$553 Find Cheap Flights from Des Moines to China

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Cheap Flights from Des Moines to China

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Shanghai
Shanghai2 stops$1,095
Guangzhou
Guangzhou2 stops$1,140
Fuzhou
Fuzhou2 stops$1,912
Xiamen
Xiamen2 stops$1,320
Shanghai
Shanghai2 stops$1,095
Guangzhou
Guangzhou2 stops$1,140
Fuzhou
Fuzhou2 stops$1,912
Xiamen
Xiamen2 stops$1,320

Book Cheap Des Moines to China Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Des Moines to China 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 round-trip flight deals from Des Moines to China

Tue, Jan 20 - Mon, Jan 26
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7:00 am - 10:45 am
DSM
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PEK
37h 45m2 stops
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3:25 am - 9:04 pm
PEK
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DSM
31h 39m2 stops
$1,031Multiple Airlines
Thu, Jan 22 - Wed, Jan 28
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7:00 am - 12:55 am
DSM
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PEK
27h 55m2 stops
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3:25 am - 11:23 pm
PEK
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DSM
33h 58m2 stops
$1,059Multiple Airlines
Wed, Jan 21 - Wed, Jan 28
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7:00 am - 12:55 am
DSM
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PEK
27h 55m2 stops
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6:35 pm - 9:04 pm
PEK
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DSM
40h 29m2 stops
$1,060Multiple Airlines
Thu, Jan 22 - Thu, Jan 29
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11:30 am - 12:25 pm
DSM
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SHA
34h 55m2 stops
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1:40 pm - 10:55 am
SHA
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DSM
35h 15m2 stops
$1,095ANA
Wed, Jan 21 - Wed, Jan 28
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8:00 am - 12:25 pm
DSM
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SHA
38h 25m2 stops
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1:40 pm - 10:55 am
SHA
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DSM
35h 15m2 stops
$1,097ANA
Thu, Jan 22 - Thu, Jan 29
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6:24 am - 3:20 pm
DSM
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PVG
18h 56m1 stop
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5:30 pm - 8:54 pm
PVG
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DSM
17h 24m1 stop
$1,141Delta
Thu, Jan 22 - Thu, Jan 29
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6:24 am - 3:20 pm
DSM
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PVG
18h 56m1 stop
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5:30 pm - 10:41 am
PVG
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DSM
31h 11m2 stops
$1,145Delta
Wed, Jan 28 - Sun, Feb 1
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5:30 am - 6:55 pm
DSM
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PVG
23h 25m2 stops
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1:30 pm - 12:52 pm
PVG
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DSM
37h 22m2 stops
$1,196United Airlines
Sat, Jan 24 - Sat, Jan 31
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6:54 am - 12:30 pm
DSM
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XMN
39h 36m2 stops
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1:40 pm - 9:24 pm
XMN
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DSM
21h 44m2 stops
$1,368Korean Air
Sat, Jan 24 - Sat, Jan 31
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6:54 am - 12:30 pm
DSM
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XMN
39h 36m2 stops
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1:40 pm - 9:24 pm
XMN
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DSM
21h 44m2 stops
$1,415Korean Air
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Des Moines to China flights

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

Which airlines fly non-stop between Des Moines and China?

Airline and price data is aggregated from results in KAYAK’s search results from the last 2 weeks for round-trip flights from Des Moines to China.

There are 2 airlines that fly nonstop from Des Moines to China. They are Delta and United Airlines. The cheapest airline for this route is Delta, with the best round-trip deal found costing $1,119 and arriving in Shanghai Pu Dong Airport (PVG). On average, United Airlines offers the best prices for nonstop flights between Des Moines and China.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from Des Moines to China?

The cheapest round-trip price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.

In the past 3 days, the cheapest round-trip tickets from Des Moines to China were found on ANA ($1,095) and Delta ($1,141).

Good to know

Low seasonSeptember
Cheapest flight$553
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 25% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 48% increase in price.
Flight from Des Moines to Beijing

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

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to China?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to China is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $1,751 on average. Morning departures are around 2% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to China is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,792.

