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Cheap Flights from Shanghai to the United States

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
New York
Newark1 stop$1,075
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$782
Las Vegas
Las Vegas1 stop$907
Chicago
Chicago1 stop$1,037
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$673
Miami
Miami1 stop$1,257
Boston
Boston1 stop$1,161
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale2 stops$1,453
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.1 stop$1,098
Denver
Denver1 stop$1,344
Seattle
Seattle1 stop$783
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stop$1,075
Tampa
Tampa2 stops$1,283
Houston
Houston1 stop$1,137
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$1,165
Honolulu
Honolulu1 stop$730
Philadelphia
Philadelphia2 stops$1,440
New York
Newark1 stop$1,075
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$782
Las Vegas
Las Vegas1 stop$907
Chicago
Chicago1 stop$1,037
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$673
Miami
Miami1 stop$1,257
Boston
Boston1 stop$1,161
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale2 stops$1,453
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.1 stop$1,098
Denver
Denver1 stop$1,344
Seattle
Seattle1 stop$783
Atlanta
Atlanta1 stop$1,075
Tampa
Tampa2 stops$1,283
Houston
Houston1 stop$1,137
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$1,165
Honolulu
Honolulu1 stop$730
Philadelphia
Philadelphia2 stops$1,440

Book Cheap Shanghai to the United States Plane Tickets

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Shanghai to the United States 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.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Shanghai to the United States

Thu, Jun 25 - Mon, Jul 27
China Southern Logo
6:25 pm - 8:40 pm
PVG
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SFO
17h 15m
1 stop
China Southern Logo
12:35 am - 4:15 pm
SFO
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PVG
24h 40m
1 stop
$673China Southern
Thu, Jun 25 - Mon, Jul 27
China Southern Logo
2:50 pm - 8:40 pm
SHA
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SFO
20h 50m
2 stops
China Southern Logo
12:35 am - 2:20 pm
SFO
-
SHA
22h 45m
2 stops
$694China Southern
Mon, Sep 7 - Tue, Sep 15
Asiana Airlines Logo
1:05 am - 7:50 am
PVG
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LAX
21h 45m
1 stop
Asiana Airlines Logo
11:00 pm - 10:05 am
LAX
-
PVG
20h 05m
1 stop
$782Asiana Airlines
Fri, Oct 9 - Tue, Oct 13
Asiana Airlines Logo
1:10 pm - 7:50 am
PVG
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LAX
33h 40m
1 stop
Asiana Airlines Logo
10:10 am - 8:55 pm
LAX
-
PVG
19h 45m
1 stop
$785Asiana Airlines
Tue, Jun 23 - Wed, Aug 12
Cathay Pacific Logo
4:50 pm - 10:20 am
SHA
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SEA
32h 30m
1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
12:25 pm - 8:55 pm
SEA
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SHA
17h 30m
1 stop
$939Cathay Pacific
Mon, Jun 22 - Tue, Jul 7
Korean Air Logo
6:25 pm - 11:00 am
SHA
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SEA
31h 35m
1 stop
Korean Air Logo
1:20 pm - 5:05 pm
SEA
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SHA
36h 45m
1 stop
$949Korean Air
Wed, Jul 1 - Fri, Aug 21
Korean Air Logo
6:25 pm - 11:00 am
SHA
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SFO
31h 35m
1 stop
Korean Air Logo
1:10 pm - 5:05 pm
SFO
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SHA
36h 55m
1 stop
$950Korean Air
Sun, Sep 13 - Sat, Jan 2
Delta Logo
9:55 am - 9:48 pm
PVG
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JFK
23h 53m
1 stop
Delta Logo
6:40 pm - 7:55 pm
JFK
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PVG
36h 15m
2 stops
$1,117Delta
Tue, Sep 15 - Tue, Dec 29
Delta Logo
9:55 am - 5:20 pm
PVG
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JFK
19h 25m
1 stop
Delta Logo
6:40 pm - 7:55 pm
JFK
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PVG
36h 15m
1 stop
$1,167Delta
Mon, Oct 19 - Wed, Oct 21
Cathay Pacific Logo
10:30 pm - 5:50 pm
SHA
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DFW
32h 20m
1 stop
Cathay Pacific Logo
10:55 pm - 12:05 pm
DFW
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SHA
24h 10m
1 stop
$1,190Cathay Pacific
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Shanghai to the United States flights

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

What is the cheapest Shanghai to the United States flight route?

