheapest one-way ticket from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport found on KAYAK was with Delta for $951. China Airlines proposed a round-trip connection from $1,171 and ANA from $1,382.

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February

High season

September

Cheapest flight

$733
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 12% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 16% lower on average.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Pu Dong

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Pu Dong 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 San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Shanghai Pu Dong Airport was $733 for a one-way ticket and $1,171 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    Yes

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    San Diego airport is called San Diego and the only airport in Shanghai Pudong Airport is Shanghai Pu Dong.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    SkyTeam, oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between San Diego and Shanghai Pudong Airport, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Shanghai, China Airlines or Delta?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Shanghai are China Airlines and Delta. With an average price for the route of $1,393 and an overall rating of 8.2, China Airlines is the most popular choice. Delta is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,790 and an overall rating of 8.0.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    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 San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Shanghai Pudong Airport from San Diego 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 San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    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 Shanghai Pudong Airport with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline. Booking your flights between San Diego and PVG 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 San Diego to Shanghai Pudong Airport?

    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 Shanghai Pudong Airport from San Diego up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to Pu Dong

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Shanghai. 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.
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8.3
Asiana AirlinesOverall score based on 576 reviews
8.2Comfort
8.2Food
7.9Entertainment
8.5Boarding
8.6Crew
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Flight attendants rude, they disappear for almost 3 hours not doing rounds to see what people needed. The laboratories were full of empty water cups, because they never come back to collect them.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Mar 2024LAX - ICN
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Flight attendants rude, they disappear for almost 3 hours not doing rounds to see what people needed. The laboratories were full of empty water cups, because they never come back to collect them.

The flight attendant, where kind of rude, there where hiding for almost 3 hours, without doing rounds to see if people needed water or pickup the water cups, the toilets were full of water cups, because they never come back to pick them up.

Flew on an Airbus 350-900. Excellent aircraft properly cleaned and serviced. Flight crew was excellent plane departed and arrived on time. The A350 has excellent air circulation far better than the 777. I would recommend Asiana to anyone looking to fly in a clean comfortable environment. This is my second round trip flight from New York to Bangkok via Asiana and I will book Asiana again!

Amazing service and fabulous syaff. Loved the jumbo jet too, comfortable.

I could not choose my seat prior to check in

JetBlue's check-in was great, but there was an in-flight attendant who was very rude and unkind. I didn't realize that the bathrooms were already locked 30 mins prior to landing and needed to use the restroom. Instead of politely asking me to return, she rudely told me, 'NO, bathrooms are locked! Go back to your seat!' The JetBlue flight was more than an hour delay, which made me almost miss my connecting flight with Asiana. I understand the reasoning, but the action they took to get a hold of maintenance was time consuming. It took them more than 30 mins to get a hold of maintenance and for maintenance to get started. The Asiana flight and crew were wonderful, in general. They waited for us who were delayed from the previous flight before they took off and were very kind to take my checked baggage's info. Seats were a little uncomfortable for such long flight, but service and flight attendants were great! However, my 3 checked baggages are missing! They're lost somewhere in the transition. I'm writing this review 3 days after my arrival to the Philippines, and my 3 checked baggages, where my wedding dress is, are all still missing! I and the CEB airport crew have sent multiple emails to both JetBlue and Asiana, and neither has responded to any of our emails. Although, I was able to get in contact with JetBlue's Interline Department who confirmed that the bags were turned over to Asiana without confirmation details.

The full flat bed was not that comfortable, hard and lumpy., too much space wasted with those bulky walls and divisions instead of making the bed 3-4 inches wider. The compartment where you put your feet is like a shoebox, poor design. Toilets of A350 are just too small, sink is too small

The crew was amazing and really nice. The OS on the entertainment system could use an update, though. It felt old and outdated but had anything you'd need to keep busy. I usually never use it anyways, but that did stand out.

Aside from a LOT of turbulence the flight was perfect! The flight crew was superb and the food was delicious!

The seats (legroom) are tight and chairs cushion is stiff (not comfortable). The crew was courteous, professional and friendly. There was no food / snack for this flight (very short flight, but still would be nice to provide some snack for the enjoyment).

Very good , the weather was terrible, but i admired the professionality and politeness and care from the crew, and the excellent contition of the plane

My flight to Los Angeles was canceled Had to book another flight and you charged me extra $500 Very bad experience

The plane was uncomfortable. I paid extra for more legroom but the seat was still uncomfortable. Other seats on the same exact row didn’t have to pay extra but still have extra legroom. I didn’t understand why I needed to pay $170 for. It was Iike China airline just wants to make money off their passengers. It was unfair.

It was a 2 hour flight to Taiwan. Lunch was served. China Airlines goes above and beyond for their passengers.

They were helpful, considerate with asking us for standby preboarding with our infant, gave us toys and excellent service onboard. They were always on time, even early boarding once! All our luggage arrived intact, and they even brought our baby car seat to oversized for us. We love China Airlines!

3 of the 4 flights had delays despite the weather being fine, but still managed to make all connections

Ask flight attendant for water during flight and she was a little rude get the water.

Baggage made it successfully to destination despite short layover. Appreciate that.

Staff were good and nice. There should me 3 meals instead of only 2 and snacks.

For a long-haul flight, the crew did a very good job of keeping the lavatories clean and the aisles clear.

There was a loud squeaky sound the whole time we were flying.

I didn’t not like that I could not select my seat and ended up with the worse seat.

