$420 Find Cheap Flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai

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Cheapest round-trip
$949
Typical prices: $1,120-$1,320
Cathay Pacific
週五 4/3週二 4/14
IAD - SHA • 2 stops
Cheapest one-way
$420
Typical prices: $620-$694
Multiple Airlines
週五 4/24
IAD - PVG • 1 stop
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Cheapest • from $949 (round-trip)
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Cheap Flights from Dulles Intl to Shanghai (IAD-SHA)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Dulles Intl to Shanghai 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 Dulles Intl to Shanghai

週五, 4月 3 - 週二, 4月 14
Cathay Pacific Logo
5:52 pm - 8:55 pm
IAD
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SHA
39h 03m
2 stops
Cathay Pacific Logo
4:50 pm - 11:26 pm
SHA
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IAD
42h 36m
2 stops
$949Cathay Pacific
週三, 4月 29 - 週六, 5月 16
Cathay Pacific Logo
5:59 pm - 12:05 pm
IAD
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PVG
30h 06m
2 stops
Cathay Pacific Logo
7:05 pm - 11:26 pm
PVG
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IAD
40h 21m
2 stops
$949Cathay Pacific
週二, 4月 7 - 週二, 6月 9
Air China Logo
11:00 pm - 11:55 am
IAD
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SHA
24h 55m
1 stop
Air China Logo
7:55 am - 7:30 pm
SHA
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IAD
23h 35m
1 stop
$952Air China
週日, 3月 15 - 週一, 4月 20
Turkish Airlines Logo
2:30 pm - 8:15 am
IAD
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PVG
29h 45m
1 stop
Turkish Airlines Logo
10:25 pm - 11:35 am
PVG
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IAD
25h 10m
1 stop
$952Turkish Airlines
週五, 4月 3 - 週一, 4月 20
Etihad Airways Logo
3:10 pm - 1:00 pm
IAD
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PVG
33h 50m
1 stop
Etihad Airways Logo
3:00 pm - 9:45 am
PVG
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IAD
30h 45m
1 stop
$955Etihad Airways
週四, 4月 23 - 週四, 5月 7
Etihad Airways Logo
3:10 pm - 1:00 pm
IAD
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PVG
33h 50m
1 stop
Etihad Airways Logo
3:00 pm - 9:45 am
PVG
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IAD
30h 45m
1 stop
$956Etihad Airways
週二, 3月 17 - 週二, 4月 14
Air China Logo
11:00 pm - 12:45 pm
IAD
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SHA
25h 45m
1 stop
Air China Logo
8:55 am - 7:30 pm
SHA
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IAD
22h 35m
1 stop
$957Air China
週四, 5月 7 - 週六, 6月 27
Cathay Pacific Logo
5:59 pm - 11:05 am
IAD
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PVG
29h 06m
2 stops
Cathay Pacific Logo
12:20 pm - 11:09 am
PVG
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IAD
34h 49m
2 stops
$957Cathay Pacific
週五, 3月 20 - 週四, 4月 2
Etihad Airways Logo
3:35 pm - 12:40 pm
IAD
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PVG
33h 05m
1 stop
Etihad Airways Logo
3:00 pm - 9:45 am
PVG
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IAD
30h 45m
1 stop
$958Etihad Airways
週三, 4月 8 - 週四, 4月 30
Multiple Airlines Logo
5:59 pm - 12:05 pm
IAD
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SHA
30h 06m
2 stops
Multiple Airlines Logo
10:30 pm - 11:26 pm
SHA
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IAD
36h 56m
2 stops
$982Multiple Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Dulles Intl to Shanghai flights

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

What is the cheapest month to fly from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai, 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 Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai is January, where tickets cost $1,129 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and August, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,828 and $1,664 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai, 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 Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai, you should book around 1 week before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 25 weeks before departure.

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Cheapest flight$420
Flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai Pudong Airport

When to book flights from Dulles Intl to Shanghai

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Dulles Intl to Shanghai 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 Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl Airport to Shanghai was $420 for a one-way ticket and $949 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between Washington Dulles Airport and Shanghai?

    Yes, you’ll need a passport to travel to Shanghai from Washington Dulles Airport.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai?

    On your way to Shanghai, you’ll fly out from Washington, D.C. Dulles Intl. You’ll be landing in one of Shanghai’s 2 airports: Shanghai Pu Dong or Shanghai Hongqiao Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai?