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

The cheapest ticket to the United States from Shanghai found in the last 5 days was to Los Angeles, at $623 round-trip. The most popular route is from Shanghai Pu Dong Airport (PVG) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $623.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Shanghai to the United States?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Shanghai to the United States, 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 Shanghai to the United States is April, when tickets cost $354 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are May and January, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $682 and $678 respectively.

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Flight from Shanghai Pudong Airport to Seattle

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Shanghai to the United States

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Shanghai to the United States? 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.
8.4
Korean AirOverall score based on 1218 reviews
8.3Comfort
8.5Boarding
8.2Entertainment
8.7Crew
8.1Food
Airline reviews

The business class is excellent. I loved the food, and the crew was very attentive and professional. From boarding to arrival, everything felt smooth and well-organised.

10.0 ExcellentFiruz, Apr 2026
ICN - LAX
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The business class is excellent. I loved the food, and the crew was very attentive and professional. From boarding to arrival, everything felt smooth and well-organised.

AAAAHHHH... It was shocking in a very positive way, the attention to detail, the courtesy, the manners of all personnel on board, the constant honest smiling. You can see and feel they take pride in all they do no matter how trivial. The plane in general was very comfortable. I can't wait to do it again

Great service and comfort level. You can have more of vegetarian food options.

It’s great, long flight and arrive safe at destination

Everything was excellent as I expected. They also had a very caring crew. I had a headache and asked a Tylenol. The crew members kept checking with me how I was doing.

They were trying to get people to check luggage because the over head compartments were full but when we boarded there were lots of empty places that people could have put the luggage.

I can't believe they put my wife and I in the two middle seats! It is a very long flight and we had single flyers on either side of us blocking the way to the bathroom! There's no reason to not give one of us the isle seat so we could have managed bathroom needs and snacks with convenience. So I think very poorly of Korean air to put us both in the middle, I've never had that happen before and will probably avoid this airline in the future because of this. We tried to have them change it but they didn't so you pretty much lost a customer because of it.

One of the flight attendants stepped on my foot. I was on the aisle seat. A lady inside needed to get out. So Instood. Just then, a flight attentendant came wuicklybtheoughbthe aisle and stepprd on my sock covered toes. I let out a small sound. She stopped momentarily, but didn’t ask how I was just took off of the aisle. Never came back to see how I was. Fortunately, I was not really hurt other than a slight soreness in my toes. But I found that to be very negligent.

Korean Air is unlike any other major airline I have flown with. The grace and respect that the staff has from check in to de-boarding is unmatched. The flight attendants this time were especially wonderful to my five little children. They helped us rearrange to more suitable seating, brought our children’s meals, and patiently waited for them in the aisles when they had to use the bathroom. We felt so welcome and comfortable. I really appreciate the meal voucher when our flight was delayed. I am grateful to have had such an stress-free experience.

It's good overall. Flight was packed. Inflight entertainment choices were lacking.

The staff hold my luggage to steel and exchange my stub, i was very disappointed.

Felt like the oldest plane in Asiana Fleet. Screen was 5-6in only and no charging at all. Movie selection wasn't great.

Food could be better it was okay. Entertainment seems dated it was something but in this day and age could be a lot better.