Reviews of the top airlines flying from Des Moines to China

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Des Moines to China? 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.
7.9
DeltaOverall score based on 8009 reviews
7.3Food
7.9Entertainment
8.1Boarding
7.9Comfort
8.5Crew
Airline reviews

Lady Pilot was perfect in every way wheels up to wheels down communication, professionalism, excellent on time departure and on time arrival, excellent communication! Fantastic job with Superb attitude!!

10.0 ExcellentVenkata Krishna, Dec 2025
ATL - SDF
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Lady Pilot was perfect in every way wheels up to wheels down communication, professionalism, excellent on time departure and on time arrival, excellent communication! Fantastic job with Superb attitude!!

The food is terrible. The staff is wonderful. Comfort is good.

Left on time, a bit delayed due to headwinds most of the trip.

I fly Delta all the time, have Platinum Medallion status. But this route seems to have major problems with delays and seems to never leave on time! Have only taken it twice in the last two weeks, and each time it had delays of more than 1 hour... very disappointed!!!!

Getting to the flight was arduous and lengthy. The flight itself was good but the food option wasn’t a good selection. I need to do a Kosher option on my return. Flight crew were nice

Good seats in Main cabin, excellent service and excellent landing

My flight was cancelled with no explanation after I had already cleared security. I was given 4 options to rebook, only one being non-stop like I had paid for. I grabbed it. It was 4 plus hours later and then took off even later. Biggest complaint is that I booked early and had an aisle seat. They gave me a "window" seat in front of the exit row, so the seat did not decline. I weigh all of 103 #s and it was tight for me! For what I paid, I feel I was kind of ripped off. I think they should have given me the empty comfort seat for the inconvenience. There was no apology nor any explanation as to why the flight was cancelled. My guess is it benefitted Delta in some way.

Very smooth, on-time, and pleasantly uneventful flight. The team at the gate and on board were professional and genuinely courteous. The pilot kept us well updated throughout, and both takeoff and landing were steady and enjoyable without any drama. Just a good, solid flight. Thank you! 💗

Staff was exceptional! Everyone was kind, professional and friendly making the trip very pleasant. Thank you!

No lunch on a x-country flight scheduled for 10:50 am departure, arrived 5+ hrs later. That requires a black box label before you pay for the tickets. Worst, when I checked in online, it's specifically said that lunch was served on his flight for economy Plus passengers.

It was nice to have gotten up upgraded to first class with a meal on a three hour flight

Not great experience - we were super late boarding due to issues with aircraft. Then when we finally all got onboard and seated and they started taxiing out to the runway they just stopped then turned around and went back to the airport. Apparently the crew “ran out of time” to legally fly us. They mentioned that they were about 2 minutes away from taking off. I understand the rules and safety but kinda wonder why they would have bothered boarding us in the first place? Had to go all the way back and de plane and then wait in a HUGE line to get a hotel (this is somewhere around 2:30am) finally got to hotel by Uber (no shuttle after 20min so gave up) and they ended up putting us all back on the same aircraft at 10am next morning so got about 2.5 hours sleep. They did give us. $250 credit, but it was a São Paulo Brazil flight out of Dulles. The flight and everything was fine.

United overall experience is great these days. Airport experience was very organized. Staff on flight were great. App and information as good as it gets.

United have really come back. Airport and boarding process is clear and good, app and information also very good

They charged a fee for 1st bag checked. Others in same party were free.

Flight was delayed 8 times. We were sitting at the airport for 14 hours. We got 2 hours of sleep (if that) on what was not meant to be a red-eye.

The movies offered were great. Staff were very pleasant and very efficient.

After a delay at the gate, C3, at Ohare on Sunday, I left my Blk ski coat on the bench at the gate, lost! Please review my lob claim, thx.

Very bad! They kept delaying my flight and wouldn’t do anything about it

They brought an empty plane to the gate. Then a flight delay was announced for maintenance and waiting on a part. I was then put on a flight to San Francisco instead with a connecting flight to my final destination. Arrived at my final destination 2 hours late.

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