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

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai?

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

  • What is the most popular layover when flying to Shanghai from Washington Dulles Airport?

    Tokyo is the most popular layover city among KAYAK users traveling from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai?

    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 Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai.

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

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

    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 with an airline and back to Washington Dulles Airport with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Washington Dulles Airport to Shanghai?

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

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Dulles Intl to Shanghai

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Washington, D.C. 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.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Dulles Intl to Shanghai? 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
ANAOverall score based on 1090 reviews
8.7Crew
7.8Food
7.9Entertainment
8.6Boarding
8.2Comfort
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Lots of leg room in premium. Departed exactly on time. Friendly crew.

10.0 ExcellentJuanita, Feb 2026
LAX - HND
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Lots of leg room in premium. Departed exactly on time. Friendly crew.

Cabin Crew was excellent. They took care of everything requested. Flight was good

I was charged $200 for a 2nd checked bag, which is unreasonably high and feels like price gouging. Other than that the experience was excellent.

The ROOM was great. We would love to have it on all of our flights. LOL

I would prefer to fly with Japanese airlines over American ones. They have better food and service overall

United Airlines crew members do not know how to deal with emergency situation that caused our flight delay. For example, they should have asked the maintenance or seat belt repair personnel to come and fix the seat belt while they were looking for a volunteer to book another flight.

The pilot was kept warning about the weather terrifying us. The flight attendants were not warm or pleasant.

Entertainment and food is best. I love to use ana for a lots japanese movies…. Food was best

I couldn’t sit with my daughter. we are separate and both seat was not window or halway side. in the middle. if we sit together will be share comfort seat and more easy travel. this is bad.

First trip from Tulsa to Houston by air. It went by quickly. I watched half a movie and continued the rest on the next flight. Staff was considerate and helpful.

Was forced to check in my small carry on, even though I informed the crew it has very fragile items inside

This was one of the worst flights I’ve been on in years. I upgraded to comfort and had such an uncomfortable experience. The person next to me was oversized - which I understand - however, they took up their space and mine. I could only use about 50% of my seat space to not be physically touching this person the entire flight and there was no spatial awareness. I also could not use the seat outlet because their body was obstructing it. It was very inconvenient. Their body kept touching me repeatedly during the flight and I felt very uncomfortable. To pay more for an upgraded space and then not even being able to use it was highly disappointing.

No wheel chair as requested at Atlanta arrival on first flight.

Only freetext wifi was available in flight; browsing WiFi required payment. Since the seats had no in flight entertainment, Delta should revisit this policy on this longer flight.

Only water, tea or coffee served midflight, even to comfort seating. Man next to me needed two seats and took up a portion of my seat and Delta did nothing.

The flight was great as well as the airline staff

First class and monitors weren’t working for mine & my husbands. Eventually fixed, but quite annoyed as we bought first class. Also, No foot rests.

Prior to takeoff, the pilot told us there was a possibility of not being able to land and going to Portland. Well that happened, we took off and then did 8 loops around Spokane before the pilot told us we ran out of fuel and had to go to Portland. So for a 35 minute flight we have now been on the plane for 3 hours (boarded at 6:50 am and landed in Portland at 10:30). Then, we just sat in Portland's airport with no updates of when we can start heading back. All of a sudden, our pilots and crew just left, leaving us stranded in a different city and state. We continued to sit in Portland until we finally got a new crew assigned and boarded the plane (This was from 10:30-2). We then sat on the plane for an additional hour before take off because they had to count us multiple times. We finally landed in Spokane at 3:55 PM. So a flight that should have taken at max an hour took us 10 hours and we missed the majority of the recruiting event we went for.

It was delayed but other than that it was great.

Got on the plane and sat there for an hour before departure.

Wifi took a while to kick in and we had a maintenance issue that took over 40 mins at the gate in Washington before pulling back

Very good. Because of the delays with my previous flight, I missed my connection, but I was able to book another flight through the United app easily.

Was happy we finally got upgraded in 1st class. The seat getting old. The cushiness need some improvement.