I’d have rated Asiana good except an unfortunate incident in which I felt one of your employee didn’t really help us. During the first leg of the trip, the flight from LAX to ICN, I left my backpack on the plane. When I realized, I reported to one of your employee who promised me that it’d be taken care of, that my backpack will be there at HCM city. When we arrived there, HCM people had no idea and my backpack was still at Incheon airport who denied any knowledge whatsoever. I was left in the cold and felt helpless. I was very disappointed. I’d like someone to look into this and let me know.

I am thankful that I was able to fly using Asiana

It was great, but my bag was not loaded onto the connecting flight. I'm currently getting it resolved. If this isn't a problem, everything else was excellent.

Very clean ,flight attendants very professional,nice , Boarding was very easy

The aircraft was massive (A-380) and became crowded with 400+ passengers on board.

The plane hasnt left im stuck in seatle still my flight has been grounded for almost 5 hours

My luggage didn’t arrive with my flight. Flight was delayed by nearly 2 hours while we sat on the plane and I almost missed my connecting flight and subsequently missed the last train from the airport so it took me another 2 hours to get to my destination after arriving, Crew skipped me several times when offering beverages, and I couldn’t get their attention at times because they wouldn’t even make eye contact with me. They didn’t give me a form for disembarking so I had to go to the back of the line after waiting an eternity for immigration. Paid for on flight wi- fi that didn’t work for most of the flight.

Only beverages were offered to first class and I thought the flight attendant could have also served the Delta Comfort as well instead of sitting down and staring at her phone and walking past all of us to the back of the plane to charge her phone more. There was a complete lack of turbulence and was safe enough for flights attendant to walk around in the front of the plane, collect trash and serve a few people water and turn off the seat belt light. Also didn’t enforce people putting their seats into the upright position and allowed two passengers to remain reclined during landing. They seemed out to lunch completely. Usually my experience on Delta is much better.

The seats were really comfortable. Flight crew were friendly with passengers. Overall was a great flight.

Arrived early, comfortable seats (Comfort+). Mediocre food, poor wifi (intermittent).

Long story short, it was one of the better flight experiences I've had in some time when compared with other airlines.

Flight was great! This flight from Atlanta was even better than when I paid for Comfort from SNA to Atlanta.

Great crew, flight on time, luggage pick up a breeze

Was on time, normal boarding. The worst flight attendents and service I ever seen,, can't believe Delta can have such service. Bathroom was dirty and no toilet paper, paper towels and used toilet paper all over the floor, when I tried to tell flight attendant she didn't even let me to finish and turn around. Very rude. Wi fi didn't work.

Connection flights should be spaced out farther because too close I missed my connection.

Definitely a southern flavor. Cordiality was evident even though no drinks or snacks were served.

On time! There were plenty of airport employees who were able to keep us moving in the right direction. The crew on the plane were professional.

Seat is too small. Food selection is limited and often ran out of selectable item.

The go to HK trip will easily giving jetlag, but coming back to Chicago has no jetlag because of the time taking off matter.

Despite the crew's rough day, they were all very focused and friendly. The flight was too short for a meal, so no rating on that. Re. the AA app. It still isn't ready for prime time. AA works with Cathy Pacific for international flights to LA and the Aa jump to PHX. But the AA app can't find my trip and this can be problematic with flight delays and regatings at LAX.

The staff from beginning to end we're friendly and helpful. The food and beverages were quite good (but see the comment below). I also liked their entertainment options, as we'll as their frequent attention to the airplane restrooms. Here are the reasons this is not a 5-star review: - You have to pay for WiFi on the plane unless you have some level of seat upgrade. - CP sent me a warning that the name I entered to book didn't match my passport. True, but the form for entering my name didn't allow for anything but a middle initial. This lead to a lot of chats, phone calls and stress before finding out at the ticket counter that it didn't matter. CP has modified their notice to now tell you this key bit of info. - After consuming a chicken dinner they offered (Kathmandu to Hong Kong), I developed symptoms entirely consistent with salmonella, beginning about 6 hours later. There were some odd things about the serving of this meal, too. Our row was the last one served, and we were given a tray without the entree on it. About 10 minutes later the stewardess came by and said they only had one chicken meal left. My seat mate and I decided he would have the lamb and I would take the chicken. I think I lost. I suspect that this entree was left over from an earlier flight and they were scrambling to get the last row fed. My seat mate and I were the last two to receive our entrees. I am not accusing CP of giving me a contaminated meal - just that the onset and progress of symptoms closely match those of salmonella poisoning. I opted out of the first meal on the next flight 13 hours later, but was fine after that.