The landing was bad and the hostess came two times and i was sleeping but when she served the person that nexts to me I woke up and she didn’t even asked me if I need any drink or snacks two times!!!!

Plane was late because of a mechanical malfunction and the food listed as available was not. Flight attendants seem over worked and under paid. They just done seem happy. And that can be seen in their faces.

Waited 3 hours on a plane to de-ice due to manpower issues. Waited another hour and a half once we landed because of a gate issue. Missed my connections. Created. A total of 13 hours of delay.

Great, on time departure, friendly and accommodating crew, great leg room, Smith flight

Plane was turned around due to fog half way into the flight, Delta did not properly direct passengers to stay on same flight and instead failed to properly rebook on Alaska

Honestly, I didn’t expect that I will experience this long time wait during the check in. There was only one person who was taking care of the passengers for the economy class and it took us to wait about one hour to do our check i. As a result we barely get to the airplane as the gate was at the end of the airport. That is totally not professional where one crue is working at the registration desk with economy and 3-4 crues are helping for the business class.

Like most domestic flights in the US, you are basically on your own with this airline when it comes to food, so be sure to purchase meals and drinks ahead of time or expect to arrive starving and dehydrated (like I was).

You need to be a hacker to get the (Free) WiFi

I paid $380 for my one-way ticket from California to Minnesota. The fair did not include online check-in. I received instructions from their app to check in at a kiosk. At the kiosk, the boarding pass would not print until an actual person came to verify that I had a personal item and not a carry-on item, On the plane, the person next to me was drunk and allowed to continue to order alcohol. United is garbage I’d rather fly spirit.

Do not like the feeling of being in the basic economy. Everyone should feel good no matter what.

Terrible! The plane was old and you are required to connect your own device to their Wi-Fi rather than have entertainment options in the back of the seat in front of you. The Wi-Fi went out during the flight and there was only one plug for the devices every two seats. Three out of five surrounding my family did not work. The seats and spaces under them were so small I could not fit my backpack, which I’ve always brought on flights and fit before no problem. The crew were unpleasant and patronizing.

Due to one crew member not showing up to work, our flight was significantly delayed causing us to miss our connecting flight in Houston to Mississippi causing us to be delayed by more than 6 hours and missing our event all together. Very disappointing. All because ONE crew member called in sick. United did grant us a $15 meal voucher, which was a small but appreciated concession that I wasn’t able to use because I ordered my lunch and paid for it before applying the concession, and the staff said it was too late to use it. Ugh! We also had a TWO delay coming back from Mississippi, but that was on American Airlines and it was due to weather, so not their fault. Anyway, not at all impressed with United’s handling of our flight and the HUGE disappointment of missing our important family event for our 90 year old mother. All that money and all that stress and emotions for nothing. Having to wait the hour to bring an employee from LAX seemed like something that should not have happened. Why don’t you have a local back-up? Santa Ana is not a little airport in a rural area.

Hated every minute of it. This flight should have only taken 1.5hrs but was delayed over 10hours. Now I am being told I cannot be compensated or refunded my ticket price or extra leg room, which I purchased but did not receive, because the airline is throwing the blame on the 3rd party I purchased tickets through and 3rd party putting the blame on airline. No one wants to help. They received their money and that's all they care about. Im going on 3 days of still trying to get to my final destination, had to cancel car rental, car insurance and hotel. Currently staying in airport until hotels open up. Thank you Lufthansa, Kayak, Underpricer and United for making this trip the worst ever.

Crew was great and did their best to make us comfortable and captain came out at the beginning to announce why the flight was delayed, weather situation up ahead, and kept us updated throughout the flight.

United WiFi is consistently unusable (it can take 10 mins to load a single web page). If you need Wifi to do work, be prepared to lose half a day of productivity.

Awful. I got stuck next to a person carrying a dog and behind someone with a dog. People need to board these dogs downstairs. The cabin is crowded enough with your pets

Packed in like sardines, very uncomfortable. Sitting the aisle my shoulder was rammed into numerous times by rushing flight attendants. Also flight was very cold.

the head jack on my seat didn't work and the power outlet didn't work for my seat

For the price we paid, we had a really good flight. The seats and bed (business class) was extremely comfortable. I have no complaints. The crew were very attentive and helpful. They spoke English and there were no misunderstanding although their English wasn’t perfect or fluent. You will never go hungry as there was ample food and drinks but their food for mediocre. The entertainment was limited to older movies and the wifi didn’t allow you to access some Social media. Apart from the above, it was a very pleasant flight. Would highly recommend them.

Cheapest option from Gatwick £400 cheaper than Emirates and Qatar. Entertainment no where near as good as Emirates and Qatar, but saved £400 so all good.

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

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 :(

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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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Shanghai found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
5/18Sat
2 stops
46h 08mSAN-PVG
$733
5/18Sat
3 stops
54h 23mSAN-PVG
$734
6/22Sat
2 stops
50h 36mSAN-PVG
$746
6/3Mon
3 stops
51h 50mSAN-PVG
$824
6/21Fri
1 stopDelta
16h 50mSAN-PVG
$951
6/22Sat
1 stopAmerican Airlines
32h 12mSAN-PVG
$959
5/18Sat
1 stopDelta
34h 32mSAN-PVG
$962
6/26Wed
2 stopsANA
24h 05mSAN-PVG
$1,050
6/21Fri
2 stopsAmerican Airlines
52h 19mSAN-PVG
$1,060
6/28Fri
2 stopsChina Airlines
33h 05mSAN-PVG
$1,322

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