Ineffective communication with United resulted in lost baggage. Their Baggage Tracing counter at MUC was shut down from 11:00-14:15 on my arrival. Undertrained, underinformed staff had me Running all over MUC to find someone to help me to no avail. Staff was rude, unhelpful, and unable to effectively use the systems they did have operational. They refused to contact United in any way or provide any accommodation or other resources while I waited for my luggage. This has destroyed my downstream itinerary. If they had even the slightest visibility I may have been able to reschedule/plan, but again, their staff provided nothing, and did nothing more than their website, which doesn’t even work on a standard phone browser. Miserable failure at all levels that weren’t associated with the operation of the aircraft.

Sat next to a one year old. She crawled all over the place and made me laugh.

The Crew and the food was the worst I ever had in Business Class. First they told us there were no space for carry on. It was plenty of space over our 2 row seats, we had to ask to let us travel with it which was accepted. They were aware that we had to run for the connection due to the previous flight delay. Have us one hour waiting for more customers and not even offer a glass of water. Then started the service and they started to serve other passengers drinks in business and did not offer any drinks until they serve our pre ordered meal and I ask for something to drink. I had to wait until they finished to serve all passengers until Inget something. The crew was the worts I ever had for Business Class in my life.

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.

Starlink wifi on the Embraer E175 is an excellent experience. I was able to connect and work from IAD all the way to approach into BTV.

7 hours delayed due to operational issues on United’s end. Basically laziness.

Short flight but an "eager to help" crew made the journey more enjoyable!

On time. Friendly and helpful flight attendants. The plane was clean. Having a wine available would have been nice.

Your staff was exceptional. Could teach the other airlines-rules on etiquette, and service. Excellent landings on flights, carried out by your pilots. Only complaint is long delay on return flight in Beijing, onto Vancouver.

Worst than I expected, crew was not attentive, meal was as disgusting , they didn’t even drink selections as they would to other passengers. I felt discriminated

cannot get seat information for LAX to IAH when check in in XI,AN

UA is ok. But check in was a very bad experience

I hate that you cannot check in online and when you are at the airport, there aren't any aisle seats left. Also, they could work a little on subtitles for their movies (not everyone is a native English speaker).

Nothing to complain of, the only reason I am not giving better marks is that I am used to flying with ANA and they are the top.

It's terrible that we can't do online check in because we didn't buy the tickets directly from Air china. It was not explained until I contacted Chatdeal and we could not sit together.

Communication between the captain/crew and the passengers needs to be improved.

Food and service are good. Bathroom was lack of lotions and cleaning. That should be improved.

My enetertainmnet screen was broken. Lost my bags. Almost missed my flight do to connection issues with (despite a request) ZERO help from crew. Food was edible. Potatoes pretty good even

Our Jackson, Mississippi to Dallas Fort Worth flight was delayed on 1/19/26.. This was changed to Jackson to Charlotte in the last minute because of this delay. This started some kind of disconnect between American Airlines and British Airways bookings. We could not go past the passport control in London Heathrow. I had to go to the counter and waited for more than 30 minutes to get a new boarding pass. Problems did not end there. Somehow our entire return flight was canceled by someone. I had to make several phone calls over several days to fix the problem – this was not easy from India. Looks like there was some kind of disconnect between two airlines or some agent did not do it right. I’m anxious to know what went wrong.

The issue was not with BA it was with the link yoiu sent fopr booking the flight

Loved the boarding option from Business class lounge, experience on flight was excellent, plenty of good food choices

Getting the boarding passes between the BA and AA apps was very clunky.

The airline was not clear about a new departure time so we got to the airport early anyway. The flight left early which was great because of weather. The check in process was very easy and staff were friendly and helpful. The crew was great and our flight was very good.

Awful it always is unfortunately is the only way to fly direct to london

I travelled in business class and was disappointed by lack of service, curt and borderline rude time of the crew and to top it off, all of my luggage was delayed. It was like pulling teeth to even report the missing luggage and recover it the next day from the airport.

Plane was extremely delayed, but not all of it was BA fault (some was). Worst part was lack of room - this had as much space as an Allegiant flight. I thought transatlantic usually gave you an extra inch or two, but not this one. Entertainment system sporadically worked and didn’t have great options. Overhead bins are old and tiny, not as good as aunties new planes.

Boarding was poor. All groups called immediately one after the other resulting in a long queue in the jetty/jet bridge. Seats were very hard and and did not recline on a 4.5 hour flight. No food was available. Plane was cold. There was no entertainment.

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