Good good, good seat, good entertainment system. Customer service is good but can be more polished if CX charges a premium price.

The worst experience ever! Lots of flight delays and rerouting that ended up doubling the total time. . I had to recheck my luggage because I was rerouted to Tokyo and ended up on ANA flight. I missed connecting flight twice because of the delay at Cathy Pacific. Additional stop added, rerouted to a different country for connecting flight and ended up in long waits and delays.

I didn’t use entertainment But everything else was of excellent quality

I liked the service. The touch screen needs improvement as well as movie choices.

My only suggestion is a way to not be woken up for food. … like maybe something you can place on you if you’d prefer to miss food than be woken up

After each meal was served I didn't see any flight attendant offer coffee or tea to the passengers after the initial drinks were offered. Other flights I had been one it was standard procedure to offer hot drinks after the meal service.

Referencing ANA'S service to Japan and the return on UA, the pillow was awful, the crew was not very attentive, and the food was bizarre and tasted okay. Whoever's idea it was to make vegetable tempera in a steam capsule should probably revisit that. Since it was the vegetarian option, it was my only choice.

Crew was great! Good meals. Had room to stretch out

Our flight was delayed 2.5 hours from Lisbon to DC so we missed our connection to Seattle that would have arrived at about 9 PM. The agent initially said we had to stay overnight in DC and there were no other options to put us on to get us to Seattle. While on board I discovered a flight via American he could have put us in but by the time we arrived in DC that was sold out. We were then put on a flight to San Francisco that was also delayed then arrived in San Francisco and our flight to Seattle was also delayed so we ended up not arriving until 2:15 am. Our son could not pick us up so we ended up having to pay over $100 to Uber home. This is the second trip with United that the flight has been delayed causing us to miss an evening in Las Vegas and we were given nothing.

Boarding was smooth and efficient. The only food was some pretzels, but it was a short flight. Not much to order if you were hungry.

Crew were welcoming, accommodating and they worked hard to find places for all carry on.

Packed flight, which makes it tough on crew and boarding staff (and the customers of course). But this was great boarding, clear instructions, etc. Traveling on the weekends are always fraught with danger as you have families and less frequent flyers thus more confusion. But this flight went as planned.

Destroyed my suitcase. Tired of talking about it. Cancelling my unite mileage plus account.

Read the fine print. This was my flight home. I booked my flight for the quickest way home. Had a carry-on and a personal item. Same as my outbound flight. Apparently I needed to pre-pay extra for my carry-on. When I checked in, I was told that I had to check it. I said I’ll pay for it, and was told that this wasn’t an option anymore. They said I still had to pay $50 to check my carry-on. I told them I’ll pay whatever to just carry it in as intended. I was not allowed, so eventually I paid $50 to check my carry-on under a plane that was half full, with overhead compartments that were even less full. My white carry-on suitcase was practically destroyed getting from Idaho falls to Denver to Orange County. The low price air fair was a bait and switch. Got me to the gate, made me pay extra, then didn’t even allow me to pay for a carry on. Not to mention that I paid the $8 for WiFi that didn’t work. All to get my suitcase destroyed. I don’t think I’m going to even keep my Untied mileage plus membership and card. Apparently, membership does not have its privileges for this one.

The flight was delayed, they didn’t even have water for the toilets or for drinks

Even through the flight was delayed due to storms near IAH The flight was great! The crew was so hospitable and professional

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